It’s been a week in the United States. We started off last Saturday with another mass shooting and ended it yesterday with the release of another video of police officers murdering a Black man. This all feels so repetitive, as if every few months it’s time for our scheduled Terrible, Unpreventable Occurrence that seems to… Continue reading Again
Combat Evolved Unevolved
I’m replaying Halo: Combat Evolved because it’s a great game and I haven’t played it in ages. The game holds up incredibly well, mostly because a lot of what it does has since become standard. The dual-stick controls that Halo codified have become standard in everything from Stray to God of War. A limited weapon loadout that you can swap on the fly with… Continue reading Combat Evolved Unevolved
Internet Outage
After being mildly unreliable for a couple weeks (seemingly, especially when I was trying to play Destiny online), my internet finally gave up the ghost Thursday night. Then it came back for a bit, died again last night, and has been out of commission most of today. After multiple chats with customer service, my internet… Continue reading Internet Outage
Other Cat Movie
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is the most visually arresting movie that came out in December 2022. Look, I’m as surprised as you are, but Last Wish is absolutely gorgeous to watch — not because its animation is photorealistic, but because it’s decidedly not. CGI animation has come a long way over the last… Continue reading Other Cat Movie
2022 In Review
Wow. The year’s ending. Still hard to believe that 2023 starts tomorrow. But anyway, less ruminating, more doing that thing I do every year where I do a post about posts in my tenth year of maintaining this blog. Five Most Popular / Viewed Posts #5: Returns This one’s about hope in light of anxiety,… Continue reading 2022 In Review
Nine Things From 2022
Oh wow, I somehow fell out of the habit of doing my Top Nine Movies, probably on account of, y’know, the pandemic. So we’re bringing it back, but this time it’s not just movies. It’s nine things I really enjoyed this year. Some of which are movies, others, well, you’ll see. As ever, it’s nine… Continue reading Nine Things From 2022
Final Match
The World Cup Final is tomorrow, which still feels weird given that it’s, y’know, December and not July. There are a lot of other regular things going on right now and slipping the World Cup in feels odd. Of course, there’s a reason for that, and that reason is, put quickly, one of corruption and… Continue reading Final Match
Leaving Stones Unturned
I am, a full seven years after its release, diving into Arkham Knight, the sequel to the great Arkham Asylum and Arkham City Batman games. I enjoyed the other two a lot, the combat was snappy and the overall fantasy of "you get to be Batman" was executed excellently. The games stuck in my mind… Continue reading Leaving Stones Unturned
Film Camera, Again
Back in March, I wrote about how I’d bought a film camera. A couple months after that I got a hold of another one, this one with a 50mm lens and manual focus and exposure. Yeah, I went full hipster. Anyway, my sentiments towards shooting on 35mm film, in that it is a bit of… Continue reading Film Camera, Again
The Other NaNo Cop Out Post
It’s still November and I’m still writing. Closing in on my doubled goal of 100,000 words to try and get half of this novel rewritten this month. Not sure if I’ll have any momentum left to finish it, but, hey, weirder things have happened. In the meantime, the World Cup has started and, with it,… Continue reading The Other NaNo Cop Out Post
Essays, Not Rants! 