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 Originally written 2/17/21, published 4/27/21 And what a strange movie it is. Just to throw some life into my very-quiet blog I figured I'd discuss some thoughts off the most recent Nicholas Cage movie, the direct-to-pay-per-view "Willy's Wonderland." Its runtime is an hour and thirty minutes, and currently costs about $20 to stream it on Redbox On-Demand, Prime Video, and several other sites, or about 20 minutes of your time if you decide to try and figure out how to pirate/unofficially stream the thing. It's ok. I think I'd be doing any and all readers a disservice even in just saying what *isn't* in this movie, so if this looks like a fun movie you'd be interested in seeing, then consider this as a spoiler warning. You should be able to know where to find this film, and here's the trailer if you haven't seen that yet, so maybe check those things out first. Last warning! Willy's Wonderland apparently ran on a budget of 5 million dollars...

Published by Obsidian Entertainment. Original release date: March 26th, 2015. Definitive Edition release date: November 15th, 2015.Price: $29.99 MSRP.  Current Steam Sale : $7.49.  Current Epic Games Sale : $9.99 (with coupon.) This article has also been published on Tumblr.com ( Mirror Link ) 12/23/20 Over the past week or so, as a part of the  Epic Games Free Game of the Week  promotion, I’ve picked up  Pillars of Eternity - Definitive Edition  for free and have been playing it on its Normal difficulty almost nonstop ever since. This being the second video game by Obsidian I have played (the first one being  Outer Worlds --releasing four years after  Pillars  had its original release), I felt it appropriate to share some of my thoughts over the quality and experience of this game, comparisons I have made, and some other miscellaneous observations. It’s worth prefacing this with that I have not fully completed a run through this game and hav...

Published by  Boss Fight Books , 2020  Ebook Cost: $4.95, Paperback Cost: $14.95,  Paperback + Ebook Bundle: $17.95  Originally published on  8/19/20 at willwritesablog.tumblr.com This necessarily won’t be a comprehensive review of Matt Margini’s latest book,  Red Dead Redemption,  but rather an overview of my experience in reading it and descriptions of some parts that especially stood out to me (and why.) At the beginning of the book, Margini makes a humble disclaimer that apart from two brief trips, he himself has not been to the west. He corrects the notion that this would immediately disqualify him from writing this book afterword by opening into his central idea; the book is about Easterners’ perceptions on the West, and is specifically about a videogame that brings these differences into the limelight,  Red Dead Redemption  by Rockstar Games. I give all this exposition because I have never played Red Dead Redemption (or its sequel), I ...