Author: Chris La Porte

I woke up to a crisp morning, the clouds making their journey over the mountains to unknown lands. The campfire was already started when I made my way over to grab a cup of coffee. I took my time, enjoying little sips watching the birds dance with a lilting song above the trees. It would soon be time to mount up on Brego, my horse, and hunt for the day’s meals. Did I just describe my latest camping trip? Well, no. Mostly because I couldn’t keep a damn fire going to save my life, which I discovered is directly tied…

As a lead into Halloween, I wrote an article featuring some of the best Halloween appropriate episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Then there was a horrible realization: they were all Mike episodes. Not to say that’s necessarily a bad thing, Mike Nelson is hilarious, and I grew up with the SciFi years of MST3K, so it’s in my wheelhouse. There’s gotta be some love for the man you started it all though, Joel Hodgson. I began to make another list of Joel episodes perfect for your new Halloween traditions, but I got caught up, enamored even, with the infamous…

Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally upon us, releasing on Friday, October 26th. The anticipation has been through the roof for this game, especially for those who felt that the first was something special. Do you ever wonder how Red Dead Redemption did it? It would be easy to say that it’s just a Grand Theft Auto game placed in a duster and told that it didn’t have to bathe anymore. Yet, it’s so much more than that. There has never been a storyline in a GTA game that engaged my full attention the way Red Dead Redemption did. Let’s…

Halloween is just around the corner, and the lead up here at Nerdbot has been stuffed with spooky goodness. We can talk all day about what horror movies to watch, what not to watch, and even fill those hyper-specific movie needs. What you may not be aware of, however, are those sneaky horror movies. They linger in the dark corners of the theater…actually on the screen where movies usually hang out. But you don’t realize what you are getting into until it’s over. Sure, pop culture and the internet might tell you they are comedies, action, or even family movies,…

Here at Nerdbot, we’ve been sharing some of our creepy stories in the spirit of Halloween. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to contribute, honestly. I can justify the spooky things that happen around me. There’s a logical explanation for everything. Finding the truth usually breaks any wild imaginative speculations. I suppose being a skeptic is what brought this story about in the first place because it’s what allowed me to work in a mortuary. I needed money, the owners were family friends and wonderful people. I would get past the hardships of the job to make ends…

Halloween is all about dressing up like one of the Red Jaguars from Legends of the Hidden Temple (reusing most of your Global Guts costume to do it), going to haunted houses pretending like it isn’t the worst experience of all time, and watching scary movies. As I’ve been clear about before, I’m a wuss when it comes to the final thing on that list, which means I also hate the second thing on that list. I choose to focus on the corny aspects of the horror genre. For every terrifying movie monster, there was an equally terrible B-movie monster that paved…

It’s that time of year again! The leaves are changing in states other than California and the pumpkins all those people bought the first day they were sitting outside of Ralph’s have already begun to rot. Get those scarves you don’t actually need! Halloween is an exciting time for children and adults who refuse to grow up (including myself). I’m pretty sure I would dress up as Dr. Alan Grant, complete with neck handkerchief, and ask for candy door to door by myself if it was socially acceptable. Yeah…I might do that anyway. One thing I have come to terms…

Remember when Star Trek was the most popular thing on the planet? Do you remember a time when everyone was talking about it just like they do Game of Thrones or Star Wars? Remember when every single kid on the block was dressed in bald caps for Halloween, either to be Captain Picard, a Borg, or both? Don’t you remember it like that? Neither do I. I don’t think it was ever like that. Even when Star Trek found new popularity with movies that finally were able to appeal to a broader audience like The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek…

Video games have always been able to steal time away from you in creative and differing ways. My fiancee and I have been reliving our childhoods going through the catalog on the Super Nintendo Classic. So many of those oldies but goodies don’t really care about story whatsoever. I mean, Donkey Kong has all of his bananas stolen, and there’s a hell of a lot of bees between him and getting those back, but that’s about it. (And Diddy Kong does most of the work, but I digress). That isn’t to say platformers are better or worse than story heavy…

Star Trek fans are rejoicing at the recent news that the perpetually bald, yet somehow always youthful, Patrick Stewart is reprising his role as the iconic Jean-Luc Picard. The Star Trek: The Next Generation captain was a man of philosophical, ethical pondering who always managed to cap off each episode with a monologue that burrowed right into your soul. Oh, and if you gave him lip, he would suddenly burst into action like a shiny-scalped Rambo. With this kind of news, it’s easy to want to go back to Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) episodes (as of writing this, the series…