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Fantasy | Sci-fi | Movies | Video Games | D&D
Fantasy | Sci-fi | Movies | Video Games | D&D
Elio is a delight! It’s a reverse-ET space adventure full of heart, really great comedic timing and over-the-top animation! But I guess Disney didn’t know how to market it because it has a brown lead? Take your kids and have a great time!
4/5
4/5
July 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Elio is a delight! It’s a reverse-ET space adventure full of heart, really great comedic timing and over-the-top animation! But I guess Disney didn’t know how to market it because it has a brown lead? Take your kids and have a great time!
4/5
4/5
I wouldn’t recommend The Materialists, but I could talk about it a lot. It’s gorgeous, with stellar performances from everyone involved. Its about relationships, and clearly has a lot on its mind but never really settles on anything coherent. Great to look at with not enough to chew on.
3/5
3/5
June 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I wouldn’t recommend The Materialists, but I could talk about it a lot. It’s gorgeous, with stellar performances from everyone involved. Its about relationships, and clearly has a lot on its mind but never really settles on anything coherent. Great to look at with not enough to chew on.
3/5
3/5
2025 Reads #12
DNF. Came into this book expecting occult/cult horror but instead found page after page of straight up xenophobia. Gave it up after 150 pages or so and I’m probably done with Dan Simmons even though I love Hyperion.
1/5
DNF. Came into this book expecting occult/cult horror but instead found page after page of straight up xenophobia. Gave it up after 150 pages or so and I’m probably done with Dan Simmons even though I love Hyperion.
1/5
June 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
2025 Reads #12
DNF. Came into this book expecting occult/cult horror but instead found page after page of straight up xenophobia. Gave it up after 150 pages or so and I’m probably done with Dan Simmons even though I love Hyperion.
1/5
DNF. Came into this book expecting occult/cult horror but instead found page after page of straight up xenophobia. Gave it up after 150 pages or so and I’m probably done with Dan Simmons even though I love Hyperion.
1/5
Bring Her Back is a masterful showcase of dread. From moment one it showers you in horrific images, sounds and situations. It hits from every conceivable angle to eat at you and keep you squirming in your seat. This one is for the real horror sickos and NO ONE ELSE.
5/5.
5/5.
June 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Bring Her Back is a masterful showcase of dread. From moment one it showers you in horrific images, sounds and situations. It hits from every conceivable angle to eat at you and keep you squirming in your seat. This one is for the real horror sickos and NO ONE ELSE.
5/5.
5/5.
I’m a nerd, apparently.
May 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I’m a nerd, apparently.
Had some friends over this week to play some Wingspan and it was really good for my heart. Need more good times with good people! Got my butt kicked! Would do again!
May 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Had some friends over this week to play some Wingspan and it was really good for my heart. Need more good times with good people! Got my butt kicked! Would do again!
Nana Kwame wields words the way his protagonist wields her hammer—all huge swings and destructive force. It’s writing where you feel every line in your teeth. It’s sci-fi aimed at US prisons and deserves to sit among The Handmaid’s Tale and Parable of the Sower in terms of insight and impact.
5/5
5/5
May 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Nana Kwame wields words the way his protagonist wields her hammer—all huge swings and destructive force. It’s writing where you feel every line in your teeth. It’s sci-fi aimed at US prisons and deserves to sit among The Handmaid’s Tale and Parable of the Sower in terms of insight and impact.
5/5
5/5
Day 13: Favorite Class or Fighting Style
My dream is just to be a magic swordsman: FF5’s Paladin or FF7’s Added Affect materia that lets you attack and do elemental damage or status effects.
That or gimme a shotgun.
My dream is just to be a magic swordsman: FF5’s Paladin or FF7’s Added Affect materia that lets you attack and do elemental damage or status effects.
That or gimme a shotgun.
February 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Day 13: Favorite Class or Fighting Style
My dream is just to be a magic swordsman: FF5’s Paladin or FF7’s Added Affect materia that lets you attack and do elemental damage or status effects.
That or gimme a shotgun.
My dream is just to be a magic swordsman: FF5’s Paladin or FF7’s Added Affect materia that lets you attack and do elemental damage or status effects.
That or gimme a shotgun.
Day 13: Best Voice Acting
The thing is, the entire time you’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3, you can’t help but realize what a high bar all the vocal performances are setting.
Then you hear Samantha Beart TRULY bring it at the end of Karlach’s story. Astounding work.
The thing is, the entire time you’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3, you can’t help but realize what a high bar all the vocal performances are setting.
Then you hear Samantha Beart TRULY bring it at the end of Karlach’s story. Astounding work.
February 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Day 13: Best Voice Acting
The thing is, the entire time you’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3, you can’t help but realize what a high bar all the vocal performances are setting.
Then you hear Samantha Beart TRULY bring it at the end of Karlach’s story. Astounding work.
