When I said that this was gonna be a busy June, I certainly meant for weekends like this when I’ve more stuff on than time to sit down and write a proper post. But Acolyte continues to be interesting, though the narrative is spinning its wheels. But exploring more corners of the Star Wars galaxy… Continue reading Away Again
Future’s Past
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic is set four thousand years before the main Star Wars movies. War wages between the Republic and the Sith Empire as the Jedi try to fight back against an unstoppable force millennia before the rise of Palpatine. Released back in 2003, the game was set in a whole… Continue reading Future’s Past
Summer Starts
It’s another summer and I’m on the move again. I probably could have written something ahead of time, but a lack of forethought coupled with general busyness doesn’t lend itself to prepping a blog post. But Star Wars: Acolyte comes out this week. I haven’t been following the press around it too closely (surprising, I… Continue reading Summer Starts
Virtual Tourism
I’m spending a couple days in Venice, Italy in a month so I’m preparing the best way I know how: By replaying Assassin’s Creed II. A good chunk of the game takes place in a fairly faithful recreation of Renaissance Venice, I haven’t played it since I first did, fourteen years ago, a sentence that’s… Continue reading Virtual Tourism
Jukebox Stuntsical
The Fall Guy came out a couple weeks ago and it’s an absolute blast, a movie that couches its stuntman-based hijinks with a surprisingly solid romcom. Its impressively robust plot and charming characters is all gravy, though, because ultimately, The Fall Guy’s is the stunt-equivalent of a jukebox musical. Hear me out. The Fall Guy… Continue reading Jukebox Stuntsical
Week off
Traveling this weekend, so not much time for a well thought out post. But I did see The Phantom Menace last weekend and the movie is a mess but it’s a beautiful mess and I love it so.
Rerelease
It’s May the Fourth and as decided proof that it’s gone from being an informal pun day to a bit of corporate branding, The Phantom Menace got rereleased in cinemas this weekend. I, being the Star Wars trash that I am, am going to see it tomorrow. Because I will rally against the commodification of… Continue reading Rerelease
Sneaking Past Rewards
Cyberpunk 2077 gives you a lot of options on how to approach combat. You can run in guns blazing. You can run in sword blazing. You can hack your enemies’s brains and make them catch fire. You can run sneak in, silently stabbing everyone before leaving without being noticed. You can sneak in, hiding from… Continue reading Sneaking Past Rewards
Fantasy’s End
As I’ve mentioned on this blog here and there, I’ve spent the past year and a half playing through the Final Fantasy games that were released on the PlayStation. It started with VIII, then X, then a foray in X-2, then XII, then jumping ahead to XVI, before going back to VII, and then now… Continue reading Fantasy’s End
Old Future
On a recommendation, I’ve started watching Futurama over the past couple months. This being me it’ll probably be a year or so before I finish the show (I’m really bad at watching TV). In the meantime, the show’s a fascinating time capsule. Some of that is in the sitcom tropes it uses, what with the… Continue reading Old Future
Essays, Not Rants! 