Rundown (9/17/2023) Natalie is a TOS Violation

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  • Reading time:114 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Why Natalie cannot be trusted on any major platform
  • A wackadoo TSF manga from my magic bag
  • TF trials and tribulations
  • The inevitable death of Mario Kart 9 (or 13)
  • Embracer’s quest to liquidate
  • Unity’s endeavor to make things worse for everyone
  • A definitional diatribe only Natalie cares about
  • Another Nintendo Direct rundown
  • A half-assed State of Play rundown
  • Wizardry Re;Birth
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Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers

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  • Reading time:58 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Remix Heart Gaiden: The Better Version
  • An utterly unhinged school body swap comic
  • A gluey acquisition
  • Sony buying an audio company
  • The worst PlayStation handheld.
  • A Mario for a new generation!
  • Denuvo is trying to ruin everything!
  • Epic Games’ ‘big’ profit share
  • The eradication of platform identity
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Rundown (8/20/2023) The Quest for Quantified Quality

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  • Reading time:66 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • The NEED to turn art into a number
  • A BlazBlue manga I read to appease my Cassie
  • NetEase is back with another expansion!
  • The dastards who screwed over Embracer Group
  • The 18.5 year 360 of life and death
  • Wishing for the end of modern development schedules
  • A body swap formatting dilemma
  • Region locking vs. autistic archivists (archivists always win)
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Rundown (8/13/2023) Enrolled Agent of Chaos

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  • Reading time:47 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Natalie’s professional achievements
  • A TSF comic featuring one impossible girl
  • A tangent about girls with penises
  • Emulation and collection woes
  • Further proof that Verde’s Doohickey is an Act Of Plagiarism
  • A Rockstar takeover
  • The Red Dead let down
  • A plethora of Pokémon presents
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Rundown (8/06/2023) Nothing Like the First Time

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  • Reading time:38 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • The hunt for meaning through new experiences
  • A TSF manga that should have been much better
  • The dread of going back to older generations of Pokémon
  • Musings about Nintendo’s second tablet
  • A rema(ke)(ster) of Oblivion
  • A semi-regular update on Natalie.TF projects
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Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

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  • Reading time:52 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • One of Natalie’s favorite music people dropped a HOT new mixtape!
  • A transition related retrospective and analysis
  • The return of Natalie’s weekly dose of TSF translated goodness
  • TSF Showcase 2023: All You Can Eat! Summer 6 Comic Works Mix
  • The power of worker solidarity
  • The confusing pricing models for gaming subscription services
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Rundown (7/16/2023) Falling Down The Helly Tree!

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  • Reading time:44 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Natalie’s latest file hoarding excursion and post-2027 plans
  • A legal update on the biggest video game acquisition of all time
  • Tencent’s expansion continues unimpeded
  • The straight dope on how BAD game preservation is
  • The Limited Run Games’ summer showcase
  • Delays of all July reviews
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Rundown (7/09/2023) Jump! Back! Glock! Cock! Aim! Shoot!

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  • Reading time:53 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Political wafting and revolution promotion
  • The legal battle for the future of gaming
  • The impending death of Twitter (and the internet)
  • A genre terminology diatribe
  • Yuji Naka in… Prison Escape
  • Getting into some TRUTHS about the Pokémon series
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Rundown (7/02/2023) Thanks Cap, You Made Me Write a Novel of Lore!

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  • Reading time:31 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • A VD2.0 progress update
  • The ‘magic users as oppressed minority’ trope
  • Complaining about Nintendo and Switch 2 discourse
  • The idea that games should ‘let players be creative’
  •  A remaster that is doomed for disaster
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Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!