The thing is, the entire time you’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3, you can’t help but realize what a high bar all the vocal performances are setting.
Then you hear Samantha Beart TRULY bring it at the end of Karlach’s story. Astounding work.
Day 12: Most Annoying Character
The Duck Hunt Dog made me so embarrassingly mad as a kid. Just a perfectly designed troll of a character.
The Duck Hunt Dog made me so embarrassingly mad as a kid. Just a perfectly designed troll of a character.
February 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Day 12: Most Annoying Character
The Duck Hunt Dog made me so embarrassingly mad as a kid. Just a perfectly designed troll of a character.
The Duck Hunt Dog made me so embarrassingly mad as a kid. Just a perfectly designed troll of a character.
Day 11: Comfort Game
When I start my bi-yearly playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics, my wife asks me if I’m doing okay.
When I start my bi-yearly playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics, my wife asks me if I’m doing okay.
February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Day 11: Comfort Game
When I start my bi-yearly playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics, my wife asks me if I’m doing okay.
When I start my bi-yearly playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics, my wife asks me if I’m doing okay.
Day 10: Underrated Game
Return of the Obra Dinn is correctly rated in online video game circles, but none of my friends will play it.
No matter how much I talk about it.
Maybe BECAUSE of how much I talk about it.
Return of the Obra Dinn is correctly rated in online video game circles, but none of my friends will play it.
No matter how much I talk about it.
Maybe BECAUSE of how much I talk about it.
February 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Day 10: Underrated Game
Return of the Obra Dinn is correctly rated in online video game circles, but none of my friends will play it.
No matter how much I talk about it.
Maybe BECAUSE of how much I talk about it.
Return of the Obra Dinn is correctly rated in online video game circles, but none of my friends will play it.
No matter how much I talk about it.
Maybe BECAUSE of how much I talk about it.
Day 9: Favorite Antagonist.
Weigraf from Final Fantasy Tactics, easy. A character with noble ambitions, who could be the hero of a different game, slowly torn down by the systems of power he fights against.
Weigraf has been the high-water mark for antagonist writing for a long, long time.
Weigraf from Final Fantasy Tactics, easy. A character with noble ambitions, who could be the hero of a different game, slowly torn down by the systems of power he fights against.
Weigraf has been the high-water mark for antagonist writing for a long, long time.
January 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Day 9: Favorite Antagonist.
Weigraf from Final Fantasy Tactics, easy. A character with noble ambitions, who could be the hero of a different game, slowly torn down by the systems of power he fights against.
Weigraf has been the high-water mark for antagonist writing for a long, long time.
Weigraf from Final Fantasy Tactics, easy. A character with noble ambitions, who could be the hero of a different game, slowly torn down by the systems of power he fights against.
Weigraf has been the high-water mark for antagonist writing for a long, long time.
Day 8: Favorite Protagonist.
I love games with big ensembles casts, but there aren’t many games where the main character is my favorite character. So it’s extra impressive that Ichiban Kasuga is objectively the best character in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Just an earnest, fun, charismatic dude.
I love games with big ensembles casts, but there aren’t many games where the main character is my favorite character. So it’s extra impressive that Ichiban Kasuga is objectively the best character in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Just an earnest, fun, charismatic dude.
January 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Day 8: Favorite Protagonist.
I love games with big ensembles casts, but there aren’t many games where the main character is my favorite character. So it’s extra impressive that Ichiban Kasuga is objectively the best character in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Just an earnest, fun, charismatic dude.
I love games with big ensembles casts, but there aren’t many games where the main character is my favorite character. So it’s extra impressive that Ichiban Kasuga is objectively the best character in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Just an earnest, fun, charismatic dude.
Day 7: Favorite Multi-player or MMO.
I gave YEARS of my life to Super Smash Bros Melee, and I’d still gladly sit and play all day.
I gave YEARS of my life to Super Smash Bros Melee, and I’d still gladly sit and play all day.
January 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Day 7: Favorite Multi-player or MMO.
I gave YEARS of my life to Super Smash Bros Melee, and I’d still gladly sit and play all day.
I gave YEARS of my life to Super Smash Bros Melee, and I’d still gladly sit and play all day.
Day 6: Best World Building
This prompt makes me want to replay Pyre. It’s one of the few games where I spent time in the codex, learning as much as possible about the factions and history and characters of the world.
This prompt makes me want to replay Pyre. It’s one of the few games where I spent time in the codex, learning as much as possible about the factions and history and characters of the world.
January 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Day 6: Best World Building
This prompt makes me want to replay Pyre. It’s one of the few games where I spent time in the codex, learning as much as possible about the factions and history and characters of the world.
This prompt makes me want to replay Pyre. It’s one of the few games where I spent time in the codex, learning as much as possible about the factions and history and characters of the world.
