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Model kits to video games, so much geek, so little time.

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Post-Pandemic Check-in: Orchids, tin whistle, and video game music! ♪

Post-Pandemic Check-in: Orchids, tin whistle, and video game music! ♪

Hey, friends! It’s been ages and I hope you have all been well. While I’m still not in the writing mood very often, I wanted to show readers what hobby activities I’ve been up to this past year, which is mainly growing a LOT of houseplants, and also playing the tin whistle and making nerdy video game, anime, and film song covers! (more…)

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Rising Stars - Gaming Blogger Spotlight #2

Rising Stars – Gaming Blogger Spotlight #2

What is Rising Stars?

I wanted to make it easier for gaming writers to connect with the gaming blogger community, so I started this little series called “Rising Stars” where both veteran bloggers and readers can discover and welcome new or relatively unknown gaming writers into the community. I hope this will help to encourage and support individuals as well as maintain the health of the…

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Tales From Video Game Retail - Sandwiches and Shenanigans

Tales From Video Game Retail – Sandwiches and Shenanigans

The Lunch Break Tag-along

We had a regular at my second video game store who would come in multiple days a week to hang out for hours on end without buying anything. No one felt comfortable asking him not to loiter because he was a young veteran discharged with an injury, and he was nice, if oblivious. The main problem was that he would follow either me or my female supervisor around the…

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Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight Review (Switch); the little priestess who could

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a charming, gorgeously animated Metroidvania title about a brave priestess trying to rid her village of a withering curse emanating from the country’s royal palace. Lovingly crafted with rich, detailed pixel graphics, Momodora: RUTH is a short and sweet adventure worth your time.

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How to do Mounts RIGHT - The Amazing Mount System in Guild Wars 2

How to do Mounts RIGHT – The Amazing Mount System in Guild Wars 2

I have always been a huge sucker for pets and mounts in video games. If I get to own, raise, ride, or play with animals of any kind, chances are I’ll love whatever game it is. When I used to play World of WarcraftI would spends ages running old raid content for the 2% chance of rare mount loot drops. As in “Sorry I can’t go out to dinner, gotta run Icecrown Citadel on my 10th alt before weekly…

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Rising Stars Gaming Blogger Spotlight #1 These days gamers tend to consume video game reviews, information, and related gaming entertainment in video format on sites like Youtube or Twitch, but we still have an enthusiastic editorial gaming community here on WordPress!

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IRL - Oahu scenery and saying goodbye to Hawaii

IRL – Oahu scenery and saying goodbye to Hawaii

Last day on the North Shore

Ocean on one side, mountains on the other, never a bad view

North Shore full moon

Tide Pools

Wind power!

Wedding outfits

The venue we stayed at on the North Shore

Hardcore shave ice with mochi balls in Mililani

Final sunset of the trip, overlooking Honululu

Even caught a double rainbow last week!

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Zoids... Remember that anime with the giant mecha animals?

Zoids… Remember that anime with the giant mecha animals?

Zoids was one of my first and favorite animes when I was a teen. I would build the old Hasbro model kits in middle school and junior high all the time! My parents even used them as incentive for earning good grades. Now I’m 27 and for years I would occasionally get his strong urge: I should build a Zoid...

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Monkeys, Pterodactyls, and Polar Bear Dogs, oh my!

Monkeys, Pterodactyls, and Polar Bear Dogs, oh my!

Just a quick off topic post while I’m still out of town… I had the weirdest dream I’ve ever had in my life a while back, so I wrote it down at the time. This dream was not lucid at all and I kept alternating between being physically part of it and watching other “scenes” without being there. Okay, get ready to interpret!

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My Hoard of Dragons

Dragons always meant a lot to me because it was the first thing I ever learned to draw, a skill taught to me by my first, true best friend in my early teens. We would spend hours upon hours reading fantasy novels (also with dragons in them of course), drawing, and playing games like Spyro and Kingdom Hearts. Since then dragons have represented the personification of imagination and creativity to…

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Ethics and Tragedy of Blades in Xenoblade Chronicles 2

One of the central themes of Xenoblade Chronicles 2is whether or not Blades should be considered a race of people rather than weapons or tools, or if it is fair to treat them as weapons even if it’s their nature. Are they slaves no matter how well their Driver treats them? Just because a Blade and Driver have a good relationship, even a loving one, does that make it right to use them? On the…

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Tales From Video Game Retail: Trade in Woes

Trade ins. Dear lord, trade ins. Don’t get me started on those sports games that come out at the same time every year, like FIFA, NBA, Madden, etc. Folks would want to trade in last year’s Madden game and FREAK OUT when they saw the trade in value, having now realized that games depreciate like anything else. Like, bruh. I’ve got 20 drawers of games back here and FIVE of them are FULL of MADDEN,…

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Vacation photos - We made it to Oahu!

Vacation photos – We made it to Oahu!

19 hours of airport travel later…

Sunrise over Honolulu

The manic eyes of jetlag

Pearl Harbor

USS Missouri moored in Pearl Harbor

Found this fantastic, janky local eatery

Local dessert favorite: shave ice, ice cream, fruit, with condensed milk on top, 5 million calories

Trippy murals downtown in the art district

Little Japan full of gacha machines!

The view from our…

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The Red Strings Club Review; the ghost in the machine

The Red Strings Club is a fantastic little point and click adventure game by Devolver Digital that can be completed in one sitting. Running about three to four hours long but with great replay value, The Red Strings Club provides a quality, succinct cyberpunk package fortified with superb dialogue and sprinkled with the tendency to make your question your own opinions.

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Hawaii Flight delays and Nintendo Switch travel swag

My boyfriend and I are currently living in a John Mulaney standup bitright now. Our first flight was delayed yesterday so badly that it combo broke our two connecting fights and we had to reschedule for today. Delta is like the the EA of airlines, I swear. Our second flight today is delayed too so here we are, aging towards death one delay announcement at a time in Detroit International when we…

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Blog Update, Social Media, and Vacation! Hey friends! I added all my social media accounts to my sidebar for those interested. I'll add anyone who adds me, of course.

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Final Fantasy XII HD Review; Under the Skies of Ivalice

Final Fantasy XII HD Review; Under the Skies of Ivalice

Final Fantasy XII is a game I wish I had been old enough to appreciate when it first released in 2006, but am very pleased to be playing now with its new coat of HD polish. The tale of Final Fantasy XIIis refreshingly mature compared to past installment of the series; it does not involve stopping a global catastrophe right off the bat or a mysterious bad guy intent on world domination. Instead…

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