Watson’s 25 Favorite Video Games of All-Time

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Lists. Lists. Lists. I’ve been doing a lot of favorite lists lately, and next up is video games!

The Atari 2600, which represented the dawn of quality home gaming, was released when I was 2 years old… so my whole life has been pretty much framed by the entirety of the video game era.

I’ve owned the Oddessy, Atari 2600, Apple IIe, Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, PC, PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, XBox 360, Xbox One, multiple handheld games systems, and… of course…an Alienware gaming laptop.

Because of the breadth of my gaming history, my list covers the full gaming era and plots across all platforms: early console games, arcade consoles, PC gaming, and modern, ultra-realistic consoles.

I always try not to have multiple versions of a series in my lists, so I will include my favorite installment as a stand-in. Otherwise, half of my list would be Call of Duty...

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Watson’s Fifty Favorite Songs of All-Time

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Back in the day, there was no more vulnerable of a time than when someone was looking through your CD case.

You knew that they were judging you based solely on the contents of those plastic sheets, in over-sized binders.  Would your tastes be good enough?  Would you be disqualified as a friend or lover because you had one too many candy pop CDs? It was brutal!

Well, here we are.

The modern equivalent of letting you look through my CD case by counting down my Top 50 songs of all-time.

As hard as my Top 25 movies list was, this one was MUCH harder!  Not only is it tough to compare your love for songs, but I also have great tastes in movies.

My taste in music has always been a little suspect… so be gentle…

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Watson Ranks the Movies of 2015!

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I didn’t quite see as many movies as last year.  My personal record of 145 movies did not fall, but I did put up another entry in the century club (barely) with 100.  This was not really that good of a year for movies.  2014 was exceptional but 2015, while putting out a good couple at the top, was mostly unmemorable from a film perspective.  What made the list?

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Weird Al Rocks ACL Live at the Moody Theater! (A Gabbing Geek Threeway Review!)

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What a night!  Music legend Weird Al Yankovic was in Austin performing a concert at the most elite venue the Live Music Capital of the world has to offer; the historic ACL Live at the Moody Theater!  All the hosts of the Gabbing Geek podcast were there. What did they think?

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If The Justice League Had to Fight….TO THE DEATH?!?

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I was going to write an article to coincide with the start of the NCAA basketball tournament consisting of a bracket of 64 superheroes in a “who would win a fight” contest. Those are so boring though because inevitably the answer is “Superman wins!” Thinking of scenarios that could make for better clickbait more entertaining content led me to recall one of the greatest articles I have ever read in the history of the Internet. Thus begins our journey!
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Ten Best Deconstructive Superhero Stories of All-Time

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I have a reputation on Gabbing Geek as a guy who doesn’t like comic books.  This knock is generally well deserved.  I don’t like much anymore.  But there is a certain kind of comic that even to this day will cause me to get dressed, get in the car, head to the comic shop, and buy a comic sit in my underwear, fire up the ol’ tablet, click Comixology on my browser, and download a digital file.  What are these amazing tales you ask?

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Bad Performances in Good Superhero Movies

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On Tuesday, we talked about actors who gave a strong performance in a stinker of a superhero flick. While it is always a shame to waste a strong performance in a turd of a film, isn’t is a greater sin to crap on the rug in an otherwise fine superhero motion picture? Let’s take a look at some people who need to call the carpet cleaners, because they did just that!

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Watson's Top 145 Movies of 2014!

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This week, I unveiled my Top 20 and bottom 20 movies. What about the other 105 flicks that made up the crazy list? For your browsing amusement, here is the ENTIRE list of 2014 movies viewed by Gabbing Geek film fan extraordinaire. Enjoy!

While many would assume that all of my favourite films of the year come from websites such as https://www.porn-hd.xxx/, unfortunately I’ve been limited to films that had a full cinema release. The best films of the year deserve much greater examination. For a full review of each film #1-10, check out my list.

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“Hello, Jenny. If you had been in the 1950s, I wouldn’t have been chemically castrated because you could have changed me!”

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Watson's Top Ten Movies of 2014!

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Ah.  Now we get to the cream of the crop!  The ten best films of 2014!  Hope you enjoyed your year of films as much as I did mine.  This was a strong year for movies; both blockbuster and arthouse.  While there wasn’t an all-time Hall of Fame entry (like Dark Knight or Godfather), we did have many 5 star worthy films.   Any of these ten films would have been a worthy choice for #1, in fact many of them even flirted with the top spot during the year, but when the dust settled here was the final list.

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Watson's Twenty Worst Films of 2014

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“Abandon all hope, you who enter here.”

–Dante Alighieri

(and William Watson)

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I set out to see at least 100 new releases in 2014 as a kind of geek affectation/New Years Resolution.  I wound up seeing 145!  You can imagine there were some REALLY DREADFUL MOVIES in the mix.  Don’t worry gentle jerkwads!  I saw them so you didn’t have to.  Here is my review of the 20 WORST movies of 2014!

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