reviews Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/reviews Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:41:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 182200397 Guest Poast: A review of Mechwarrior 5, by Randale6 https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/guest-poast-a-review-of-mechwarrior-5-by-randale6.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/guest-poast-a-review-of-mechwarrior-5-by-randale6.html#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:41:15 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22303 LRFotS Randale6 is back with another excellent short guest poast, which hearkens back to the good ol’ days of GIANT STOMPY MECHS – which was not all that long ago, for those of us who enjoyed games like Battlezone II and TitanFall. Here, we have a review about a not-that-recent, but still fun, Mechwarrior game, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/guest-poast-a-review-of-mechwarrior-5-by-randale6.html/feed 1 22303 The Didact’s Best Books of 2024 https://didacticmind.com/2025/02/the-didacts-best-books-of-2024.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/02/the-didacts-best-books-of-2024.html#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:03:32 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21461 It took me quite a while to get around to writing this best-of poast, mostly because I was lazy about it, but I think there are several books I came across last year which are well worth mentioning. If you click on either the subheading or the title image for each book, you will go […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/02/the-didacts-best-books-of-2024.html/feed 2 21461 When the SDL commands it… https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/when-the-sdl-commands-it.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/when-the-sdl-commands-it.html#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:09:25 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20893 About a month ago, Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible, linked to an old poast of mine, in which I reviewed the original, initial release of A Sea of Skulls. As OBADSDL(PBUH) noted, I had a lot of very good things to say about that original release: […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/when-the-sdl-commands-it.html/feed 0 20893 Guest Post: Top Great Cheap Steam Steals by Randale6 https://didacticmind.com/2024/01/guest-post-top-great-cheap-steam-steals-by-randale6.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/01/guest-post-top-great-cheap-steam-steals-by-randale6.html#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:41:22 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=19616 I am very pleased to present another guest post from LRFotS Randale6, who is our resident game nerd. Whereas yours truly basically restricts himself to HALO these days – that’s all I have time for, to be honest – our boy has taken it upon himself to explore the rich and vivid world of Steam […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/01/guest-post-top-great-cheap-steam-steals-by-randale6.html/feed 3 19616 The Didact’s Best Books of 2023 https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2023.html https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2023.html#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=19539 This year was another quite slow one for me in terms of reading. I think I managed to finish off 11 books in all – which is not a particularly impressive achievement, given what I used to manage. It is clear to me that my ability to concentrate for long periods of time on one […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2023.html/feed 0 19539 Franchise: Unkillable https://didacticmind.com/2023/07/franchise-unkillable.html https://didacticmind.com/2023/07/franchise-unkillable.html#comments Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:08:53 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=18621 If you have not yet seen Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, or, as the cool kids call it, M:I7, I assure you, it is WELL worth the price of admission. I kicked my own ass to go watch the thing yesterday, despite quite horrid weather and a general sense of deep laziness, and […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2023/01/didacts-book-list-2022.html/feed 0 17219 The Didact’s Best Albums of 2022 https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-albums-of-2022.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-albums-of-2022.html#respond Sat, 31 Dec 2022 16:15:13 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=17175 This year was a pretty big one for new music, judging by what I saw of various bands that I follow across YouTube, but oddly enough, I didn’t really listen to a whole lot of new metal albums. I tend to be pretty snobbish when it comes to metal, mostly because I know what I […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-albums-of-2022.html/feed 0 17175 The Didact’s Best Books of 2022 https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2022.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2022.html#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=17159 My reading definitely collapsed quite badly in the past year as well – I actually spend much more of my time these days reading blog posts, articles, and various alternative news aggregator sites, rather than actual books. I also spent an inordinate amount of time on one non-fiction book, which I list below in the […]

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