Yearly Archives: 2016


Artist Profile: The Agonist

Artist Profile The Agonist Country of origin: Canada Genres: Melodic death metal, metalcore Years active: 2004-current Current members: Danny Marino (guitars), Chris Kells (bass, backing vocals), Simon McKay (drums, percussion), Pascal Jobin (guitars), Vicky Psarakis (lead vocals) Number of albums: 4 Number of concerts attended: 3 Notable cameos on artist’s […]


Graphic Reviews: Overwatch

Overwatch Like many other poor souls before me, I have fallen victim to the allure of Blizzard’s latest game, Overwatch. As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m a huge fan of videogames but I had never gotten into playing online largely because my experiences with Left 4 Dead had led me to […]


A Bard’s Eye View: Artist Profile – Scroobius Pip

Artist Profile Scroobius Pip Country of origin: United Kingdom Genres: Hip hop, Spoken word Years active: 2005-current Current members: David Meads aka Scroobius Pip (lyrics/vocals, some beats) Number of albums: 2 (5 including Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip) Number of concerts attended: 0 Notable cameos on artist’s records: Travis […]


Digital Beard Stroking: Dalliances to Obsession, the continuum of pastimes

Dalliances to Obsession, the continuum of pastimes Dalliances, hobbies, obsessions and passion.  Which are you following now? We all have interest in our lives in varying degrees.  There’s things we’re somewhat interested in, where we maintain a passing familiarity.  There’s things we’re keen on, where we go out of our […]


Boxed Culture: The Min-Max Effect

The Min-Max Effect Often as gamers we run into people that play games hard. Unlike the casual gamer who  enjoys being around friends and enjoying a story, these gamers find fun in making the best plays and optimizing the decision making process. As much as I don’t think things are […]


Artificial Happiness

In this episode we find a new path, level up and use the mighty drake sword to slay the Black Knight… still rather ineptly though.


Graphic Reviews: Black Science 1

Graphic Reviews: Black Science As I’ve mentioned a few times before, science fiction is largely hit or miss for me. The genre is capable of imagining incredible (and compellingly believable) futures whose trajectory from the present is very clear to see. Just think of all the great science fiction in […]


A Bard’s Eye View: Artist Profile – Mirrorthrone

Artist Profile Mirrorthrone Country of origin: Switzerland Genres: Symphonic black metal, avant-garde metal, extreme metal Years active: 2000-current Current members: Vladimir Cochet (all instruments and vocals) Number of albums: 3 Number of concerts attended: 0 This is a new project I’m working on.  I will often be doing pieces on […]


Artificial Happiness the redarkining

We’re back! So here is some of the footage I was able to recover, we did skip ahead a bunch. In today’s episode we go hunting for the cheater swor… I mean Drake Sword. Also there is a higher level of production value so please let us know what you […]


Graphic Reviews: DCC Showcase – Chrissie Zullo & Cinderella 1

DCC Showcase – Chrissie Zullo & Cinderella For my final installment of DCC Showcase, I wanted to take a look at a fantasy series in which I have been interested for a very long time. One of the best fantasy series in the graphic novel genre is the Fables series […]