Author: Ashley
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My Favorite Things to Watch About Space
I’m one of those people who’s obsessed with outer space. In college I started watching TV shows like The Universe and documentary series like When We Left Earth, and ever since I’ve devoured anything I can find about the Apollo missions, other planets, spaceships, astronauts, and life beyond our atmosphere. And that extends to science fiction — particularly…
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My First Time with Battle Royale in “Apex Legends”
I don’t mean to be an antisocial gamer. But when it comes to my video game time, I’ve usually opted to spend hours alone, engaging in the meandering side quests and carefully-selected dialogue options of role-playing games. I like a good story. But in the past few years, I’ve taken up several co-op games with…
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Bandersnatch Review: Brave but Boring?
I really wanted to like Netflix’s choose-your-own-adventure experiment Bandersnatch. Part of the Black Mirror series — which features standalone episodes exploring all kinds of futuristic ideas and dark themes — Bandersnatch is about a programmer in the 1980’s trying to create a video game based on his favorite choose-your-own-adventure novel. The cool thing is that the entire episode is a…
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