Category: News
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Rebel Replay Podcast: The Rebel Has Landed
Welcome to Season 2 of the Rebel Replay Podcast! We are in our opening a brick and mortar store era and here to tell you about it. Ryan and Molly interview each other about the experience of becoming store owners.
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Got Jokes?
The Joker is a tough role to play. Every iteration brings something new and unique to the character. But who does it best? Leto, Ledger, Nicholson, Romero, Phoenix, or Hamill? Stay focused. This is no laughing matter. “I’m not going to kill you. I’m just going to hurt you really, really bad.” Sigh. Let’s get…
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Eras: What Happened to Decades ?
50s Motown. 60s folk rock. 70s disco. 80s pop. 90s grunge. 00s… Wait, hold on. 00s… Ok, maybe that’s an anomaly. 10s… 20s? What happened to the specific sound of the decades? If someone says “play some 80s music” you know exactly what to do. Or do you? In response to that query, you might fire up some LL…
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Top 5 Official Game Controllers
Great games can be ruined with bad controls, and an average meh game can be made great with an inventive controller. Need proof? Imagine playing Wii Sports with a standard controller or trying to play Halo with an Atari joystick. Innovative controllers have always been part of gaming with varying degrees of success. When Nintendo…
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Pardon the interruption.
I wanted to rewatch Iron Man, the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s been a while since I’ve seen any of the Marvel movies and I wanted to begin with the one that started it all way back in 2008 and be transported to a time when Marvel was taking its baby steps…
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What is Rebel Replay?
A movement. An experience. A community. Streaming promised us the world. All our music, movies, and games at the touch of our fingers. Easy access and low prices. But it was lie. It was always a lie. We were tricked, bamboozled, and flim-flammed into getting rid of our collections. VHS tapes in dumpsters, CD collections…
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Replay IRL
I love that I am writing this post on Groundhog Day, a holiday made famous by the 1993 film featuring Bill Murray and the real star, ingenue Punxsutawney Phil, the incomparable groundhog with whom Bill Murray’s character Phil Conners shares his name. Groundhog Day is a movie about becoming incrementally better. It asks us, if…