We reach our second base camp.
Film Review: Golden Bat (1966)
When looking at the 1966 Golden Bat film, it’s interesting to see how much it innovates – if not outright invents – in the realm of cinematic hero tokusatsu. The main hero – Ogun Bat (Golden Bat) is widely credited as basically being the first 20th-century superhero, with characters from DC having parallel evolution in the US – his cinematic counterpart innovates considerably more then he invents, but those innovations are nothing to sneeze at.
Read moreI Am Running A Tabletop Game!
I will be running a Tabletop campaign! For Real Humans! Who I’m Not Related To!
Starting next month I will be running a D&D 5E campaign for some friends, playing through Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen. I’m not livestreaming it, and I’m not going to be giving the players names, but I will be giving some after-action reports here, since I haven’t run a game in a while, especially not for people who aren’t in my family.
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 24 – Checking Some Boxes
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 23 – Hit the Slopes
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 139
We return to Nintendo Power, with a N64-focused issue (with a recap of the N64’s showing at E3 ’98), and also a certain bird and bear.
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 22 – Ladies Night Swim
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 21 – Big Swim
Anime Explorations Episode 23: Bubblegum Crisis
NextGen #43 (July 1998)
NextGen gets a bit of a format and layout change this issue.
Read moreWhere I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 20 – A Few More Side Quests
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 19 – Friendly Crush
Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightsend Part 1
It’s the beginning of the end, as Bruce trains with Lady Shiva, and Azrael becomes more unhinged.
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 18 – Not Reticent
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 17 – More Side Quests
Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett puts a bit of weirdness into the urban fantasy genre. It’s not urban – not even close – it’s a very pastoral story. It’s not contemporary, being set in the 1800s. However, it’s definitely not heroic fantasy or horror, and certainly fits more into some elements of urban fantasy than it does to the other subgenres I’m familiar with. It’s also very enjoyable.
Read moreAnime Review – Texhnolyze
So, the second of the anime series on my New Year’s Resolution list that I’m done with is one I’m dropping – Texhnolyze. I did give it a reasonable try – getting about a cour through the series before I had enough, and because I had the show on my resolution list, I do feel it’s important to talk about why this series failed for me when two other Chiaki Konaka projects – Serial Experiments Lain and The Big O – were fine.
Read moreWhere I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 16 – Fellowship of the Monado
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition (JIP): Part 15 – Horrifying Truth
Vlog: Spectrum of Lost Media
I get into a discussion of Lost Media – and how being “Lost” is less a binary, and more a spectrum.
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition (JIP): Part 14 – Prometheus Bound
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition (JIP): Part 13 – Khatori Seal
Remembering my Kitty, Patacon
So, I’ve posted a bunch of pictures on the blog of Patacon, but I never really got around to talking about Patacon. I should do that.
Read moreMy Kitty Passed Away
In the past, when I’ve been tired, rushed, burned out, or just hadn’t been able to put a blog post together, I would post pictures of one of my two cats – Patacon – who basically adopted me as her person. My profile photo on Twitch even had me with her on my lap.
She passed away today. She was 16 years old.
