The highs and lows of recomposing Zelda

I never played Crypt of the NecroDancer. When the roguelike rhythm-based dungeon crawler was released by Vancouver game studio Brace Yourself Games in 2015, it got a lot of good press for being a unique Indie game that blended disparate genres seamlessly. I'm not sure why I didn't try Crypt, so I'll just say I assumed …

Opening a forum

Not long ago, the University Honors Program gave me an opportunity to add "event planner" onto my résumé. Now it let me add "forum moderator" to the list as well. For the last few days, the program has been holding Open Forums to introduce students to the three finalists vying to be next year's Associate …

Truly wacky

I was planning on taking today to write about a new YouTube series I've come to love. However, that's on the back-burner after I discovered something more wacky to discuss from a more traditional visual medium. I'm not blind to the fact that the 2010's media landscape is a minefield of reboots, remakes and sequels. …

Captain Marvel is an excellent, if flawed, lynchpin for the MCU

So, guess who just saw Captain Marvel? The movie which Meninism Magazine voted worst blight on masculinity since Paul Feig's Ghostbusters. I kid. Any relation to real-life absurdist magazines or misogynistic straw polls is purely coincidental. It's just hilarious to me how reactionary the hate for this movie has been leading up to its release. But that's …

Literal filler with room filler

Don't worry, I can already hear all of your complaints. "Three posts in a row about fixing your room up? What's the deal Jason, why even bother?"To be fair, until about an hour ago I was not going to put anything up on my blog today. I have two ideas set for tomorrow and an …

Overheard at a Starbucks counter

For all intents and purposes, this morning has kind of been a bust. I'm going to spend a good chunk of this post complaining before getting to the fun Starbucks bit, as a fair warning. I woke up extra early today, around 6:00 a.m. or so, that way I could commute to campus and show …

Reusing and Recycling

Last year I didn't really have a proper Halloween. All of the oxygen was sucked out of that particular room by Milo Yiannopolous visiting Cal State Fullerton, which wound up being a massive, exhausting reporting project that I was the lead on. Nobody around campus got to have a real Halloween that year. As great …

More YouTube Recommendations

I know I basically did this exact same thing less than a week ago, so it probably seems like this is a cop-out. But honestly just consider it a symptom of me spending the whole day cleaning the house. Don't have too much to talk about outside of inhaling chemical fumes all afternoon, so I …

Script Doctoring at its finest

If I haven't made it totally obvious around here, I like movies. I like movies a lot. A good chunk of that love comes from my dad, who was a pretty serious actor for a while and continues to work in the movie industry, currently for Fandango as I've discussed in the past. Thanks to …

This feels gross… But Disney makes it right.

It's no surprise that I've become a bigger fan of mobile phone games in recent years. I've been a hardcore GameBoy/DS fanatic throughout my childhood. Yet, despite certain phone games of widespread popular fervor like Angry Birds or Pocket God making their way into my gaming lexicon, overall the app market never truly broke into …