Now it’s time for a very short post on Nintendo Power Metroid covers. My last post was all about Nintendo Power as a whole, but
Category: 2010s Retrospectives
The 2010s Retrospectives series is a long-form series of blog posts covering the entire decade of the 2010s. I analyze how the 2010s changed the world, changed pop culture, and changed my life, through the lens of whatever random topics I’m feeling like. It’s a real eclectic mix of subjects.
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I really miss Nintendo Power. It’s almost entirely just nostalgia for the magazine era, but I don’t care. I can have nostalgia when I want,
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It took me a long time to realize why I always felt a great connection to Akaza Akari. But I think I’ve finally accepted the
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It’s been almost a whole damn year since my last time dong a 2010s Retrospectives Update. Guess what? I’m still not done with these silly
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In Janaury 2019, Skaianet Systems Incorporated launched. Homestuck’s tenth anniversary was coming up, and so was its infamous epilogue, which meant some viral marketing was
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It took until 2017 for me to actually understand buses. I don’t know; there just weren’t buses anywhere I lived, not in any relevant capacity.
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Dredd 2 is dead. It was never even a real possibility, as much as we campaigned for it. But the first Dredd movie released in
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I watched the 2021 Nintendo Direct from E3 today. Despite rock-bottom expectations and a waning interest in the gaming hype machine, I still woke up
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I’ve had a lot of smartphones and mobile devices over the past decade. For some reason, I’m going to list them to you so you
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Remember when Moviepass existed? How awesome was that! If you don’t remember or are reading from the future, Moviepass was a movie subscription model. Only,