• Empyrean: The Bipolar Demigods

    Hey! That’s just a synth from Alien: Isolation in Greek clothing! You can’t fool me, Wizards of the Coast! Empyreans are pretty cool! Sure, their designs are super boring! But their lore, despite only being four paragraphs long, is super flexible and fun to work with! On top of that, they’ve got some incredible stats,…

  • YouTuber Movies Are Actually the Worst

    Little known fact: there is a big difference in filming a one-minute sketch on your phone and making a two-hour long feature film. There are few things I miss more than the early days of YouTube. It was such a strange and bizarre landscape when everything was kinda crappy and charming! People were truly expressing…

  • The Monstrous World-Building of One Piece

    The Monstrous World-Building of One Piece

    My productivity these last few weeks has taken a serious hit. I can come up with any number of excuses for it. ‘I’ve been depressed’. ‘My jobs been kicking my ass’. ‘I just wanna play that new game I bought’. But all of them would be lies. Because the real reason is quite simple. I’ve…

  • No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle: Three Steps Forward, Three Steps Back

    No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle: Three Steps Forward, Three Steps Back

    Ah, No More Heroes. Who would have expected that, of all the games on the Wii, the most family friendly console in Nintendo’s history, that one would get a sequel. But against all odds, it got one! Despite all the odds, No More Heroes came back for a second go! No More Heroes 2: Desperate…

  • Hisoka: The Wild Card

    Hisoka: The Wild Card

    Antagonists are the second most important characters in any story, right behind the protagonists themselves. After all, they are the ones that drive the conflict. And without conflict, do you even have a story? The answer is no. Hunter X Hunter has a lot of incredible villains. There’s the cold genius Chrollo and the Phantom…