Bobby Schroeder ⁽⁶⁹⁾

Bobby Schroeder January 27, 2025

My favorite stuff from 2024

It's the first annual Ponett Awards! Read on for homoerotic super robot anime, black and white slapstick comedy, crazy ambitious fangames, and many more recommendations from throughout the year.

Bobby Schroeder December 21, 2024

Thoughts on Sonic 3!

My full thoughts on Sonic 3, a fun popcorn flick with a lot of Sonic Adventure 2 fanservice that's also still very much The Third Paramount Sonic Movie, for good and for ill.

Bobby Schroeder December 19, 2024

Bluesky: Is "better than Twitter" enough?

My experiences over on Bluesky, both positive and negative, and the ways in which I feel the design choices of the site are influencing user behavior. Come learn why I hate the Discover feed and how Starter Packs can be a curse.

Bobby Schroeder November 4, 2024

In defense of Deep Space Nine's first season

I've started watching DS9 for the first time, so let's talk about the underappreciated joys of early season weirdness. Don't listen to the people on Reddit, this season is good.

Bobby Schroeder September 26, 2024

Cool comics I've been reading, September 2024

Yes, this is primarily an excuse for me to gush about Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers and Ryan North's Fantastic Four.

Bobby Schroeder July 17, 2024

Berserk Boy review: Hey, wait a minute...

A decent sidescroller that drove me a little crazy and made me consider where the line between loving homage and shameless copy lies.

Bobby Schroeder June 28, 2024

A tale of three Triguns

Comparing and contrasting the ways the three versions of the series portray Vash as a character, with both anime adaptations taking the source material in very different directions.

Bobby Schroeder May 8, 2024

Story time: "Super Kids" and my furry awakening

Reminiscing on some wish fulfillment stories I wrote as a kid, and some creative decisions in them that were funny in hindsight.

Bobby Schroeder April 27, 2024

Knuckles show review - I derive a sort of sick pleasure from this

When judged purely in terms of its faithfulness as an adaptation of the Sonic games, this is quite possibly the franchise's worst adaptation ever. It's often barely even about Knuckles.

...So then why do I kinda like it?

Bobby Schroeder April 10, 2024

My Wes Anderson movie rankings

Pretend to act surprised when I give a high ranking to his stop motion furry movie.

Bobby Schroeder February 8, 2024

My own personal Hell: Thoughts on Hazbin Hotel

Some thoughts on why I didn't particularly enjoy a certain cartoon set in Hell. Just a few.

Bobby Schroeder January 23, 2024

Why I dropped Bravely Default

(Originally a response to a question on Tumblr.)

Bobby Schroeder January 12, 2024

Sonic Prime: Season 3 - This show sucks (Plus: The canonicity discourse)

This last batch of episodes has left me feeling disappointed with the show as a whole, though maybe not for the exact same reasons the fandom focused on.

Bobby Schroeder January 2, 2024

Bobby's 2023 Media Wrap-Up

EVERYTHING that I watched, read, played, or listened to in 2023!

Bobby Schroeder January 1, 2024

Let's geek out about Kirby music

This one's for all the people who don't know any Kirby music other than Green Greens and Gourmet Race and don't know that this series is capable of doing gabber speed metal.

Bobby Schroeder December 22, 2023

Sony’s PlayStation 5 Presents Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (the third game in the series)

This is mostly me nitpicking the writing, if I'm being honest.

Bobby Schroeder December 15, 2023

SLARPG Postmortem: One year later

It's already been a year.