About J.F. Sargent

I read a lot and I'm very impressed with myself. You can follow me on twitter, if you're the twittery type: https://twitter.com/#!/JFSargent, or Tumblr if you're the Tumbly type: TheSargeBag.Tumblr.com

About J.F. Sargent

I read a lot and I'm very impressed with myself. You can follow me on twitter, if you're the twittery type: https://twitter.com/#!/JFSargent, or Tumblr if you're the Tumbly type: TheSargeBag.Tumblr.com

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5 Ways I Failed To Impress The Kids On the School Trip I Chaperoned

About a month ago I volunteered to chaperone a high school camping trip. I figured it’d be easy: I’d spend a few days in the sun, get some hiking in, catch up on Game of Thrones and, if I had the time, relay some of the wisdom I’ve picked up to the high school kids I’d be hanging out with. [...]

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4 Terrifying Animals (That Can’t Hurt You)

While lots of sites will tell you that animals like sharks, bears and wolves aren’t nearly as dangerous as everyone thinks, the fact remains that they can still mess you up. Heck, even rattlesnakes, who kill 0.96% of the people they bite, will still put you in the ground if you’re drunk enough to decide to play catch with one [...]

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The 6 Most Important Things About the Django Unchained Trailer

Whether you think Tarantino is an arrogant douchebag who makes terrible movies or an arrogant douchebag that makes great movies, there’s no denying the fact that Django Unchained is going to create a lot of discussion when it’s released this December. To prime you, here are the six most important details from the trailer. 6. Okay, So, the Race Thing [...]

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4 Gamer Behaviors That Need To Change Now

Video Games are now accepted as a mainstream form of entertainment, but no one seems to have told gamers this. As a community, we’re still stuck in the mindset of an unfairly persecuted fringe-group, and it’s really stopped us from maturing. That’s why, for the most part, we…   4. Acting Like Entitled Nitwits One of the more recent “controversies” [...]

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4 Things The Avengers Taught Us About The World

Marvel Studios’ The Avengers is breaking all kinds of box office records and setting the standard for all future superhero movies, but what is it teaching us about ourselves, and the world? Lots, actually. For example… Note: Fairly big spoilers.   4. JARVIS and Tony Stark Show That Our Relationship With Technology is Totally Different From What We Think it [...]

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6 Real Animals With Video Game Superpowers

Animals don’t play video games for a lots of reasons: the lack of opposable thumbs is the big one, obviously, but there’s also the whole “no higher brain functions” thing. But the big reason is that, for most of them, there’s just no reason to. Most of the stuff we do in video games because it’s just too ridiculous to [...]

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