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There’s no beef with this fantasy line-up for the ultimate meat-free band. Vocals:  Rob Zombie He has been vegetarian since he was 18 then decided to go full vegan over a decade ago. Vocals: Anthony Kiedis The Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist was voted “Sexiest Male Vegetarian” in ’08.  He’s now a vegan. Vocals: Alissa White-Gluz She has never touched meat in her life due to her vegetarian parents, The Arch Enemy singer was a vegetarian for 20 years before becoming a vegan. Guitar: Brian May The Queen guitarist says he is now approaching veganism in a “gradual and sustainable way. Guitar: Kirk Hammet Metallica’s guitarist Kirk Hammet says he’s a vegetarian purely for health reasons. “I think eating animals is not good for your health.” Rhythm Guitar:  Joan Jett Jett says she’s “very close to vegan,” and trying to find different options to wearing leather and never using any animal products whatsoever . Bass:  Paul McCartney The Beatle went vegetarian along with his then-wife Linda in 1971. Drums: Travis Barker The Blink-182 drummer decided to go vegan after the plane crash that nearly killed him in ‘08. He says it has given him “endless amounts of energy.” HAPPY THANKSGIVING! The post Ultimate Vegan Band: Who Will Pass (On) The Turkey appeared first on RockinTown.

by Robert Spencer, PJ Media: The presidential election of 2024 was three weeks ago, but as of Tuesday morning, New Jersey has still counted only 91% of the votes that were cast (or something) there. California and Oregon have only gotten around to counting 93%. And so, several times a day, the popular vote totals […]

by Victor Davis Hanson, Townhall: Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education — once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most […]

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  It’s a bit strange to think of Madden Football in retro terms. Yes, the franchise dates to the eighties- but it still exists today, debatably as the most popular video game of our era, just not one we generally describe as a part of video game culture because, well, it’s football. And Electronic Arts is such an unapologetically corporate institution, the name doesn’t exactly evoke dedicated Apple II programmers. It’s In The Game is also clearly premised at least partially as an advertisement for contemporary Madden, with flash forward segments of programmers working on the game’s contemporary edition. Surprisingly enough, director Nathan Caswell is either a fan of retro gaming himself or at least an exceptionally talented documentarian, because the first episode crams a lot of information in about the early Madden titles, to the point that it’s surprising, yet not surprising at all, that the first episode only goes as far as 1990.   For awhile It’s In The Game is just the story of Trip Hawkins’ lifelong obsession with trying to make a compelling simulacrum of football, and mostly failing due to technological shortcomings. The documentary doesn’t shy away from the fact that the original version of John Madden Football for the Apple II computer is, by any modern standard, mostly unplayable. Hilariously, the main problem with the game is actually that it’s too fast. It doesn’t feel like football. It’s oddly refreshing that this documentary manages to get the whole team together and all of them admit fairly quickly without too much prodding that the game was awful.   Yet none of this is played for drama. These early gaming professionals clearly enjoyed their work and remember it fondly, even granting that most of it didn’t go anywhere. And a lot of this cohesion is pointed directly at John Madden himself. It’s In The Game makes a point of the fact that, while to kids of the nineties John Madden was just some random football guy, in the eighties he was a legitimate popular culture icon who turned down ninety percent of his offers. It’s surprising that John Madden ever agreed to the project, and even more surprising that he sticks with them despite the failures, trying to help them make the game better. Sandy Montag, John Madden’s agent, notes that John Madden was really big loyalty, and similarly genuinely believed the John Madden Football team was doing the best they could and if they couldn’t make authentic video game football, nobody could.   The real hero of the story ends up being Jim Simmons, who was able to put together the behind-the-line-of-scrimmage look that defines all modern football games. Although how the story got to that point is quite convoluted- Electronic Arts realized that football for PCs wasn’t working out, and they needed to try it out on consoles. Loathe to pay licensing fees, they straight up reverse engineer the Sega Genesis, and unlock its sixteen-bit power to create something very new and iconic in the video game world. There are all sorts of fascinating elements beyond all of this, yet It’s All In The Game doesn’t go down too many rabbit holes, staying quite focused on its mission of developing video game football.   It’s In The Game doesn’t really have twists- the presentation respects its audience too much to rely on gimmicks like that. But there are plenty of surprises- like how Joe Montana Football is literally a John Madden Football reskin with most of the best features stripped out. There are plenty of schemes like that which the John Madden Football team seems genuinely surprised they were able to get away with it. Hoodwinking Sega for a better deal and avoiding a lawsuit isn’t presented as them being cheeky, though, but rather just a means of dealing with their financial problems without selling John Madden out, because he’s the guy who made the project work, not Joe Montana.   That’s the first chapter of the story- the creation of John Madden Football. Both the bad version, and the good one. What comes next? While I only vaguely remember my gaming history around nineties football, I’m eager enough for more of these nitty gritty details. The post It’s In The Game Episode 1 Review: Amazon Prime Documentary Covers the Madden Franchise to 1990 appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.