Syfy’s Defiance

The first episode of Syfy’s new makeup and CGI fest Defiance was not as good as I had hoped, but not as bad as I had feared. We start of with a family sitting is green field when they are shocked by an alien invasion.  This scene is taken almost frame for frame from the last season of Fringe.    We then fast forward 33 years to a world that has been terraformed, but not enough to kill off the original population, just enough to add silly looking CGI plants all over the place.  We are told that the invasion reached…

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The Witcher- Save Early, Save Often

The Witcher is not a very forgiving game.  It kills your onscreen persona, Geralt of Rivia, at the drop of a hat, often without warning and usually long after one of the games semi-random autosaves.  So it is a good idea to save after any major battles or even just every once in a while when you think of it.  Of course, that may be just me, I have never been that good at role playing games with a lot of battles. But there is more to The Witcher than whipping out your sword, not much more, but enough for…

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