Jeremy Bent

Category: Reflection

  • Systems Have I Loved: Super Nintendo

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    Ah, the SNES. Stately in thy countenance, worldly in thy repertoire. I definitely consider the SNES to be one of the finest gaming systems ever created. System: I must’ve traded in my Genesis for the Super Nintendo, because I can’t remember owning the Genesis after I got the Super Nintendo. Clearly this was the right…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sega Genesis

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    At some point in my life (around 1992 or 1993), I garnered enough cash to pick up the Sega Genesis. System: By the time I got it, it was the late model Genny, or as it’s known, the “sexy Genesis.” I still don’t know why I would go for the Genesis over the Super Nintendo,…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Nintendo Entertainment System

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    Yes, I was a child in the 80s. Guess what? I had a NES. System: We lived just outside a much nicer neighborhood, where it seemed like every kid in existence had a NES. My parents, wisely, deemed that we were allowed video games, but they would never fund the purchase of a system or…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Commodore 64

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    In honor of the imminent arrival of my Nintendo DS Lite, I decided to do a series of posts on the ol’ blog where I go through my history with video game systems, from the first up to the DS itself. Without any further ado, let us begin a journey through the recent past.

  • Troubling to say the least

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    I worked with many smart, talented improvisers during my time with The Spin, a political improv show I was part of last year. One of them, a particularly incisive and well-informed gentleman, produced a documentary about the origins and consequences of global poverty entitled The End of Poverty?. It was a selection at the Cannes…

  • Battlestar-struck

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    I spent the majority of my time at home last month watching, experiencing the entire run of Battlestar Galactica. I saw the miniseries on January 2nd, and somehow I was able to watch 60+ episodes and a tv movie by the end of the month. I was aided in this by not having my normal…

  • Pure Celloing Satisfaction

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    Yo-Yo Ma had the look on his face that represented the feeling deep in everyone’s hearts: joy.

  • My Great-Grandfather Is Smiling In Heaven

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    I come from a family of notorious tinkerers. My great-grandfather, Mort Mason, was a lover of all things mechanical; my dad spent part of his inheritance in 1983 on a computer that’s outstripped by most modern calculators; and my brother has probably broken more computers than many people will ever own. Messing with things is…

  • Resolutions: Resolution

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    I took a look at my New Year’s Resolutions from January of this year, and decided to weigh in on my achievements relative to my stated intentions. I normally don’t make resolutions, but something spurred me this year to do it, so I thought I might as well comment on how they turned out. -Get…

  • A Better HSM

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    High School Musical, like it or not, represents an enormously powerful and lucrative brand for Disney. I’ve tried to find numbers on how much cash that the behemoth (set to pop with its third incarnation coming to theaters today) has brought in, but no dice. I did see that the combined budgets of all three…