Category: Opinion Pieces
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Report Card for the Summer Showcases
Pardon our radio silence for the last couple of weeks, but we at NerdCrash were pretty busy reviewing all of the Summer Showcases, not to mention vacations and other writing projects. With that said, the pair of us are ready to deliver our thoughts on the multiple announcements and trailers of the games that will…
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Still the Queen: Looking Back on Buffy 25 Years Later
While it has been rumored for years (and still isn’t confirmed), talks of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot are making the rounds once again. In an era where nearly everything from the 80s has seen a reboot, it’s inevitable that we’ll be seeing the 90s nostalgia wave soon, which will have to include this…
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The Prop Oscars
Around this time every year, we sit down and watch a lot of famous people pat each other on the back and give out awards of questionable distribution to each other in a ritual called The Oscars. It’s a great time to go over the past year or so of film and reward and the…
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What’s a Dragon?
Before we get into it, fantasy covers a number of subgenres, and some of you may accuse me of tunnel visioning on epic fantasy today. This is true, and I am largely using fantasy as a shorthand for epic fantasy in this article because it doesn’t do for us to get lost in the hangups…
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Media Literacy Part 1: The Pitfalls of Player Interaction
Okay so two things before we get started today. First, this has a part one in the title not because I am planning another series, but because media literacy is a big topic I may want to revisit in the future and am covering my bases because we are absolutely not going to hit everything…
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Episodic Stories, Serialization, Streaming, and the Airport Novel
One of the more fascinating shifts in television in recent years is the slow drift towards shorter, more serialized plotlines. We still have the odd sitcom (those will never die), but most series are trending towards both more focused stories, and shorter stories. The change can be seen across media aimed at all age groups.…
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The Decline of Hollywood: The Culture War
As humans, we naturally have different beliefs, and we clash over them. We argue about what is right and wrong, over what is better and what is worse. But in the end, we move on because everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. That is the whole point of being a part of a democracy.…
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The Decline of Hollywood: Trends of Failure in 2023
Between the many box office failures and the writers’ and actors’ strike, 2023 wasn’t a good year for Hollywood. The capital of movies has been creatively bankrupt for years as production companies have been focused on remakes and continuations of established franchises. Occasionally, these movies take the established fan favorites and add a twist to…
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Nick’s Best of 2023
First of all, a thank you to the eight people who come back and read this blog every week. It’s been a fun year, and we appreciate your willingness to indulge every random thought that enters our heads. This is an awards post just like Tristan’s with a few minor changes. I’m insistent on sticking…
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Tristan’s Best of 2023 Awards
It is now officially 2024, first of all happy New Year and thank you for supporting Nick and I in our nerdy venture of this blog. We have officially reached our one-year anniversary of NerdCrash and we thank you for sticking with us. To celebrate the new year I want to have a list of…
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