The abysmal writing of Temple of Doom and how to fix it

The author discusses their experience watching the Indiana Jones films, highlighting disappointment with most of them except for the third installment, “The Last Crusade.” They pinpoint issues with the portrayal of characters, tone inconsistencies, and lack of character motivation in “Temple of Doom.” The author suggests various fixes to improve the film’s quality and align it with audience expectations.

What colour was Napoleon’s voyeristic horse?

A review of Napoleon (Ridley Scott), a film that decides to sideline actual historical characters and events in favor of voyerism.

Control Zones Aren’t Needed in Kings of War

1″ apart from enemies? Why is it important, and where does it not contribute to the playing experience? Many games have had it – MESBG, Warhammer, WarmaHordes… For skirmish games they work as movement restrictors where otherwise movement is very free and allowing. This is important when the smallest piece of moving parts is so

New New Blood 2023

It’s a hot topic! The VTES Store (pl) has spoiled us the contents of the new New Blood expansion packs to the four most recent preconstructed decks for V5, which include Banu Haquim, Brujah, Gangrel and Ministry. If the leak was intentional or not, the store is way ahead of BCP for official announcments. In

KoW Battle Report 002 – Herd vs Undead

Ice for Blood Deep in the bogs pits and long lost underground the dead rest. Their flesh long ago consumed by the Circle of Decomposition, reaching an end to their purpose in the world of living, the bony remains of the deceased are blissfully forgotten. However, there are those who would not let them rest

Deckbuilding Brujah Debate

VTES is a hard game – hard on the details, hard on the players, and hard fought to win every single time. That is why it’s great to have local events and tournaments every once in a while when everyone just comes in with a new, janky thing, concentrates on the thing they do (most

KoW Battle Report 001 – Herd vs Elves

Will’o’wisps The Buckmarsh edges a field of barrows – a sacred place where souls of long gone flicker in the shadows, vengence in their eyes. In truth elves, clad in oriental garb and riding dragons who travel between the planes of the living and the dead, host shrines in that area. Barrow-bound pilgrimages often cross

Effort of Miniature Photography and Technological Contrarianism

I have been wanting to put up a permanent page for my miniature models for a long time. You had your forums, you have your Instagrams, Facebook still miraculously persists – but all of those are fleeting medias. Of course, unless you make an art book – a physical copy of your endeavours – there

Leading Armies in Middle Earth is a Strain on your Wrist

If you’ve ever played the board game Trouble (Frustration in the UK as I’ve learned), or Kimble as the Finnish know and hate with a memetastic fashion, you know what living through the game play loop of Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game (Games Workshop) feels like. Most of your time is spent on smashing a

Wednesday isn’t an Addams show

Firstly, this post is a test to see if the WordPress algorithms work for archival. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance everything worked out well! Very much unlike Netflix’s Wednesday. I ranted about the show after one or two episodes, before dropping it, on Facebook: While probably a passable YA fantasy show, Wednesday