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Month: December 2018

2018 In Review

December 29, 2018 Joshua TongLeave a comment

2018 came and, as years are wont to do, went. Stuff happened, I wrote blog posts; you know the drill. It’s time to look back on the year and stop writing this silly excuse for a preamble. Five Most Popular/Viewed Posts #5: On Crazy Rich Asians As someone who’s spent a good deal of his… Continue reading 2018 In Review →

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Spiders

December 22, 2018December 22, 2018 Joshua TongLeave a comment

Comics are weird. Especially superhero comics. There are people who come back to death, people with weird powers, people who lose those weird powers but then get them back when they come back to life. Also, y’know, aliens and monsters and crazy science crap. Like I said, weird. There are also multiple universes, and so… Continue reading Spiders →

Tagged Comics, Into The Spider-Verse, Movies, Spider-Man

Exploring Worlds

December 15, 2018December 15, 2018 Joshua TongLeave a comment

I have a complex relationship with open-world games. On the one hand, it’s real neat to get to go explore a big world and do stuff. On the other, I really like the more catered, narrative experience offered by more linear games. On the other other hand, open-worlds are kinda the genre du jour for… Continue reading Exploring Worlds →

Tagged Breath of The Wild, The Legend of Zelda, Video Games

Top Ten Movie Challenge Thing

December 8, 2018 Joshua TongLeave a comment

There’s been this thing circulating around online challenging people to post a collection of top ten movies. I’m not a huge fan of ranking things, because it’s arbitrary, limited, and tends to change on a dime. Heck, I do a Top Nine every year and more often than not I’ll see something later that I’ll… Continue reading Top Ten Movie Challenge Thing →

Tagged bloggish, Movies

Play Together

December 1, 2018 Joshua TongLeave a comment

Easily the highlight of my time playing Destiny was Vault of Glass. It’s a raid, that is a really difficult mission that requires serious teamwork and a pretty major time investment. It took work to even find a group to play with: I play on the PS4 and didn’t know anyone else who played Destiny.… Continue reading Play Together →

Tagged Destiny, social gaming, Video Games
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