• Goblins: You Know ‘Em, You Love ‘Em

    If you want soldiers or thugs, hire hobgoblins. If you want someone clubbed to death in their sleep, hire bugbears. If you want mean little fools, hire goblins. Stalman Klim, slave lord Weird question: what’s your default goblin sound? Is it odd cackling? Or a sort of high-pitched grunting? I always make a weird ‘hyegh-hyegh’…

  • Can True Star Trek Return?

    A while back, I wrote an article complaining about everything modern Star Trek gets wrong. In that article, I lamented that the Star Trek shows of old have been left behind in favor of mindless space action. All the intellect, optimism, and charm of the older shows have been completely forgotten. Today, I’m going to…

  • Horimiya: Bringing Romance Down to Earth

    Anime is one of the most over-the-top mediums out there. From battle shounen to slice-of-life dramas, anime always takes everything to the extreme. It’s part of its charm. Plus, it makes the rare show that’s down-to-earth all the more impactful. Horimiya is one of the most grounded, enjoyable, and addictive romcoms I’ve watched in a…

  • The Master Chief Collection: Finally Worth It?

    You’d think it wouldn’t be hard to put together an anniversary collection for a series like Halo. Just stick the games into one package, make sure the multiplayer works, do some refining here and there, and boom. You’ve got a Halo collection. It’s undoubtedly more complicated than that, but that’s the basic idea of it.…

  • Varys ‘The Spider’: Why He Worked and How the Show Ruined Him

    Game of Thrones is not a series in which simple people last. Those who are purely good quickly have their intentions taken advantage of and end up dead. Those who are purely evil are quickly assassinated to prevent them from becoming as dangerous as they could in a position of higher power. If you’re too…