Back in 2023 I wrote about my thoughts on the future of VR after gauging what was going on and what was releasing around that time. I’d say my thoughts were something like cautiously optimistic (I might have even used that exact phrase)? So I thought I would return to this idea and see how I’m feeling about the state of VR as it stands now and where it might be going. If I had…
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With the Switch 2 launch having just passed, it had gotten me thinking of some of the previous console launches I’ve experienced in the past. I’m not sure why the Gamecube launch has been sticking in my head recently, but maybe it has something to do with the reaction to the high price of the Switch 2. I had a bit of a similar sticker shock back in 2001 with the Gamecube. Not because the…
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So I finally finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth this week. Not having a PS5, I had to wait until it was available on the Steam Deck to get a chance to play it. Which was kind of annoying, since Final Fantasy VII Remake came out on PS4 and I enjoyed playing it on that just fine. Oh, and spoiler alert and all that, you have been warned. It’s funny, I don’t think I have so…
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Wow. November was my last post, huh? Well, this blog has had a lot of lapses over the years, and it’s always been my fault as I get distracted or my enthusiasm dips for a bit. But not this time! This time I was a bit shaken up by the crazy Wordpress drama that happened a few months ago, and decided that maybe I didn’t want to have my site hosted by them and built…
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Sometimes (a lot of the time) I'll look back at my blog posts and realize that there's some really big thing I've been doing or working on that would have made for an interesting blog post, and while I might post about them on my socials, like Mastodon or Tumblr, I won't ever remember to mention them here. This is going to be one of those topics, and there may be several more that I go back to shortly. In this case, I started having fun converting pixel art into vector art a while ago, and then converting the vector art to 3D that could then be sent to a 3D printer. For a while I was doing it just to have fun and print cool things for me, but after a while I thought maybe other people would be interested too, and made an Etsy shop, Minus World Prints.
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I've talked in a previous post about my love for the show GameCenter CX, a Japanese show where comedian Shinya Arino is tasked with beating a retro game by a certain time limit. The show is an hour long, and the main challenge is broken up by a couple of shorter segments throughout. The recurring one is TamaGe, where Arino visits an arcade, or at least a business that has arcade games attached to it like a candy store. One of the other segments changes from season to season. While there hasn't been a seasonal segment that I've actively disliked, there are certainly some that stand out as particularly entertaining to me. So today I'd like to talk about five of my favorite seasonal segments from GameCenter CX!
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