The Bachelor in Florida

Hey. Been a while, huh? I've been enjoying my "book writing sabbatical" perhaps a little too much. A lot of my novel has gotten done, but there have been plenty of things over the last month I easily could have blogged about. I was almost completely by myself for three weeks as Mom and Aly …

Gotta read ’em all!

The Unova Region has enveloped a lot of my life over the last few days. First there was the start of my fanfiction. Then the locale of Pokémon Black & White came up again when I was wandering Barnes & Noble with my sister and discovered a book of Santa Harukaze comics, put out by Viz Media. …

My thoughts on Nintendo’s 2019 E3 Direct

I haven't paid a lot of attention to 2019's E3 outside of the surprise Keanu Reeves appearance, but today was Nintendo's time to shine. That's all the introduction you need. Here's the 40-minute video. Let's talk about it. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Kicking off the Direct was a flashy cinematic of Ultimate's World of Light in …

She’s Mythic and divine

In Fire Emblem, some of Humanity's greatest heroes wield a legendary weapon known as the Falchion that is imbued with the power to cut through dark forces and the dragons who often wreck havoc. Alm, the Saint-King of Valentia, bore Falchion when he struck down a being of pure chaotic power. Marth, the Hero-King of Archanea, …

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 …

Unraveling more YouTube recommendations

You can spin this blog post today one of two ways. Perhaps this is a public service for all of those affected by the over 10-hour Facebook outages that affected the social media platform and its company's holdings (including Instagram and WhatsApp) for some reason other than a denial-of-service attack — an issue which they, in …

Quick Time Events suck

I know it's a cliché to argue exactly what I'm saying in the title here, but don't worry. I'm not actually planning on going on a long tirade against QTEs in video games. This is just another case of 'I spent all day hanging out with my friends and didn't take the chance to write …

My unpublished Comm 436 video game trend story

One of my favorite classes this past semester was Communications 436: Entertainment Reporting, which was taught by OC Register reporter Paul Hodgins. While his lectures were perhaps a little vaguely laid out for my tastes, that was readily made up for by the interesting auxiliary bits he included during each three-hour class period — namely …

Entertainment Beat Report – May 10, 2018

Welcome to what may just be my last Entertainment Beat Report.  Later today I'm heading back over to Cal State Fullerton so I can show this little experiment off to my professor for a grade, and I haven't decided whether or not I want to keep it going after that. On one hand, it's been …

Entertainment Beat Report – March 15, 2018

I know this is exactly what I said on my last post, but I don't believe I have a quippy opening to put up before this beat report. It's just a standard round-up of the video game news from this last week thanks to some help from my friends that have way more time to pay …