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  • Reading time:54 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • The BEST TSF idea book
  • A Loose Ranma Ramble (inspired by Chari)
  • Why it is ethically and logically correct to take digital copies of every delisted Nintendo game
  • Bye-Bye Battlefield
  • Counter-Strike 2² bay-bee!
  • Sonic Origins: The Better But Not Good Enough Version
  • Another new Nep-Nep (Feat. BIG MODE)
  • Tell this waifu your social security number because Intuit is evil!
  • AI is the next generation of game development (maybe)
  • Horde for Power – SapphicFuxx Part²²²²
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Rundown (3/19/2023) Natalie Watched A “TSF” Playlist  

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  • Reading time:49 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Natalie rambles about TSF-Adjacent videos.
  • Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 is being delayed to 2024
  • Student Transfer Scenario Reviews are coming back in May
  • The enticing appeal yet disappointing reality of AI
  • One of the most popular games in the world getting better creator rools
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Rundown (3/05/2023) Natalie Remembered SapphireFoxx

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  • Reading time:43 mins read
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This week’s Topics:

  • Natalie Rambles About another TSF content creator
  • Natalie goes into frustrating detail about downloading files from the internet
  • The continued dread of being a Pokémon fan
  • The remaster/remake/revision of a classic visual novel trilogy
  • The history of Final Fantasy XV (and Luminous Studios, I guess)
  • Why Natalie barely got anything done this past week
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Rundown (2/26/2023) Natalie Talks About Some TSF Critiques

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  • Reading time:45 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Natalie Rambles About Some TSF Critiques
  • A double dose of acquisitions
  • A voyage in subtitling hell
  • The delisting (and relisting) of a famous game for SEO
  • The director of Resident Evil 4 leaving his company
  • A crisis of productivity and purpose
  • My next novel becoming a trilogy
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Rundown (2/19/2023) Natalie Continues Reading TSF History

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  • Reading time:39 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • A loose ‘review’ of one of the earliest TSF manga
  • A loose ‘review’ of the first modern body swap story
  • The growing budgets of the AAA games industry
  • The end of an obscure TSF visual novel
  • The end of the Greatest Podcast of All-Time
  • Delays due to Natalie’s insanity
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Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)

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  • Reading time:97 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • The OG Queen of F2M TSF Manga
  • Gushing about fetish analysis
  • Musings about digital public libraries
  • A reminder that AAA games are not the real video games
  • Nina Tendo’s biannual digest
  • Stanning the number one coke whore
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Rundown (1/29/2023) Dragalia Lives

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  • Reading time:24 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Dragalia Lost’s reverse engineered private server is live!
  • Wizard game discourse
  • More discussions regarding media that sexualizes children
  • The depowering and replacement of an abuser
  • Proletariat’s CEO forcing workers to cancel unionization plans
  • A game Natalie wants to love… but can’t!
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Rundown (1/22/2023) DRM Has Ruined Books

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  • Reading time:56 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Why the digital age makes Natalie hate books
  • Analyzing a AAA game budget using BOOTLEG MATH!
  • Why The Last of Us (2013) is bad, actually
  • Translation purists (the worst kind of anime fan)
  • Forspoken‘s awful first 20 minutes
  • A remaster of the greatest friendship killer
  • The end of Halo as the world knows it
  • AVENGERS_EOS
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Rundown (12/18/2022) Natalie’s Going In For Bottom Surgery!

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  • Reading time:21 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

  • Tencent bought 20% of that anime booty game.
  • The continued purging of HBO Max to avoid residuals
  • A ‘remaster’ of 2005’s Ys: The Oath in Felghana
  • The next retroactive adventure of Adol Christin
  • Amazon’s next Tomb Raider game
  • The END of the Pokémon anime (as we know it)
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Rundown (11/20-11/26) Student Transfer Version 7.0 is Out!!!

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  • Reading time:30 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: The release of another massive TSF visual novel update. A remaster with a 99% chance of being real. Why the Switch is a tablet! The English release of a long forgotten Japan-only shooter. The re;birth of the queen of TG Captions. Why Natalie does not do video stuff. And the end of Dragalia for the umpteenth time.

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