Fifty of my favorite games of 2024 just got ported to Switch all at once. What were the odds? If you're out of the loop, let me get you up to speed first. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 new 8-bit games, developed over…
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2024! What a year. A horrible, miserable year. But at least a lot of stuff I enjoyed came out in that time frame, right? In 2023, I wrote a one-paragraph review for every single thing I watched, read, played, or listened to, and then shared…
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In October I announced my departure from Twitter. Believe it or not, this wasn't an easy decision. I'd used my main account for over 12 years, literally my entire adult life, and in that time I'd built up a decent following of over 15,000 followers.
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Did you know they make comic books that don't star Sonic the Hedgehog? Or even any of his friends? Shocking, I know! Did you also know that, instead of waiting for live action adaptations that mostly end up being mediocre, you can just go straight to the…
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Berserk Boy, released earlier this year, is a game I enjoyed moment to moment, but I wish I enjoyed it more. As it stands, it's overall a pretty good game that I hope did well enough to warrant a sequel to refine its ideas further,…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. The day has finally come. Many, understandably, thought we’d never get here. Maybe we shouldn’t have gotten here. We’ve been through so much. Lawsuits, reboots, redesigns, unreleased NFTs, empty legal threats over the fact that…
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Recently, Anthony and I watched the original 1998 Trigun anime, one of my boyfriend’s favorites that I'd always meant to get around to. I enjoyed it a lot. Immediately after this, we figured we'd watch Orange's modernized CGI take on the series from last year,…
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I never expected to watch Hazbin Hotel, the raunchy musical dramedy about demons created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano. (No, not that one. The one with the wolf girl is Helluva Boss. This is the other one.) I just don’t vibe with the characters, the aesthetics,…
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This past year I kept a running list of everything I watched, every game I finished, every new album I listened to, etc., and wrote one-paragraph blurbs with my thoughts on every single one. Please enjoy this journey through everything I liked, or didn’t like,…
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This was originally posted as a public post on my Patreon for the first anniversary of Super Lesbian Animal RPG's release. It's already been a year. This week marks one year since the Super Lesbian Animal RPG Patreon Beta, when players first got their hands…
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Final Fantasy XVI is an easy game to make assumptions about. From the moment it was unveiled, many worried that it would be overly bleak and nihilistic in a series that’s usually anything but. That it would use its newfound ability to more directly depict…
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If you paid attention to video game discourse in the ’00s, you may remember a common narrative about Mega Man. The early sidescrollers had been rightfully enshrined as all-time classics, but there was also this weird reboot they did on the Game Boy Advance called…
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It‘s a miracle that Sonic Frontiers is as good as it is. I don’t mean that I’m shocked a 3D Sonic game is fun. I like 3D Sonic games. As readers of my blog Thanks Ken Penders know, I’m a huge fan of the franchise,…
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I’ve been asked a few times about my thoughts on the new My Little Pony series on Netflix, Make Your Mark — the flagship series for Generation 5. I previously shared more casual thoughts on the preceding movie, My Little Pony: A New Generation, which…
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It’s finally here! IDW Sonic #50! I waited to talk about the Imposter Syndrome miniseries until after #50 dropped, and it turns out #50 has, uh… well, it’s made a big splash. I’m not sure I’ve seen this many people talking about (and/or arguing over)…
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I have a confession: I took entirely too long to watch Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and I put it off for petty reasons. For one, I thought the show gave off what I’d call “Parry Gripp energy.” Between things like Star’s signature move…
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For years now, former Archie Sonic writer Ken Penders has been most well known for his legal battles with Archie and Sega in which he acquired the rights to his characters and stories. Among dedicated Sonic fans, he’s also known for his bad tweets and…
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