Word: underground
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...those of us who have spent countless hours hunched over a computer in total darkness, walking through narrow underground halls accompanied only by an image of a machine gun in the bottom right corner of the screen, the announcement that the “Doom” videogame series had been converted into a movie was news indeed. For those who are a little rusty on their computer game history (or are not complete dorks), “Doom” popularized the “first-person shooter” style, in which you see through the eyes...
...GOING UNDERGROUND...
...Underground activities inevitably change character when thrust into the limelight. Comedy Central made remote-controlled fighting robots famous with its show Battlebots, and in doing so contributed to the rapid burnout of the sport. Snowboarders lost their counterculture mystique, and their boards are more plastered with corporate logos than your average NASCAR racer. And baseketball? Don’t even get us started. Beirut is facing the same fate. Lebanon is being slowly Westernized despite continuing political strife, and it’s character is gradually changing under the weight of French and American corporate interests. Stores from Starbucks...
Every day. I would have been a marine biologist. But I still dance. In my home. And in underground clubs where you don't have to dress up. I like to go in sneakers...
...evil cleric’s quest for world domination and the efforts of its three teen heroes to stop him. Taylor’s wicked paralysis-inducing beasts, called Varrigals, come at Taylor’s boy hero like the Death Eaters that attack Potter from Azkaban. And the underground caves, which set the scene for many of the battles, are reminiscent of the tunnels beneath Hogwarts, Potter’s boarding school. But though Taylor rolls out a host of fantastic and terrifying enemies, his inability to ground the reader with any sense of who the main characters?...