• Revisiting Naruto Shippuden: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Revisiting Naruto Shippuden: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    I was part of a very unfair and abusive relationship back in high school. When I say that, you might assume I’m talking about my first girlfriend. No! I’m talking about this show! Naruto: Shippuden is the perfect encapsulation of everything I love and hate about shounen anime all in one package. Back when I…

  • The Rebel Flagship: The Final Hurdle of FTL (Best Boss Battles)

    The Rebel Flagship: The Final Hurdle of FTL (Best Boss Battles)

    FTL: Faster Than Light is one of my favorite indie games of all time. Whereas other roguelike games I find more frustrating than entertaining, when I play FTL, I often find myself doing four or five consecutive runs, regardless of the success of any given one. It’s challenging, it’s satisfying, and it’s freakishly addictive. The…

  • Rewriting the 13th Doctor (Doctor Who)

    Rewriting the 13th Doctor (Doctor Who)

    One of the most interesting aspects of Doctor Who as a show is the concept of regeneration. For those unfamiliar with the series, whenever the main character, the Doctor, is fatally wounded, they change every cell in their body, becoming a whole new person. This allows new actors to take the character’s role and the…

  • Writer’s Diary: December 2022 Update

    I’ll be real with you guys: things haven’t exactly been going my way lately. Real life has been kicking me around like a Soccer ball (or football, if you’re someone who actually cares) so I haven’t been in the best place. Productivity is down much further than I had hoped. But it isn’t at zero…

  • Peryton: Gruesome Beauty

    Lore: A Bird After Mine Own Heart… Literally A viscous carnivore, the peryton prefers to eat humanoid creatures like elves, half-elves, and humans. After it kills its prey, it will rip out its heart and carry it back to its nest to feast. Beautiful though the creature may be, it is as terrible as any…