I almost thought I’d never be able to beat this dang battle. I first attempted the fight in 2019, gave up after many attempts, tried again about six months ago but similarly failed, and finally buckled down to complete this trial. Now that it’s behind me, I thought I’d write down my strategy, since the …
Now 3/4 through the year, so it’s time for another update. The first thing to talk about is that I had an existential scare in June and July. Since September of last year, I started getting tonsil stones. I didn’t even know what they were before last year. Anyway, they were something of a quality …
It took me 18 or so years, but I finally finished watching Cowboy Bebop. I’ve been sour on the idea of slogging through it after the ending was unexpectedly spoiled for me by some friends at an anime convention (their argument was that if I hadn’t finished it by then, then I never would, and …
We’re now halfway through 2020, so it’s time for an update. Holy hell, things have been wild this year. Coronavirus has killed over 100,000 Americans so far (over 380,000 people worldwide) and that fact doesn’t seem to faze anyone. I’ve been working from home for the past three months. My only trips to the world …
I finally earned the PlayStation platinum trophy for Final Fantasy X today. More than completing the Sphere Grid for every character, the challenge I feared the most was “Lightning Dancer” which requires you to dodge at least 200 lightning strikes in a row in the Thunder Plains. I had tried to do this in the …
I finished NieR: Automata earlier today. It was a great game, but what stole my heart was the music. Holy crap, it’s so good! The game devs made the unusual choice to produce the background music with heavy use of vocals. I wouldn’t have expected it to work so well, but it does. The words …
I tried watching FLCL back when it was still new, but I couldn’t get more than an episode or two through it without giving up. I tried multiple times, but I could not be compelled to stick to it. Well, I finally did it. But I can’t say I’m terribly satisfied by the accomplishment. I …
I decided I’m going to start logging the junk I buy. I think it’s cool, and it gives me more opportunities to update the site, so why not? I got: Sina Mora Ex (Switch) Kill la Kill IF (PlayStation 4) Yakuza Kiwami (PlayStation 4) Yakuza 2 Kiwami (PlayStation 4) Yakuza Remastered Collection (PlayStation 4) As …
The other night, I was watching videos about cyberpunk games made for the Japanese PC-98 computer system and it spurred me to remember the song “Mad Machine” from the ’80s anime Bubblegum Crisis that I watched about twenty years ago. I’d searched specifically for this song many years ago and could not find a clean …
English version of “Mad Machine” from Bubblegum Crisis Read More »
(via Reddit (video of this clip playing on a Sony PVM-8221!))