I need to get the scratch for passage to the Greenway.
Book Review: Shards of Honor
Shards of Honor is the book that kicks off the long-running Vorkosigan series, though this book serves more of a “How I Met Your Mother” story – only in a case where the fact that our two leads will get together is a foregone conclusion strictly because I’m reading this now after there have been a slew of sequels based around their son, Miles. So the question then becomes, “How does this book hold up when you know that there’s only one destination it can arrive at?”
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Book Review: Iron Widow
When Iron Widow came up on the list of the list of rejected Hugo Award nominees in the controversy over the Chengdu Worldcon, I figured that I should bump the book further up my reading list (it was already there, it was just further in). Then it became a Sword & Laser book club pick, and I made sure to get ahold of a copy from the library – and I was not disappointed by this book at all, and I’m eagerly looking forward to the sequel.
Continue readingI’ve gotten my Polymega back, and while I’m not ready for a full review yet, I give some notes on where I’m at with the system, and a few more things I need to do before I’m ready for the review.
Video Game Review: Trails in the Sky SC
I sort of missed striking an item off my New Year’s Resolutions list last month (as I finished Halo Infinite – but did make a bunch of progress in Final Fantasy XIV), but this month I have nocked the third of 5-6ish games off my list, with Trails of the Sky SC.
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Anime Review: Sand Land
For decades, the gateway to the works of Akira Toriyama in the US has been Dragon Ball Z – the point where Toriyama’s opus shifted gears from gag manga with fighting to shonen fight manga. In 2024, the year in which he sadly passed, we got an anime adaptation of another work, one which I think serves as a better jumping on point to Toriyama as an artist – Sand Land.
Continue readingCommissioner Gordon and The Penguin reflect on their place in things with this new Batman.
Video Game Review: Halo Infinite
The Halo series, from the jump, is a series that is known for creating the illusion of large open spaces for the player to explore, especially through the various levels of the game that combine large driving sequences with areas where the player has to get out and plunge into various Forerunner or Covenant facilities. So, by all rights, Halo Infinite just going full Open World game should be the right call, right? Right?
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Film Review: Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me (+ The Missing Pieces)
When Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me came out, it was critically panned. Not unsurprising when a critical darling, an auteur who had been nominated for an Academy Award would dare to make his next film after daring to work in *shudder* television decides to make a movie that is tied in with that TV series. It lost money, it was roasted by critics and by David Lynch’s peers, burning him out on the Twin Peaks franchise entirely.
The sentiment of that critical establishment is not one I share – I’m a Trekker. I grew up watching the original series films, along with the movies for Next Generation – and appreciate the depths of both the series and the films, along with some of the ancillary works. Consequently, I would not dismiss a film tie-in to a TV series – so I came into Fire Walk With Me, and the edited-together Deleted Scenes of The Missing Pieces with an open mind, and was not disappointed.
Continue readingI mentioned, when discussing my surgery, I would do a vlog at some point about my *also* having gotten diagnosed with Sleep Apnea, and having gotten a CPAP machine. I discuss how that process went, a little about how the CPAP works, and the different kinds of masks I got.
We discuss the start of the Spring Anime season, along with some of the failings of Gundam SEED, before moving into Ippon Again.