2025) Should Self-Employment Tax Be Abolished? (No!)

Post published:05/18/2025
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:48 mins read
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Burning infographic discussing self-employment taxes, featuring a visual representation of tax calculations, alongside pixel art characters. The title reads 'Should Self-Employment Tax Be Abolished?'

This Week’s Topics:

Rundown Preamble Ramble: Love Social Security, Hate Social Security Tax!
Giant Bomb is Independent (Fuck The Corpos, Stay Indie, Die Indie!)
Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Was Canceled (And Natalie Misses The Art of the B-Game Spin-Off Point, Just in General)
Tribe Nine EOS Announced After 3 Months (The Mobile Games Industry is BRUTAL!)
Persona 5: The Phantom X Announced For Global Release (The Mobile Games Industry is Nasty!)
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Bombed (Natalie Rambles About SNK History, Because Why Not?)

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Rundown (4/10-4/16) Taxing Times

Post published:04/17/2022
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:14 mins read
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Wherein I discuss tax time woes, acquisition woes, the Post-Dark Seeker Saga, a beauteous remaster, Activision taking their abuse to the justice system, and a weird yet DOPE TSF comic.

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Rundown (10/03-10/09) Minor Tangents of the Mature Variety

Post published:10/10/2021
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:15 mins read
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Wherein I discuss matters I really ought not to mention, a simple and clean end to a saga, the death of a dastard, the breach of the streaming juggernaut, a trilogy that is now ethically free, and a perplexingly named zombie fiesta.

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Rundown (2/07-2/13) Welcome to Tax Hell

Post published:02/14/2021
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Reading time:15 mins read
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Wherein I discuss even more gosh darn acquisitions, an attempt to bring back a gaming convention, the revival of possible military propaganda, and the expansion of a series both simple and clean.

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Rundown (9/13-9/19) TGS 2015: Darkest Despair!

Post published:09/20/2015
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Reading time:15 mins read
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I’m not sure how often I’ve brought this up, but I think that Free to Play games were among the worst things to happen to the industry in recent years, and there have been a lot since I got in this industry’s intestines, mostly the large one, where poop is dried out, around 2006. But after reading this little piece by somebody who has been getting neck deep in whale blood as his employers tried to manipulate individuals with mental problems for the sexiest thing in the mortal world, Kentucky granola, also known as USD, I feel I have an opportunity that I shall not waste, if only because I love the line and it is mostly true. Free to play games were a mistake; they’re nothing but trash. I hope they are outlawed by 2033, when the Great African War begins and half of it is destroyed by a nuclear explosion. Buy War Bonds in preparation of the war to end all wars! (more…)

Rundown (9/06-9/12) Chronologically Correct Sonic OSTs

Post published:09/13/2015
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:5 mins read
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I am surprised that Sega has not tried to shut down Sonic World, as it is basically a refined and reworked best-of compilation of Sonic Adventure 1, 2, and Heroes, all games I grew up with and love in a way, even if they don’t play very well. But seeing that combined with enough care and autistic fan devotion to add in every possible playable character from Heavy and Bomb to Fang the Sniper makes me jitter in sheer disbelief that this is real. True, I only played two levels of the game as Knuckles before I realized that this game was definitely still in an alpha or pre-alpha state and put it down, but if it is ever completed, this fan-game may very well be the best Sonic game. (more…)