Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD

It’s almost February! Courtesy of Morrell’s, a February 1942 calendar that works in 2026.

Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s | Games: Research and Practice The tale of the console wars of the 1990s, the stodgy, conservative, family-friendly Nintendo consoles waging an advertising war against the rebellious upstarts behind the Sega Genesis, has been told ...

My latest co-authored article with Megan Condis was just published in Games: Research and Practice. And it's open access!

Check out "Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s."

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college (undergrad):

The Rock Opera
History of the Great Lakes
Medieval Heroes and Villains
Studies In The Gothic Novel
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢

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Taught a whole class on these two (and the dog).

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Yourself, but as a cartoon.

"But that's the best part, old horse," said Ukridge, animated. "Unlike our ancient, debauched, *fiat* currency — all right in its way, I suppose, but no match for the future — cryptocurrency gets more and more computationally expensive to produce. They do it with computers, I'm told." "What's so good about that?" "Upon my Sam, don't you see it? Expense is value. Scarcity is value." I held back from wishing he'd make himself more valuable by leaving. "The dashed things can only increase in value as more and more people embrace progress. Everyone wins." "Except the people near the end of the chain," I pointed out. "And you don't want to be one of them, do you, laddie? Are you in?" I shook my head. "Disappointing. Tragic. Men like you killed the electric car. Look up at the sky in a month's time, old horse. You'll see the rest of us, those who possessed the big, broad, flexible outlook, waving down at you from Mars." He checked the time. "Shall we go to lunch?" "Let's." The diner didn't take Bitcoin, so I had to pay for us both.

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The sweet and always surprisingly emotional adventures of Babe, the sheep-herding pig, come to 4K courtesy of Kino Lorber

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It probably is (Live and Let Die and maybe Octopussy get close), but I still have a soft spot for it, and enjoy it more than Casino Royale (an objectively superior film, but I like my Bond movies like I like my women - a bit goofy, a touch too ambitious, but willing to try something new).

Yeah, it is basically Star Wars-ploitation. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

Incredibles Glasses GIF Alt: Incredibles Glasses GIF

Incredible, you say? #CasinoRoyale #HATM

When I learned CPR, the teacher talked about accidentally puncturing someone's lung with a broken rib, while still saving their life. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

The evil organization here was going to be SPECTRE, but they didn't have the rights, so it became the new organization Quantum, which was later retconned to being part of SPECTRE when they finally got the rights back. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

Agreed. I don't love the Craig Era that much, but Skyfall is one of the top Bond films to my mind. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

They sort of deal with it in Die Another Day, where Bond spends the title sequence in North Korean captivity, and it clearly does some damage, though Brosnan's back to old tricks pretty quick (though so is Craig here). #CasinoRoyale #HATM

It is unusual to have Bond not actually do the bad guy in, though there are precedents (For Your Eyes Only comes to mind), but it felt a little weird that he does nothing at the end here. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

Mathis is their French contact. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

I mean, that is basically who Felix Leiter is. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

It's also never as theatrical as in the movies - I've won more hands with pairs than I have with anything higher up - but its more fun to see a royal flush beat a straight flush. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

The movie intentionally downplayed the use of gadgets in the lead up, but then did this whole sequence. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

I whiled away many a summer night playing that with friends well into the night. It regrettably does not hold up, but then...what does? #CasinoRoyale #HATM

The CIA having unlimited funds raises more questions than it answers, though if you know your history, it makes sense. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

Following the Money: Ian Fleming and the Origin of Casino Royale In February, Artistic Licence Renewed visited Estoril in search of the real-life origin for Ian Fleming’s debut Casino Royale. We joined author Larry Loftis at the Palacio Hotel and Casino Es…

The setup for CASINO ROYALE is (loosely) based on Ian Fleming’s experiences as an intelligence officer during WWII, when he saw Nazi spies at a casino in neutral Portugal and mused about bankrupting them at cards. (Unlike Bond, he wasn’t that good a player.)

#HATM

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I guess if you are going to bring a knife to a gun fight, just make sure that it is a big knife. #CasinoRoyale #HATM

Reminder that Mads Mikkelsen is, in fact, the bitch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3eA...

#CasinoRoyale #HATM

The Illyrian Adventure

I never thought Vesper was all that weird of a name, owing to having read Lloyd Alexander's Vesper Holly stories in middle school. #CasinoRoyale #HATM