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Video Game Review: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

Final Fantasy VII: Remake, in my opinion, ended on a very strong point in the game. It covered a core early part of the game, setting up that this was a series that wasn’t just reiterating the story, but was also in dialogue with the concept of remakes and reimaginings, and the expectations that come with that. It set up a sequel in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth that was more wide open, and which I was eagerly looking forward to. I was not disappointed.

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Con Report: Kumoricon 2025

Time for my second con report of the year, for Kumoricon 2025.

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Film Review: Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind

The Hong Kong movie industry of the 80s and 90s was one that was willing to create a bunch of action comedy horror films, with Sammo Hung serving as almost the martial arts film equivalent to Dan Ackroyd on Ghostbusters. I’ve covered one of the films of this era in the past with Mr. Vampire. Now it’s time for another, one starring Mr. Hung himself, with Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind.

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Video Game Review: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward was one of the games that was on my New Year’s Resolutions list for the year. While I haven’t quite hit the start of the next expansion, Stormblood, yet – I have rolled credits on the main expansion, and am partway through the patch content between expansions (including having done one of the new Raid series – Alexander). So, I’m at a pretty good spot to give my thoughts on the expansion itself.

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Vlog: What Lit SF Cons can Learn From Anime Cons

On an as-of-this-recording recent episode of Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz podcast “Our Opinions Are Correct”, they discuss ways that SF cons (implicitly meant to be LitSF cons) can be more equitable in how they’re organized and run – and they present a lot of solutions that Anime Conventions have been using successfully, but without getting into that anime cons have been using those solutions. I get into why there might be that failure of cross-pollination of ideas.

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