Thoughts and such by Joshua Tong
I picked up Armored Core VI recently because it’s a game about giant robots and I am a noted sucker for giant robots. It’s a game where you take your mech (or Armored Core, AC, in the game’s parlance) and fight stuff. Sometimes other mechs, sometimes massive drilling platforms, sometimes a mobile artillery platform. It’s… Continue reading Fluency
I really enjoy the animated Star Trek show Lower Decks. It’s pitched as a comedic take on the Star Trek world, mining humor from the life of the people on the lower decks of a Federation starship. What if the epic exploration of Star Trek was a workplace comedy? The humor is broad enough that… Continue reading Slightly Less Lower Decks
I found out yesterday that Jon Stewart and John Mulaney were doing a few shows together near me. Seeing either of them live would be a delight, but both of them in one show? Let’s go! So I found the website, clicked through, and discovered in order to buy tickets I had to go through…… Continue reading A Brief Screed Against Ticketmaster
Looking for a movie to watch this weekend, I saw that a theater near me was showing the 2009 Star Trek. I’ve been meaning to watch the movie again, I remember loving it; though not being much of a Trek fan at the time. It was cool and it’s much of the reason I was… Continue reading (Old) New Trek
A friend convinced me to check out My Adventures With Superman a couple weeks ago and I proceeded to watch all then-available seven episodes in a single day. Which is unusual for me — I am incredibly bad at binging tv shows. It’s a very good show. The cartoon follows a young Clark Kent as… Continue reading Supercheese
One of my (arguably too many) hobbies is LEGO. Like, buying sets, building sets, and then making my own stuff. Honestly, "hobby" is probably an understatement; this has been a lifelong passion of mine, as attested to by the multitude of storage drawers on the desk next to me as I write this. There’s a… Continue reading Not Just A Hobby
Having finished Jedi: Survivor, I’ve moved on to checking out Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart. Though not one of the launch titles for the PlayStation 5, I remember a lot of the buzz around its release praising it as showing off just what the PS5 is capable of. Playing it now, finally, it really… Continue reading Tech Demo
I will freely admit that I bounced off it the first time I encountered William Carlos Williams’ poem "The Red Wheelbarrow." As far as I was concerned, it was not a poem; it was in free verse with no describable rhyme scheme or pattern to speak of. And it was just about some silly wheelbarrow… Continue reading Wheelbarrows
One of the many collectibles in Jedi: Survivor are seeds. Some plants around the central planet of Koboh have seeds that you can collect and bring back to your cantina's garden. Me being me, I've been running around the planet and getting all the collectibles as I head toward the end of the game. So,… Continue reading Gardening With a Lightsaber
There’s a bit in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor where you end up raiding a crashed Lucrehulk’s command sphere. You know, one of those big Trade Federation ships in Episode I. It’s a great time — and you get to fight a bunch of B1 Battle Droids which is always a highlight. Before long, you make… Continue reading I’ve Been Here Before
Essays, Not Rants! 