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When I was young I thought Source Tags & Codes was an all-time great album. But as I got older, I kind of mellowed on it. Even at the time though, I thought their followup, Worlds Apart, was bloated, overwrought nonsense. But as I got older, I kind of mellowed on it in the other way. It's fine. But I kind of stopped paying attention to Trail of Dead at that point.
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Another solid album. I never quite like their various solo projects quite as much as the gang altogether.
Three Stars.
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Continues to have a knack of making boring sounding chamber pop music that slowly burrows its way into my ear, like some sort of ear worm.
Three Stars.
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Alan Wake 2 is a great, weird, story that I might even dare call Lynchian in its "makes sense in the moment but not after you wake up"-ed-ness. It's also one of those annoying, inventory starved, slow paced, survival horror things. No idea how well it executes on that one.
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Marathon (2026) is an "extraction" shooter. You spawn into a map filled with robots and other players. You kill stuff (sometimes other players), loot stuff (sometimes other players). Maybe do some missions. Then you try to "exfiltrate". If you succeed, you get to keep all the stuff you found and bring some of it with you back into the next match. If you are killed (probably by another player), well, then you don't get to keep any of your stuff, including any stuff you brought with you. Some of the stuff is better than other stuff, so you'd rather not lose that stuff, but also the better stuff makes it easier to get even better stuff than that.
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