Lost In The Woods

My name is Eric Woods and this is my little corner of the internet. A place for me to exorcise all the random extra thoughts crowding my head. Here I will review and critique books, movies, games, and more. Mostly in the vein of fantasy, horror, and science fiction but not always. I have a lot of different interests. https://lostinthewoods.blog

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The Golden Age of Pop Culture Jokes

The Golden Age of Pop Culture Jokes

Two reviews in a month? It’s almost as if I have discovered that I can devote 10 minutes of social media time to being pathetically and laughably just above the unproductive line. I’m starting to wonder if I have ADHD with the way I get distracted on top of the monumental laziness that seems to lie at the core of my ever expanding waistline.

But we are not here to discuss my failures today. No.…

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Fallout: New Arkham

Well… how time flies. It has been a little more than a year since I wrote one of these reviews. Amazingly I did not realize that until I just checked the date on Queens of the Mild. What have I been doing all this time, you may ask? The answer is simple and moderately depressing.

Nothing.

Nothing productive anyway but that is an issue that I can fix. Technically I have already started working on…

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The Right Hand of the Devil

The Right Hand of the Devil

As some of you may have guessed by now I have a less than firm grasp on the passage of time. Punctuality is not a trait I possess in any real abundance. Add that to the comedy of errors that this week has been and it is little surprise that it took me this long to write this post that I started promising almost two weeks ago. This post talking about what this game will and will not be. But how to…

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Real Plans and the Curse of Shitty Health

Real Plans and the Curse of Shitty Health

Well… these first couple of weeks of streaming have not gone as smoothly as I had hoped. The technical issues and learning curve and the need to revise my original plans I expected. The sudden violent health issues of the past week less so. Basically I got super inflamed (thanks to the weather and chronic issues) …which led to mass amounts of pain …which led to even less sleep than usual for this…

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Real Plans Part 2

Real Plans Part 2

Okay… my first week could have gone better. My health was not cooperative. There was a death in the family. And I may have absolutely bungled my timelines. So I have had a lot to think about over the course of the last couple of days as I adjust to my new meds. Some of that was semi-depressive soul searching that wouldn’t be of much interest to anyone not being paid $50 an hour to listen to the…

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Real Plans

After a few days of playing around, seeing how things work, and what people seem to respond to the best I now have a better idea of how things are going to go from here on out. The first decision here is that I am discontinuing my Subnautica playthrough. I love the game but that is also the problem. It is a very Zen game for me. I get lost in all the details and environment. It means that I am…

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First Night Lessons and Plans

First Night Lessons and Plans

So I accomplished my first night of streaming. Along the way I dealt with a number of issues including technical ones and my failure to take into account how hard comedy can be when you don’t have a live audience. Thankfully I can learn from my fuck ups. I don’t like making them but I can learn from them.

So what did I learn from last night?

1. I need to turn the gain down on my mic. The only…

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Rape Culture in Action

Rape Culture in Action Where in I tear into the bullshit choking this country.

Like much of the country I have been watching the Brett Kavanaugh story unfold. I have watched Dr. Christine Blasey Ford come forward with her story. I have listened to each accuser’s story. I have listened to every defense. I have done research and studied video of the people involved. All to come to one conclusion.

I really fucking hate this country.

It is clear that a significant portion of…

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Queens of the Mild

In which I eviscerate a man who I like's work. Sorry. Queens of the Mild

June of last year I published a review of Nicholas Eames’ Kings of the Wyld (see Expendable Fantasy Edition) and I loved it. It was everything I loved about DnD, humor, and fantasy in one package. The pacing was perfect for the story. The POV character colored the world in shades of dry, sarcasm. Most importantly it was fun. So when Nicholas Eames announced the sequel Bloody Rose I was super…

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Preaching Without Practicing

Come see the first in what I can only imagine will be a long series of me tackling hypocrisy in this country. Preaching Without Practicing

You know I’ve had the idea of this blog in my head for a long time now but I never really knew how to start it. Do I share posts of idiots getting flayed on social media? Do I try to give a thoughtful, almost journalistic air to it and try for some level of dignity? Do I write a rant and see how many different ways I can use fuck in a sentence (and it’s quite a lot I assure you)? If you’ve read…

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Ye Olde Weirdness

Where I discuss one of the strangest stories I have ever read. Ye Olde Weirdness

Look at me being all productive and not pissing out a jagged hellrock! Working on my first review since May – holy shit! Since May?! Have I seriously spent this much of the last several months drugged up and staring at a computer screen? Take this as a life lesson – constantly being on painkillers makes time fly …until you crash and burn into the harsh, unforgiving world of sobriety. Of course…

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Meat Pies

Meat Pies - a sample of my writing

You might be wondering “What the fuck is this?” At least people would be wondering that if I had anything resembling a fanbase rather than a random assortment of lunatics that accidentally hit a link to my blog. Well… I have spent the last couple of months sick and extraordinarily unproductive. The whys are spectacularly unimportant. Let us just say that my mental health has been working me over…

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Cyborgs Spies Versus Cyborg Psychos!

Cyborgs Spies Versus Cyborg Psychos! A review of C.T. Phipps' Agent G: Infiltrator.

Alright. Time for something a long time coming. Revenge. See way back last year a friend of mine suggested that I read John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows and I suffered greatly in a process chronicled in my 3 part Fuck You, John Ringo! series. Since then he has apologized many times while waiting patiently for my hate for him to die down enough to review one of his works. This man’s name is C.T.…

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Schizo in Stereo

I have meant to write about this game since I first discovered it but that intention kept slipping away. I’d forget about it for days on end only for something to remind me and then just as easily lose it again. My initial response is to blame my less than pleasant physical health but I don’t think was it at all. I think it may have more to do with my mental health than my physical. Which kind of…

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Hype Deserved

One of the most imaginative and visually stunning comics I have ever had the pleasure to read. Hype Deserved

Hello? Is anyone here? Anyone seen my health issues? This is usually the point in my work where they mercilessly work me over like I owe them money and leave me pissing jagged hellrocks. Seriously. Anyone seen them? No? Holy shit. I might actually be able to get some work done. To celebrate my temporary lack of spiky sea urchins of calcified suck working their way through the most sensitive parts…

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Vulgarpunk - My New Favorite Genre

Vulgarpunk – My New Favorite Genre

I meant to write this review a week ago and what I mean by that is that I had planned on starting to read this book before that particular point in time. Try to keep it to as close to a book a week as I can. As may be evidently clear by now I cannot keep a schedule to save my soul. I’d like to blame illnesses for this delay but no. I was just really fucking lazy. Today’s feature is K.C.…

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The Greatest Pizza Delivery of All Time

My much delayed return to reviewing is finally upon us! And by us I am, of course, referring to the 3 bored people and an alpaca named Joe that was mistakenly left near a computer that will see what I am doing here. All joking aside it has been a long road back to productivity. Mental and physical health should not be problematic at the same time but I seem to be getting things back under control…

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