The Super Smash Bros. Cinematic Universe

As many of you have seen, a trailer for Paramount's upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie dropped today. It's terrifying. But more than it is terrifying, the trailer feels frustrating. There's a whole lot of missed potential from what I can see as a casual fan of the series, and I spent a fair amount of time …

A pre-preparation of rites

Like I mentioned in my post showing off the character sketches from my novel-in-progress, this Friday I will be presenting my Senior Honors Project at the Honors Project Interdisciplinary Conference. We got the official email with the final schedule brochure and everything. It's happening. Not only is it happening, it's coming up at full speed. …

We’re through the Endgame

For days, all I've heard about Avengers: Endgame is that it is perfect. There was not a single bad thing said about the 22nd Marvel Cinematic Universe film. That couldn't be true. This movie is three-hours long. It simultaneously culminates two-dozen films, sequelizes a massive blockbuster and ends stories for characters we've known over 10 …

Alm finally gets an alt

Fire Emblem Heroes characters are showing up in another mobile game: Dragalia Lost. It seems to be a relatively big deal. Big enough that news organizations like Kotaku are covering the crossover event. For my money, the Awakening-inspired cover art is pretty amazing. But I can't say much more about Dragalia Lost. I've never played the game, …

My children come to life

Next week I will be presenting my Senior Project at the Honors Project Interdisciplinary Conference. Literally, next week. Friday, May 3 at 11:10 a.m. in room 1307 of the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics.  Just in case any of you are interested in going! It's a whole panel on creative writing that includes my …

The last Comm Awards

It has been a long 12-hour day, so let's keep this brief. Tonight was the Department of Communications Awards Ceremony for the year of our lord 2019. Last year I attended the ceremony with Mom and had a great time. Won a few scholarships while I was at it. Only my Mom was able to …

Evolving at level 22

A week ago, I lamented the passage of time after buying my graduation regalia from Titan Shops:     https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1118621610863284224?s=21 You might remember this as, "that thing that happened before I wrote about the SPJ meeting with Sonya Quick." But that brief moment of panic wasn't actually all that brief. Buying the cap and gown …

The Rochlins watch GTFO

My Gaming in American Culture class has taken me all over the proverbial map when it comes to consuming all different kinds of media. From tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons or Barbie to re-reading books like Ender's Game or Ready Player One with new lenses. From watching terrible video game-based movies like Tom Hanks' Mazes …

On Fandango and Vive

I've been vaguely hyping this up for a while, so I'm excited to finally talk about it. A few weeks ago I had a lovely conversation Paul Yanover, the President of Fandango. I put together a Spotlight all about his career path from being a software-writing USC graduate to heading one of the largest names in …

My little yellow book

This Zombie Jesus Day, I spent most of my time down in the cave. ... Is that an insensitive comparison to make? I suppose it might be. But I think it's funny, and really all I mean to say is that I spent the day cleaning my room and the downstairs bathroom. Not only has …