We discuss the current anime we’ve watched, along with the recent passing of Akira Toriyama, before getting into our March Rom-Com, with My Love Story With Yamada-Kun at Lv.999
Anime Review: Nadia – The Secret of Blue Water
I’ve been making a *very* good pace at lopping resolutions off the list – after last month I was able to take care of beating Marvel’s Midnight Suns, this month I was able to finish watching Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 64 – Hostage Video
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 63 – Shooting Down Gunships
Polymega Unboxing and Discussion
I have finally gotten my Polymega after a couple years of waiting. I have video of my unboxing the unit, and a discussion of some of the issues that I had out of the box, leading to me having to have the unit RMA’d.
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 62 – This Jerk Again
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 61 – Loss of Trust
Film Review: Horror Express
Horror Express is one of those public-domain horror films that comes up a lot in collections, but I think is sadly overlooked in favor of films that kicked off a genre, like Night of the Living Dead, or The Last Man On Earth and Vincent Price’s performance in that film. This is a damn shame – as Horror Express has Sir Christopher Lee and Sir Peter Cushing sharing a tremendous amount of screen time, with the two actors getting to play off each other in a way that they never got to with Hammer, and rarely got to with Amicus.
Read moreMovie Review: Mission Impossible (1996)
When I first watched Mission: Impossible, and Tom Cruise’s first outing as Ethan Hunt – I was much younger – still in High School, with a degree of familiarity with the TV series from watching reruns on TV on Saturday mornings, or on cable on TV Land, and with a limited degree of familiarity with the spy or the suspense genre as a whole. So, I don’t think it worked for me the way that Brian De Palma intended. However, the passage of time has lead me to have more experience with thrillers, the spy genre in its multiple flavors, and some of De Palma’s other work (such as The Untouchables), which has lead me to a place where I think I’m able to re-appraise this film on its own terms – and I think it fares much better in this re-appraisal.
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 60 – Ash & Echoes
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 59 – Gondola Ride
Vlog: I’m Getting Surgery On My Face
I’ll have surgery done on my face on the week of the 14th and 15th, and will be recovering for several weeks following – so I’m going to talk about the procedure that’s going to be done (as of this recording – will have been done when this goes live).
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 58 – Sentinel Gauntlet
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 57 – Knock Knock
Still Recovering From Surgery
Still recovering from surgery – so here’s more Trauma Center Speedrun from AGDQ, this time from 2019.
Recovering From Surgery
I’m recovering from my surgery today, so I’m not really in a state to write anything – instead here’s a speedrun of Trauma Center, from AGDQ 2020.
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 56 – Last Code Segment
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 55 – FOB Hotel
Vlog: More Aftermath from Chengdu Worldcon
More information has come out about the appalling behavior of Dave McCarty and the Chengdu Worldcon committee, with a full report from File 770. I give some thoughts on the new revelations and next courses of action.
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 54 – Third Code Segment
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 53 – Tanks for the Assist
Manga Review: Cipher Academy
Nisioisn, the creator of the Monogatari series, recently ran a new manga in Shonen Jump, and which ran in on the app in the US – Cipher Academy. The series gained a degree of infamy due to a level of wordplay that lead to a change in translators partway through the run. Well, I’ve read the whole thing, following its conclusion, and I have a few thoughts.
Read moreOpening The Forbidden Door: My current AEW vs. WWE Dream Card
Earlier this week I had a thought come in my head – “You know, if you put Orange Cassidy in an angle with The Rock, having Cassidy do his usual ‘ignore-you-because-I-have-no-fucks-to-give’ schtick would probably work to have The Rock get angrier than he’s ever been – like white-hot-I-will-brutalize-you-in-the-middle-of-the-ring rage.” Not that I want Cassidy to jump ship to WWE, though I think the Triple H regime would handle him well. However, arguably, AEW and WWE is truly the last forbidden door – people go one way or the other but you never have them truly acknowledge the other, and have cross-programming material. So, I thought, if that Forbidden Door was to open, with The Rock on the table – how would I do it? As someone who, like Tony Kahn, has spent a fair amount of time playing not only Total Extreme Wrestling, but also Total Extreme Warfare and Extreme Warfare Revenge, I feel like I can put some good ideas out there.
Tony, Triple H, in the event you decide to read this, you have my permission to use these.
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