Review – Land of the Lustrous [Houseki no Kuni]
“Rigorous, meaningful work is the best medicine for questioning one’s place in the world.” Land of the Lustrous, or if you would rather Country of Jewels, is an 2017 show loosely based on the still on-going comic published in Monthly…
Review – Granbelm
I would sum up Granbelm as “Magical preteens who fight a battle royale with robots in hopes of being the one chosen by magic itself, complete with gutwrenching drama and enough character death to remind you that anime isn’t supposed…
I Have No Idea What I Am Doing In Elite Dangerous
Elite: Dangerous is a beautiful screensaver of a game that I have zero idea how to play, despite putting over 20 full days worth of time into it. I picked it up way back in 2016, had a lot of…
If I Get My Coat I’ll Get a Beating
There’s this story circulating around Twitter and Reddit about “Bean Dad,” the parent who wouldn’t help his nine year old daughter cook beans on the stove and expected her to know how. It’s a whole thing. A lot of comments…
Every Year – A New Year
Someone – was it Plato? Buddha? Backaroo Bonzai? – once said “Wherever you go, there you are.” 2020 was awful for a lot of reasons, but many of them were tied to the fact that I still didn’t resolve the…
5 Ways My Son And I Continue To Explore Eorzea Differently
My oldest son and I continue to play Final Fantasy 14: The Hunt for Good Glamour. He has played countless hours grinding up most of his classes to 80 and completing the most recent content; I have beaten the main…
Review – The Nightmare Game System
When I was 8 years old I would argue there were two shows I watched religiously. Sure, I’d catch cartoons as I could, but good luck prying me away from the television if these two shows were on. The first…
Trying to Be Thankful During the End of the World
Thursday, November 26th, marks some special holidays for Americans. There’s National Cake Day, which is where we sing that one DNCE song. There’s National Day of Mourning, which is kind of a big deal if you or a loved one…
Review – Crimson Sands: Sosaku Online (Book 1)
If you’re looking for a book with big breasted lamias and paragraphs of discussion on hairy dwarf feet, this book will disappoint in every way. If you’re looking for a solid adventure in the LitRPG subgenre that features a likeable…
Review – Janus and Oblivion (The Nightmares of Alamir, #1)
Sometimes you read a story about a very typical do-gooder hero who sets out to altruistically make the world a better place because that’s just the sort of person he is. Janus and Oblivion is not that sort of story.…
