Rundown (3/29/2026) The Resident Evil Redemption

• Post published:03/29/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:52 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Resident Evil Redemption
• FlipWitch: Temples of Temptation Announced (That TSF Metroidvania is Getting a Sequel!)
• Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 People (Because Time Sweeney is a Small-Minded Man)
• OpenAI Kills Sora (I Cannot WAIT for the AI Bubble to Pop)
• What The Hell’s Going on With Acquisitions and Closures This Week? (Everything is Falling Apart! Aaaaaahhhh!!!)
• The PlayStation 5 Gets A $100 Price Increase (Budget Gaming is DEAD. Politics Killed It!)
• Nintendo is Charging More For Physical Games (This Was Inevitable, and Here’s Why!)

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Rundown (3/22/2026) Natalie is Afraid of Commitment!

• Post published:03/22/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Afraid of Commitment!
• Japan Established Indie Games Grant Program (Up to $62,000 USD for Indie Devs Goes A Long Way~!)
• The Subnautica 2 Situation is OVER! (Krafton Lied and Got Punished. Yay~!)
• DLSS 5 Will Turn Your Games Into AI Slop (The AI Enshittification of Life Continues)
• Neptunia Unlimited Announced (It Took A Decade for a New Numbered Neptunia… And It’s Not Even Numbered!)
• Shenmue III Enhanced Announced (You Can’t Enhance A Dead Dog!)

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Rundown (1/11/2026) The Internet is Working as Intended

• Post published:01/11/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Internet is Working as Intended
• Natalie’s Insane Pokémon Project (That She Will Never Finish)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Holiday Sales Underwhelm (And What It Means for Gaming)
• Cygames Opens up AI Studio (More like Cyg-AI-mes!)

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Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity

• Post published:12/21/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: More Like D-AI-v-AI-n-AI-ty and L-AI-r-AI-n!
• Ubisoft Acquires Amazon Games Montreal (Likely Due to Office Politics and Favors)
• GOG Wants You To Pay $5 To Help Them To Preserve Games (And I Say Do It!)
• The Hollow Knight Continues! (Silksong DLC and Hollow Knight Improvements Announced)
• Sega Channel Has Been Preserved! (Through the Power of BONDS!)
• US Video Game Hardware Had Its Worst November Since 1995 (Consoles Might Be Boned!)
• Missy Scrumptious Muses About Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension (Donut-Filled Review Appetizer)

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Rundown (12/07/2025) Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!

• Post published:12/07/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!
• Natalie Yaps About Video Game Piracy Culture (And Why It Changed!)
• Monotype is Screwing Over Japanese Devs (Their Rates Went Up Over 50x)
• Saudi Arabia Will Own 93.4% of EA (DO NOT BUY EA GAMES, EVER!)
• Somebody Hates HORSES (Why Is This Horror Game Banned on Steam?)
• Crucial is Dead, Thanks to AI (AI Companies Are Making RAM and SSD STUPID Expensive)
• Netflix Acquires Warner Bros. (Corporate Consolidation Cannot Be Stopped!)

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Rundown (6/22/2025) I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home

• Post published:06/22/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home
• Should I Run Ads on Natalie.TF? (Strictly for Tax Purposes!)
• Donkey Kong Bananza Direct (As Expected, It Looks Great!)
• Natalie Tries to Figure Out What Dating Sims Are (And the Gap in Western Romance Games)
• Switch 2 Did Not Save Gamindustri… (BIG SHOCK!!!)

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Rundown (5/11/2025) Is Crossdressing TSF?

• Post published:05/11/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:54 mins read
• Post comments:14 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Is Crossdressing a Form of TSF?
• Rundown Preamble Ramble Append: Futanari is Sometimes TSF, But Mostly it’s Own Thing
• Gears of War Reloaded Announced (Natalie Rambles About Gears of War, I Guess)
• The Video Game Industry of Money-Making (And How It’s Broken!)
• AI vs Education (Natalie Rambles About School From Afar!)

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Rundown (3/16/2025) Work This Sucker to Death

• Post published:03/16/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:24 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Work This Sucker to Death
• The Saudis Really Did Buy Pokémon Go… (Niantic Games Acquired by Scopely, Subsidiary of Saudi Arabia d.b.a. Savvy Games Group)
• Another Excuse to Dunk on Roblox (As a Reminder, Natalie is Anti-Roblox)
• Microsoft, Stop With The AI Gaming Nonsense (Microsoft Announces Copilot for Gaming)
• Silent Hill f Formally Revealed (And It Looks Pretty Darn Good!)