Day 5: Game that deserves a remake.
I would immediately she’ll out $60 for a Parasite Eve remake in the style of the Resident Evil remakes.
I would immediately she’ll out $60 for a Parasite Eve remake in the style of the Resident Evil remakes.
January 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Day 5: Game that deserves a remake.
I would immediately she’ll out $60 for a Parasite Eve remake in the style of the Resident Evil remakes.
I would immediately she’ll out $60 for a Parasite Eve remake in the style of the Resident Evil remakes.
Day 4: Currently Playing.
I’m making my way through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Octopath Traveller 2, and Vagrant Story.
I’m making my way through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Octopath Traveller 2, and Vagrant Story.
January 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Day 4: Currently Playing.
I’m making my way through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Octopath Traveller 2, and Vagrant Story.
I’m making my way through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Octopath Traveller 2, and Vagrant Story.
Day 3: Hardest Boss Fight.
I’ve beaten like, Bloodborne and Elden Ring, but what sticks out in my mind is getting to the last boss in the Undertale Genocide route at 1AM, thinking I was 15 minutes from finishing the game, then actually rolling credits at 7AM.
I’ve beaten like, Bloodborne and Elden Ring, but what sticks out in my mind is getting to the last boss in the Undertale Genocide route at 1AM, thinking I was 15 minutes from finishing the game, then actually rolling credits at 7AM.
December 31, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Day 3: Hardest Boss Fight.
I’ve beaten like, Bloodborne and Elden Ring, but what sticks out in my mind is getting to the last boss in the Undertale Genocide route at 1AM, thinking I was 15 minutes from finishing the game, then actually rolling credits at 7AM.
I’ve beaten like, Bloodborne and Elden Ring, but what sticks out in my mind is getting to the last boss in the Undertale Genocide route at 1AM, thinking I was 15 minutes from finishing the game, then actually rolling credits at 7AM.
Day 2: Most Hours in a Game
I 100% the original Binding of Isaac, then put another 150 hours into Rebirth. But I also replay Final Fantasy Tactics once or twice a year, so probably that.
I 100% the original Binding of Isaac, then put another 150 hours into Rebirth. But I also replay Final Fantasy Tactics once or twice a year, so probably that.
December 30, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Day 2: Most Hours in a Game
I 100% the original Binding of Isaac, then put another 150 hours into Rebirth. But I also replay Final Fantasy Tactics once or twice a year, so probably that.
I 100% the original Binding of Isaac, then put another 150 hours into Rebirth. But I also replay Final Fantasy Tactics once or twice a year, so probably that.
I’m a sucker for these!
Day 1: I honestly don’t remember a time before video games. Pretty sure I played Super Mario Bros. 3 before the original, so I’ll say that?
Day 1: I honestly don’t remember a time before video games. Pretty sure I played Super Mario Bros. 3 before the original, so I’ll say that?
December 30, 2024 at 3:20 AM
I’m a sucker for these!
Day 1: I honestly don’t remember a time before video games. Pretty sure I played Super Mario Bros. 3 before the original, so I’ll say that?
Day 1: I honestly don’t remember a time before video games. Pretty sure I played Super Mario Bros. 3 before the original, so I’ll say that?
I’ve been reading -wide- for a long while. Trying to start a bunch of different series and try out a bunch of different authors.
This year, I want to focus on reading -deep-. I want to give time and space for authors that I’ve really connected with. Here’s what I’ll start the year with!
This year, I want to focus on reading -deep-. I want to give time and space for authors that I’ve really connected with. Here’s what I’ll start the year with!
December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I’ve been reading -wide- for a long while. Trying to start a bunch of different series and try out a bunch of different authors.
This year, I want to focus on reading -deep-. I want to give time and space for authors that I’ve really connected with. Here’s what I’ll start the year with!
This year, I want to focus on reading -deep-. I want to give time and space for authors that I’ve really connected with. Here’s what I’ll start the year with!
Reading Butler is weird and challenging in a way I want all sci-fi to be. She takes these tropes and makes you sit with them, makes you think about how they would change -people- not just society. On that front, Wild Seed is solid but feels like a rerun on ideas done better in Dawn.
3/5
3/5
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Reading Butler is weird and challenging in a way I want all sci-fi to be. She takes these tropes and makes you sit with them, makes you think about how they would change -people- not just society. On that front, Wild Seed is solid but feels like a rerun on ideas done better in Dawn.
3/5
3/5
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20
#Books
#BookSky
#BookSkyChallenge
#ITeachEnglish
#EduSky
Day 20
#Books
#BookSky
#BookSkyChallenge
#ITeachEnglish
#EduSky
December 22, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20
#Books
#BookSky
#BookSkyChallenge
#ITeachEnglish
#EduSky
Day 20
#Books
#BookSky
#BookSkyChallenge
#ITeachEnglish
#EduSky