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OVA review: Yuru Camp Specials: Survival Camp, Tall-Tale Camp

Isn’t that a mouthful of a title, and especially for another set of Yuru Camp spinoff episodes that total about 18 minutes this time. But they’re also both worth…

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Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Richard III

Look up a list of the top five most controversial kings of England and you’ll probably find something among all the crap and detritus of the internet with…

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First impressions of Persona 3 Reload

Well here I am. My pointless life continues on and a game returns from 17 years in my past to visit me again in a new form. I…

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Behind the curtain

Now here’s a hard post to write. The hardest I’ve had to write on this site, probably, even if there’s harder stuff on my other one I never…

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More YouTube stuff to fill your hours

All free to watch, as long as you’re okay with ads (or have Adblock. Reminder that I encourage everyone to use Adblock, because fuck advertising being shoved into…

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Currently watching: Pon no Michi

I don’t know much about rap, but I just found Run The Jewels’ Oh My Darling (Don’t Cry) last week and now I’ve had their first couple albums…

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Sky diary #8: Poison

Playing No Man’s Sky has fit into my negative mindset lately. Every time I look out from the hole I’m in right now, something happens that drives me…

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Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Henry V & VI

Last post I wrote about a fictional British monarch, so I’d better return to the real ones this post. Sort of real, at least — Shakespeare’s history plays…

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OVA review: Azur Lane: Queen’s Orders

I’m on an OVA kick right now so here’s one that most readers definitely will not be interested in: an anime adaptation of a spinoff of a manga…

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Sky diary #7: Parade of horrors

It’s Saturday night and I’m writing this and listening to a lot of Soft Machine. Somehow I’d never heard this band, but they were right at the genesis…

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OVA review: Heya Camp△: Sauna to Gohan to Sanrin Bike

There, I finally added the triangle. Copypasted it from MAL, anyway. And here’s something I probably shouldn’t get away with dedicating one entire post to: a ten-minute Yamaha…

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New year notes

I’m still at the bottom of a dank dark hole right now. Mentally speaking, anyway. I have my physical health, as far as I know, and I should…

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Sky diary #6: Station to station

Well wouldn’t you know it, but I lied to you again: the next post is more of this No Man’s Sky stuff. I’ll see how long I can…

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Sky diary #5: Honeypot

Happy Christmas to everyone here. I’m not in much of a celebratory mood these days, but I hope you can find some comfort this season. There’s no comfort…

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Sky diary #4: Stupid interview questions

No Man’s Sky again, back in the central settlement of Drammen, Norway I founded last post. I managed to get enough wood to expand my somewhat pathetic house…

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Sky diary #3: Welcome home

It’s No Man’s Sky time again, oh yeah. I hope you wanted more of it. Finally I can make it to a new system that hopefully won’t suck so…

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Historical drama film review: Cromwell

I know I started that Hollow Crown watchthrough a while back that I’m only three films into, but I’ll try to justify covering this one in between, because it’s…

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Sky diary #2: Unwelcome visitor

Back in No Man’s Sky, and back to my waste of a planet. Though since last time, I have found enough resources to build this computer somehow that allowed…

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A review of Planetarian

Last month was pretty slow here, I know. December will probably be slow too as my work continues to ramp up. But naturally, I’m not going to not…

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Sky diary #1: Making a mistake

I may have made a mistake, yeah: I bought No Man’s Sky during a Black Friday sale. I’ve been looking for a space flight/exploration sim that’s not too…

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A list of podcasts I like

Yet another low-effort post today, since the end of the year at work is turning out to be extremely hectic, and I don’t expect that to change until…

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A review of Slow Loop

Newly minted high school student Hiyori Yamakawa, soon to be Hiyori Minagi, is going through a lot of changes: new school, new stepfather with her mother’s second marriage,…

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More YouTube channels and videos for your eyes and ears

The next post was going to be a review of cute girl fishing anime Slow Loop, but it turned out there was more to say about it than I…

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A few more things I bought, part whatever

I’m trying to cope with the news these days by writing no-effort posts like this one. As an American born and raised with partly Palestinian family roots and…

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Nine more songs to hear (anime and otherwise)

