Rundown (6/15/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases – Slice 2
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: During My Vacation, I Wrote a Novel’s Worth of Stuff!
- Xbox Games Showcase Rundown (Games For Your Home Computer, TV, and Telephone)
- ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Announced (The Xbox Handheld is Finally Here!)
- Xbox Reasserts Play Anywhere As A Key Selling Point (But Do People Actually Want It?)
- Super Meat Boy 3D Announced Super Meat Boy is BACK in the Third Dimension
- Beast of Reincarnation Announced (Game Freak’s AAA Action Game is Real!)
- Clockwork Revolution Re-Revealed (And It Looks DOPE!)
- Don’t Nod Announces Aphelion (They Are Also Running Out of Money)
- No Ghosts At The Grand Is a Baffling Musical Mystery (Magical Musical Negro Jumpscare!)
- Aniimo Announced as the Latest Big Budget Critter Collector (Too Bad It’s a Damn Live Service!)
- Persona 4 Revival Announced (The Only Reason to Remake Persona 4 Is to Make It Gayer)
- The Xbox Showcase Dribs and Drabs (Stuff I Don’t FEEL Like Propping Up, or Have Much to Say About)
- Splatoon Raiders Announced (And Natalie Complains About PVP Games Being Bad)
- Nintendo Switch 2 Sells 3.5 Million in Four Days! (Nintendo Switch 2 Da Moon!)
- Bloober Team is Remaking Silent Hill (1999) (Try Not To Be Too Shocked)
- Metal Gear Δ: Snake Eater is Getting A New Online Mode! (RIP Metal Gear Online…)
Rundown (10/20/2024) Natalie Needs a NAS
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Needs a NAS
- The Pokémon Tera Leak (Possibly Bigger Than The Nintendo Gigaleak)
- Tribe Nine is a Perplexing RPG (I Played the Tribe Nine Demo and… What the Fuck?)
- All in Abyss is DOPE! (I Cast My Judgment, and This is The Real Shit)
- I Also Checked Out Ys X Nordics! (The ANOFO Vibe Remains Dead and Over)
- Out of the Frying Pan; Into The Firefox (I Switched to Firefox and Plugins Ruined My Site)
Rundown (7/09/2023) Jump! Back! Glock! Cock! Aim! Shoot!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Have Negative Faith In The United States of America
- The FTC PlayStation & Xbox Showcase (Some Highlights From The FTC v. Microsoft Courtroom)
- Twitter Hit The Shitter and The Internet Is Collapsing! (Natalie Rambles About The Future Of The Internet)
- It’s Time To Show My Ass As A Casual VN Fan (Natalie Wafts About the Tsukihime Remake)
- Grab a Gun And Make The Baddies Go BOOM! (Natalie Rambles About The Name Boomer Shooters)
- Yuji Naka’s Prison Escape! (Yuji Naka Avoids Jail Time And Gets $1.2 Million Fine)
- When Pokéfans Are Stuck, They Should Try Logic (Natalie Rambles About Voice Acting in Pokémon )
- Read, Think, and the Solution Will Come To You (Natalie Analyzes The Broad Financials of The Pokémon Company)
Rundown (5/14/2023) Transition Speedruns and Slowruns
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Transition Speedruns and Slowruns
- The Support Studio Network Grows Even Bigger (Keywords Studios Acquires Hardsuit Labs)
- Project Gear Attempt #6 (Game Freak and Private Division Announce Publishing Partnership)
- Salvaged from Stadia & A Discussion on Games Streaming (Stadia Exclusive Gylt is Coming to Other Platforms)
- Cloud Gaming Vs Remote Play – Battle for Streaming Superiority! (Natalie Rambles About Games Streaming)
- Mild Musings About Game Difficulty (The Trinity of Challenge – As Defined By a Bad Player)
- No Patience For Those Without Patience (Natalie Rambles About Her Plentiful Paratransit-Powered Patience)
Rundown (5/19-5/25) The Future Is Random!
This past week I finished up the first iteration of what I hope to be a new segment to go alongside my Reviews, Rundowns, and Rambles, which I’m dubbing Randoms. Randoms are short stories based on various ideas, concepts, and prompts that I either stumble across or pop into my weird brain. A segment meant to contrast my novels and novellas, which take me forever to write, and require me to commit to an idea and characters and make everything part of one big continuous multiverse. The first Random will debut on May 31st, but I am not committing to a more specific schedule going forward. Could be monthly, could be quarterly, could be whenever the hell I feel like it. Remember kids: Die Zukunft ist Zufällig.
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Rundown (9/09-9/15) Bonk This Bank!
This is such a petty thing, but the way Pokemon Bank subscriptions are handled really bothers me. At first I thought that if your subscription lapsed, you could more or less indefinitely recover your stored Pokemon, but no, they are erased from the server after a while, and then they are gone forever, which is utter nonsense, especially considering how renewing one’s subscription works. You need to wait until you have 14 days or less left on your pass before you can extend the subscription, and if you forget, say goodbye to whatever is in there. No email notifications, no nothing. I have a near complete Pokedex (I missed Marshadow a while back), a box of shinies, alternate forms, and a Ditto with 3 perfect IVs in there. Do you know how upset and fundamentally broken I would be if I were to lose all of that? More than a goldarn smidget.
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Rundown (3/19-3/25) Work Quantity is How Humans Should Be Judged
Over this past week, I’ve been working full time for the… well, I’ve worked full time before in my life, but this is the first time I spent my spring break doing it, and I have been far more strapped for time because of it. How people can manage to get home at 18:00, do some housework and eating until 19:00 and get everything they want done before 23:00 while simultaneously unwinding from work is kind of beyond me. But I guess I’ll just get used to it as, while some people can fight against the 40 hour work week, I’ll likely be in a profession where it approaches 50 during busier points of the year. So yay for that. (more…)
Pokemon Moon Review
After several months of anticipation and near weekly coverage on my weekly news segment, Pokemon Sun and Moon finally arrived to mark the 20th anniversary of this series. One that I hold very closely to myself and ultimately love, but have become incredibly critical of, as the shortcomings of a series become excruciatingly evident after playing every game in the mainline series (except for Platinum). But I’m not going to talk about those right now. For now, it’s time to talk about Pokemon Moon. (more…)
Rundown (2/14-2/20) Somebody Be My Friend and Be My Side!
…Yeah, not much to talk about this week. Yes, Kojima teased some fans by appearing at DICE 2016, and the launch of Street Fighter V upset a lot of people who did not expect the bare minimum from a game that will be built over the next four or five years. XCOM 2, which apparently is set after a failed run of Enemy Unknown, is apparently really buggy, and Sega gave away a bunch of Steam games because they felt like it. The Division had a beta that some people really enjoyed, even though I see little to no appeal in its general gameplay loop, and some other stuff happened, not much of it very interesting. (more…)
Pokemon X Review
I was originally going to publish a post about how much I adore Pokemon, along with my history with it, but I did not feel like editing that wall of text, as I can summarize my thoughts on the series with this: I bought six Pokemon plushies, have a box of old toys, seven volumes of the manga, and once walked about a mile as a four-year-old to get Pokemon toys. I freaking adore the franchise, and it is probably the most influential piece of media I’ve ever been exposed to, as without Pokemon I would not be remotely the same person. So of course I bought Pokemon X, and played it for a good 130 hours, with a couple dozen left to go. However, I want to be somewhat timely.