Category: Still Plays With Toys

Raleigh Marathon – 1985

Jan 30 2018

What a fun bike to ride.

This was a customization of a pretty boring Raleigh into something MUCH more fun. The old-fashioned downward facing riding position is absolutely hilarious feeling, you might think that it just rides like you are in the drops but you’d be wrong.

The big huge cream tires make the whole thing feel incredibly smooth, the color scheme being taken from Pashley’s Guvnor line.

I am going to really try not to slap cream tires on everything… but this bike looks so damn good that I don’t know how well I will be able to resist.

The Force Stumbles Out of Bed

Jan 04 2016

SleepyForce

Sigh.

This is not going to be a happy review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

I did not like the movie, hopefully that helps set the tenor of what is to follow. There will indeed be spoilers, but I will put them down in the second section of the review, where I start talking specifics. That section looks to have gotten siginificantly more… colorful… in terms of language as well, but I’ll provide plenty of warning before we get there, don’t worry :-j

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SPAZ

Mar 10 2012

SPAZ Logo

What a horrible name. SPAZ stands for Space Pirates and Zombies, and it is just a horrible name. I saw this game a few times on Steam, each time I wrote it off without even watching a video because I thought I knew what it was all about. I assumed that what we had here was another game capitalizing on the Pirates and Zombies craze that is now starting to become old news on the web. While that is objectively true, I thought that it meant this game was beneath my consideration.

How damned wrong I was.

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