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Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Astro A40 TR + MixAmp Pro TR Review

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For more than ten years, Astro’s A40 has been one of the most recognizable and beloved gaming headsets. But over the decade, the functionality has gotten a bit stale, and the release of special editions and color-swaps have outpaced the functional updates. The A40 TR + MixAmp TR (See it on Amazon) aims to fix that by enhancing the audio—with a new set of drivers—and a totally reworked MixAmp designed for streamers and pros alike. But is that enough to warrant the $250 price tag?

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Tuesday, 13 August 2019

The Angry Birds Movie 2 Review

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In a summer where the box office has been hit and miss when it comes to giving audiences what they wanted or expected, The Angry Birds Movie 2 is pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be. While fans of the first film will likely be satisfied with the sequel and there’s nothing fundamentally bad about The Angry Birds Movie 2, it’s unlikely that anyone who wasn’t already planning to see it will change their minds and buy a ticket.

The good news is that if you’re an adult taking a child to this, it won’t be an unpleasant experience. You’ll probably have sat through worse. Would you recommend someone go and see it without kids? Probably not. Another bonus is that at 96 minutes long, one minute shorter than The Angry Birds Movie, it doesn’t overstay its welcome.

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Monday, 12 August 2019

Legion Series Finale Review

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This review contains spoilers for the series finale of Legion, aka Season 3, episode 8, "Chapter 27."

It’s hard to know what to say about a series like Legion ending. There’s an impulse to wax nostalgic on the sum of its parts; to gloss over the bits and bobs that do not work in order to consider whether the plane was or was not well-landed. Does it all just come down to the ending, after all the complicated, wildly outlandish, and totally kookaroo stuff we just watched over the last three seasons? Did any of it matter? Was that entirely the point?

Legion’s goals were always simultaneously simple and wildly complicated. Series creator Noah Hawley wasn’t interested in telling a typical comic book origin story — he just wanted to have some trippy, existential fun with a bunch of incredibly game actors. This is why the story of David Haller appealed to him: the son of Professor X/Charles Xavier is the most powerful mutant of all time, but no one knows where his powers truly originated. Were they because of his father, the monster in his head, or the mental health issues that seemed to swirl around the lot of it? It wasn’t so cut and dry. It was a dissection of creative talent and mental health: how much of the control over these things actually belongs to us? In this world, the usual social binaries need not apply because our hero was actually a superpowered villain who really just wanted to be good. And so...our deliriously tripped-out journey into David’s mind began, and began again, and restarted, and got turned over on its head and sent on a quest for control and dominance between a “bad guy” and a “good guy” who were slowly trading places.

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The Terror: Infamy - Season 2 Premiere Review

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Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor — and, more pertinently, the mass internment of Japanese-Americans in the aftermath — there’s an eerie timeliness to the new season of horror anthology The Terror.

Beginning with a woman’s inexplicable suicide (and a number of supernatural occurrences best left un-spoiled), the story centers on a small Japanese-American community on Terminal Island. The premiere episode is rife with omens and unsettling atmosphere, not to mention family secrets. Though amidst its questions of guilt, repression and cultural (un)belonging, the series also picks its historical moment with uncanny precision.

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