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Rundown (2/23/2025) But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community

• Post published:02/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community
• Marvel Rivals Dev Team Has Been Laid Off (Security Through Success is a Logical Fallacy)
• Natalie Is Gonna Give Away Hundreds of Steam Keys (Because Ziff Davis Enshittified Humble Bundle!)
• Saudi Arabia’s Pokémon Go is A-Go! (Niantic Is Selling Their Games Division to Saudi Arabia’s Scopely)
• Microsoft Pivots into AI Gaming (Forgetting That AI is Too Stupid to Remaster Classic Games)
• Nobody Expects The… Samurai Pizza Cats? (Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past Announced)

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Rundown (2/02/2025) Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties

• Post published:02/02/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties
• Dino Crisis Has Been Re-Released! (Thanks to the Dedication of GOG!)
• The Sims 1 and 2 Re-Released! (Because Anything’s Better Than The Sims 4!)
• MultiVersus’s Not So Sudden Death (MultiVersus’s End of Service Announced)
• Shit Sucks, But Here Are Some Good Things I Saw This Weeks (A Last Gasp While Wrapping Up This Rundown)

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Rundown (1/12/2025) Pedantic Porn Problems

• Post published:01/12/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:32 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pedantic Porn Problems
• Video Game Movies Are Go! (Sony Pictures Needs Hits Badly)
• Nvivida Wants You To Use AI to Beautify Women in Games (Nvidia Will Un-DEI Femoid Faces!)
• SteamOS is Evolving! (And The Cheap PC Market is Kinda Bonkers)
• The House of the Dead 2 Remake Properly Announced (Because People Need Another Bad Remake…)
• Warui Slime Janai yo by Pandanuki is… Deranged (I Guess This Counts as a TF Showcase)

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Rundown (1/05/2025) A Body Swap Episode Conundrum

• Post published:01/05/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:14 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Body Swap Episode Conundrum
• A Surprise Game Boy Advance Tangent (I Actually Like The Modern Decade-Long Console Lifespans…)
• Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is Getting Remastered! (Capitalism Hoooooo~?~?~?~)
• New Year, New AI Musings (I Really Wish AI Tools Could Help Me With Anything…)

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Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder

• Post published:05/12/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:63 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder 
• TSF Showcase 2024-19 Change Ring by Kawaii Tsun’aho
• TSF Showcase 2024-19.1 Change Ring the Manga by Kawaii Tsun’aho and MPZ
• Student Transfer V8 is Coming Soon! (The Murder Route is Finally Getting Replaced!)
• re:Dreamer is Back, Bay-Bee! (re:Dreamer Version 0.18.0 Releases After 7 Month Delay)
• Microsoft Murders Arkane Austin and Tango GameWorks (Technically They Also Killed Alpha Dog and Consolidated Roundhouse…)
• Another AI Generated Image Musing (No, I’m Not Going to Become An AI Pundit)
• Yes, Nintendo Switch 2 is Happening, But You Gotta Wait! (The Switch-2.0-Roadmap)
• Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Announced (Better Than Nothing, Worse Than You’d Expect)

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Natalie Rambles About 2023

• Post published:12/27/2023
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:127 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

IBNTEVI RJI SETLMIDD UG TIEKORP EMS IZYITOIMVI TI;NOTRJ!!!

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Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!

• Post published:03/26/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-11 One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident by KPmouse 
• TSF Showcase #2023-12 Ranma Video Essays
• Ranma ½ Changed Me by Mathwiz
• The Anime That Cracks Your Egg – Ranma 1/2 & Queerness by ShaggyJebus 
• Atari’s Tentacles Gobbled Up The Dive Boys! (Atari Acquires Nightdive Studios)
• Honor Your Rights, Or Your Rights Don’t Mean Shit! (Natalie Complains About Nintendo’s Continued Destruction of Their History)
• EA Continues to Excel At Executions (EA Announces Delisting of Mirror’s Edge and Three Battlefield Games)
• Valve Is Re-Upping Their Cash Cow (Counter Strike 2 Will Replace Counter-Strike: Global Offensive This Summer)
• Instead of Supporting an Overpriced Sonic Compilation, Sega Is Charging An Extra $10 (Sonic Origins: The Better Version Announced)
• Make My Nep-Nep Grow! (Neptunia: GameMaker R:Evolution Announced)
• Oh Shit Son! It’s Tax Time: The Visual Novel! (Tax Heaven 3000 Announced)
• Unity AI Slipped Under My Radar! Embrace AI or Die For JUSTICE! (Unity AI Announced & More Calls For Revolution and Heroic Sacrifice)
• Video and Recording Is A Nightmare! (Natalie Finished Saving 200+ GB of SapphireFoxx Content)

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Rundown (3/19/2023) Natalie Watched A “TSF” Playlist  

• Post published:03/19/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-10 A ‘TSF’ Playlist From Charishal
• Boku Girl and the Anxious Body by Pause and Select
• Inside Mari – The Psychology of Gender Bender Manga by Otakukahn
• Jun to Kaoru – The Small Gender Bender Manga That Had Potential by Otakukahn
• Everyone is Wrong about Onimai by Gomi-San
• Is It Wrong To Genderswap Characters? – Art Commentary by Fionapollo
• Are gender swaps ever successful? by Bookborn 
• The Unexplored Ethics of Body Swaps by Council of Geeks
• What the HELL are GENDERSWAP Episodes? by Saberspark
• Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Too Big for 2023 (Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Being Delayed to 2024)
• As Penance, This Bitch Is Going Back to the Scenario Goldmine (Student Transfer Scenario Reviews Will Resume May 2023)
• Looks Like AI is Here To Stay! (Microsoft Continues Going All Out With AI Integration)
• Oh Shit! Fortnite Really is The Next Roblox! (Fortnite Unreal Editor Announced)

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