We take on some, frankly, under-equipped Galgastani holdouts.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 79 – Execution Ground
Aurora Rising: Book Review
It is time for another review of a book that I’ve read for the Sword & Laser Book Club Podcast – in this case, Aurora Rising, by Alastair Reynolds (previously released as The Prefect) – currently my first step into his Chasm City/Revelation Space setting.
Read moreThe Heike Story: Anime Review
We’ve had a moderate array of various historical anime coming out – from Demon Slayer being set in the Taish? period, to the Yashahime series, much as with its source material in Inuyasha, being set at an ambiguous point in the Warring States period. What we haven’t gotten in a while is anything set in the Heian period – enter The Heike Story, an anime series that, basically, tells of the end of the Heian period, adapting the Heike Monogatari, and telling the tragic fall of the Heike through both their own hubris, and the machinations of others.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 78 – Alliance of Urgency
We rejoin the Wallister Resistance to fight off the Bakram invasion.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 77 – You Were My Brother II
We overcome Vyce and face a new decision branch.
Read moreVlog: Plans for 2022
This isn’t quite a proper holiday letter, and is instead meant to more cover my future plans for next year, and what you can expect on the channel.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 76 – You Were My Brother I
It has come to Denan vs. Vyce, one-on-one.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 75 – It Was Me–Vyce!
We learn Vyce has some common backstory with Dio Brando (backstory not involving Stands or vampirism)
Read moreThoughts on the MST3K Season 13 Picks
This past week, during the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon, they announced all 13 of the films that would be riffed on MST3K Season 13, which I backed on Kickstarter. I have a few thoughts on the picks.
Read moreNextGen #19: July 1996
We’re getting closer with NextGen to where we’ve gotten ahead with this issue of NextGen, which also has Chris Crawford’s column being MIA.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 74 – Have Fun Storming The Castle IV
We finally overcome the spellweaver, ending the fight.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 73 – Have Fun Storming The Castle III
Things end up going bad enough that I decide to start the fight over.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 118
Not a lot of games this issue, as we have a bit of a lull in the N64 release schedule.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 72 – Have Fun Storming The Castle II
The fight continues to go increasingly more pear-shaped.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep 71 – Have Fun Storming The Castle I
We launch our rescue attempt and have a bit of a rough start.
Read moreNextGen Magazine #18: June, 1996
Well, we fell behind on NextGen again – now it’s time to get caught up.
Read more“On Your Mark” – Thoughs on Miyazaki’s Lost Short
“On Your Mark” is an un-short in the filmography of Studio Ghibli in general and Hayao Miyazaki in particular. Removed from the official Ghibli discography after Aska of Chage & Aska was arrested for Drug Possession (Estacy and Stimulants), the film has become one of those things that’s only really available via bootlegs now (much as, apparently, Chage and Aska’s discography). I saw it once when I was in High School, in my school’s anime club, and I never got around to re-watching it until recently, and I’d like to give some quick thoughts.
Read more5 Things About Living With Autism In A Pandemic
I have a video scheduled to go up next month looking back at the past couple years, and giving my thoughts on living with Autism through those two years, and everything that happened with them. This is a separate, more granular listicle, talking about small, granular, little things, that I observed about life in the pandemic – while living with Autism.
Read moreThoughts on the OryCon Hiatus
In 2021, after OryCon 42, the event is planning to go on hiatus until – minimum 2023 – after announcing an indefinite hiatus. This means, for at least next year, possibly longer if they don’t get volunteers, Oregon will be without a Lit-SF convention. As OryCon is the first lit-SF convention I went to, the convention that caused me to get started on my fanzine, and where I made several people I consider to be good Con-Friends, I have some thoughts about this.
Read moreBreaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightfall, Act 10
Jean-Paul prepares to take on Bane.
Read moreCopellion Manga – Why I Dropped It
It’s been a while since I dropped a manga, and much as when I reviewed Night Head 2041 after having dropped it, it feels appropriate to discuss Copellion for the same reason – particularly since I made it over halfway through the series (with under 100 chapters to go before finishing it) before I had enough.
Read moreMy Hero Academia Manga – Caught Up!
I’ve finally gotten caught up on the My Hero Academia Manga in the Shonen Jump app, and want to give my thoughts on where the manga is now. As a warning – this post will contain spoilers for content after the conclusion of season 5, up to where the manga is now and will include speculation on what will be covered in Season 6. Spoilers will begin below the cut.
Read moreYour Reminder To Support Desert Bus
I’m taking a bit of a break this week from the Let’s Play because this week is Desert Bus For Hope – the annual stream-a-thon by LoadingReadyRun and company to support Child’s Play, which helps kids who are in extended hospital care and in domestic violence shelters. Go watch the stream, because they’re funny, and donate at DesertBus.org to help kids!
Fena: Pirate Princess – Anime Review
Fena: Pirate Princess is the first co-production in a while between Adult Swim/Cartoon Network and an anime studio (in this case, Production IG), possibly the first major series since the second season of The Big O. With an animation style and plot that feels like it’s meant to evoke Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water and The Mysterious Cities of Gold, while leaning into the “anime-ness” in a way that feels similar to Avatar: The Last Airbender, except in the sense of an anime studio looking at Avatar and going, “We can do this.” The question then is – can they do this?
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