My last childhood dog, Vader Puppy, passed away this week. At the ripe old age of 15, which is crazy good for a Labrador. I’m
Year: 2023
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I found out that Xenogears turns 25 this week. The Playstation classic RPG that launched Monolith Soft, the almost-Final-Fantasy-VII about cool mechs, is now old
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I bet you’re looking for some takeaways from the February 2023 Nintendo Direct, and I have sure got some takeaways for you. Other websites may
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Sometime pretty early in 2022, I got hooked on long Youtube video essays. Especially video game ones. I always bemoaned the fact that Youtube videos
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The goddamn dirt road’s still there, I bet. Back in the 2020 election, I found a really good, really striking quote from an article about
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Dr. Strange 2: In the Multiverse of Madness is kinda controversial. Shocking, I know. A movie that basically requires an encyclopedic knowledge to follow. And,
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New Oscar categories are sorely needed. Even the Academy admits radical change is needed. And new awards are an obvious huge solution. Every year, the
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Look what I got in the mail today; the new Fire Emblem game! I wasn’t a mega-fan of Three Houses back in 2019, although I
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Welcome to 2023, the year of rabbits and also of B. A. Bakers. I went another month without a new blog post, finally ending my