Doc Destructo

Perhaps Reading Too Far In: Devils Never Cry

 Theme and Sincerity: Now in Electro-Metal Industrial Form!  

I’m going to be super real here for a minute, and not just in my usual performative sense, but just so we’re clear here: the Devil May Cry series was heavy influence on me in my teenage years. I don’t think I realized that until just now when I got the urge to write this. See, I used to be shy, bowlcutt...

Your Favorite Game Villain Means Nothing to Geese Howard

High Handed Discourse About the Nature of Fighting Game Character Writing? HEH HEH HEH. Predictabo. 

*thinks about shippukens*

There is no doubt that games have become more and more complex as time goes on, in the methods they have to entertain us, and the approaches devs take to engage us. The results have been uneven to date, scarcely landing better than a .500 se...

Better Understanding Weaponry: Rifles

Did you know that your definition of rifle as “a firearm with a rifled barrel” is archaic, and your pedantic insistence that it should be nonetheless applied to defining the role of futuristic directed energy weapons can go fuck itself? 

Correct yourself, nerd.

Sometimes the internet is a place where the adventurous can reach in and pull forth something wonderful to share. Sometimes, it’s a source for aggression that has no target w...

Sniper Elite 3: Big Dumb Nazi Stress Ball

“You can shoot them in their what?”

In Sniper Elite 3, you play the role of an individual whose name I couldn’t remember if I tried, a sniper and spy of the Allies’ Special Operation Executive on the trail of a Nazi General looking to deliver a superweapon, a no-joke land battleship of a tank ironically called the Ratte. The Ratte was an actual thing- sort of. It made enough o...