Look, I have to admit something. I am a weeb. Yes. I’m sure you didn’t know, so this may come as a shock. I say that to partly…

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A review of Gunbuster

The Earth is threatened by space insects, and the only ones who can save humanity are a set of students piloting giant robots. That’s a tale as old…

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Demo mode: Tevi

It’s Next Fest time again at Steam. Nuts to Valve, as usual, but where else are indie devs going to post their games for sale? I love itch.io,…

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Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Henry IV

Oh yeah, these are where the history plays really get going. Henry IV is a great time, and in particular the first part of the two. High politics,…

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Yet another AI lawsuit: Authors Guild v. OpenAI

Another case? I should say cases, because the above-named case isn’t the only one — I’ve read three other civil complaints, all making similar arguments and allegations against…

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Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II

Throw a Shin Megami Tensei in the front and Raidou Kuzunoha vs. Whoever on the back of that post title. But no other title works, because after rewatching Kenneth Branagh’s…

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Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Collision

Even more legendary heroes of the future galaxy. If Legend of the Galactic Heroes is the actual future, maybe it’s better that we don’t have one — only a shitty…

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A few not quite free games from itch.io

Man, I have a huge pile of games on itch.io I haven’t played. That pile might stand as tall as a modest house if they were all in…

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Historical drama film review: Henry V (1989)

No, I wasn’t kidding about the Shakespeare last post. But is it wrong to call a film adaptation of a Shakespeare play a historical drama? I don’t think…

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Anime short review: Magical Play

Back to the anime shorts, and what a short this one is. After covering brain-expanding political philosophy in Legend of the Galactic Heroes twice, I thought I should…

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Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Stellar War

More thoughts on the new LOGH, now covering the second season subtitled Stellar War. Even though the whole series is a stellar war, or an interstellar war, but…

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Games for broke people: Comfortable edition

It’s a long weekend for us Americans, and it’s time to be comfortable, or at least less uncomfortable, since I still have fucking work to do this weekend.…

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Anime short review: Wonder Momo

Have you ever imagined what an anime written by an AI would look like? The 2014 anime short Wonder Momo was somehow not written by an ancient version…

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Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Encounter

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I wrote about Legend of the Galactic Heroes way back in 2014 or whenever it was, being then and now one of…

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Anime short review: Vampire Holmes

How could I take on a set of terrible anime and skip Vampire Holmes? This short (thankfully) comedy series from 2015 has miserable ratings and is generally considered…

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Ten years later, throwing memories away

What a dramatic title, but I hope I can justify it today. This month marks ten years of my writing on this site. I think I’ve gone through…

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Anime short review: Hacka Doll

More anime shorts, but this time it’s not one I expected to hate before watching. I don’t even remember how I found this one, since it’s been in…

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Anime short review: Ragnastrike Angels

Already it’s time for part three (or four maybe) of my “worst anime ever” run. You might have noticed that they’ve all been shorts so far, and there’s…

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Summer game haul (or, games I might never finish)

Since I have less and less free time. And yet the sales don’t end, and what am I supposed to do? As much as I hate Valve and…

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OVA review: Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven

Or the latest in my unofficial “is it really that bad?” review series of anime. I sought out Pupa exactly because it was so poorly rated and watched…

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Anime OVA review: Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven

Or the latest in my unofficial “is it really that bad?” review series of anime. I sought out Pupa exactly because it was so poorly rated and watched…

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Criticism and nostalgia: My look back at The Simpsons

I know I said I probably wouldn’t ever cover western animation again, but this is an exception I have to make. A while back, I found an interesting…

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Historical drama series review, part 4: I, Claudius

Reviving another old post format? Sure, may as well, since this post is different from the usual fare. When I wrote about live-action series I’ve enjoyed over the…

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Games for broke people: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

I think out of all the first-rate video game mascots, Sonic has had by far the strangest journey. He was created to compete with Mario, starred in a…

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Key changes, dramatic endings, and “Shoujo Rei”

Lately I’ve been cycling through a few different songs and albums. This is the usual thing for me — even though I’d say I have a pretty eclectic…

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A review of K-On! The Movie

What a change. When I watched the first season of K-On! a while back, it hit a sour note with me, though there was plenty of nice sweetness…

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