Rundown (8/04/2024) Swap Bodies and Have Sex While I Watch

• Post published:08/04/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Swap Bodies and Have Sex While I Watch
• A Brief Aside About SwapHouse (A Face Swapping Harem RomCom?)
• ToHeart Is Back, Bay-Bee! (ToHeart Remake Announced)
• Europeans, Sign This Petition To Save Gaming! (Stop Killing Games Progress Update!)
• Natalie Rambles About CRT And Retro Gaming Displays (Respect The Pixels!)
• OpenCritic Has Been Acquired by Valnet (The Gaming Press Continues to Shrink…)
• ROMhacking.net Is Creasing Operations (20 Years of Progress Abruptly Stops)
• Game Informer Is Dead (GameStop Has Ended the Longest Running Games Publication in America)

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Rundown (7/21/2024) Prepping for Four Months of Agony…

• Post published:07/21/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Prepping for Four Months of Agony…
• Disney Epic Leaks! (Hackers Released 1.1 TB of Internal Documents From Disney)
• Emio is Famicom Detective Club 3! (Famicom Detective Club 3: Emio – The Smiling Man Announced)
• Ranma ½ is BACK! (New Ranma ½ Anime Reveal Trailer Dropped)
• KoRobo, A Chibi-Robo Spiritual Successor Announced! (Kickstart Chibi-Robo 4, Ya Rat Bastards!)

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Rundown (4/28/2024) The Masturbation Conundrum

• Post published:04/28/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:89 mins read
• Post comments:19 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Masturbation Conundrum
• TSF Showcase 2024-17 The Auto-Closet by Kristen O
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.1 One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.2 Two Sexy Errors by SapphireFoxx
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.3 Shifting Roommates: One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.4 One Sexy Error: Role Reversal by SapphireFoxx
• I Spent Too Much Time Playing PokéRogue, so Now I Gotta Contentize It (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Rogue of A Risky Rainy Randomness)
• Unembraced Entities (The Embracer Group Announces Disbandment)
• Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part III (Pixiv Restricts R18 Works For All US and UK Residents)
• The Game Industry Hates Games And Libraries Too (ESA Refuses to Assist Libraries With Game Preservation)
• Infogrames is Back Bay-Bee! (Atari Relaunches Infogrames Brand After 20 Years Because I Don’t Know!)
• Nintendo Hates You And Everyone Too (Nintendo Removes All Nintendo-Related Uploads From Garry’s Mod)

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Rundown (3/17/2024) Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic

• Post published:03/17/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic
• TSF Showcase 2024-11 Becoming Lindsay by CasualCraig69 & Someone From Internet Art
• Sweet Baby and the Most Disgustingly Sour Babies (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.)
• An Anti-Cheat Conundrum (Natalie Rambles About Why Multiplayer Gaming Is Bad Part ⅓)

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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 (12/17/2023) Year-End Hustle & Bustle

• Post published:12/17/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Year-End Hustle & Bustle
• TSF Showcase 2023-42 Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly] by Mogetama (Tanakamori Yokota)
• TSF Showcase 2023-43 Jinzou Shoujo [Artificial Girl] by Natsume Satoru
• There Is No We or Us, Only Y’all and Me (Natalie Bitches About Being Lumped Into Groups)
• Don’t Worry, I Won’t Bitch About The Last of Us Again (The Last of Us Online Has Been Canceled)

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Rundown (12/10/2023) Good Night Gamindustri, See Ya Next Year!

• Post published:12/10/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:57 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Game Awards Happened!
• TSF Showcase 2023-41 Ame Nochi Hare [Clear Up After Rain] by Bikke
• A Prophecy Fulfilled, A Decade Later (Grand Theft Auto VI Announced)
• The Game Awards Had Too Many New Game Announcements… (The Big The Game Awards Rundown)
• Brothers: A Tale of Development Shenanigans (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Announced)
• Aw SHIT! The Genshin-Likes Are Here! (Natalie Learned What Arknights: Endfield Is)
• From Ragnarök , We Venture to Valhalla (God of War 5: Ragnarök – Valhalla DLC Announced)
• Don’t Fly Me to that Moon! It’ll CRUNCH Me! (Moon Studio Announces No Rest for the Wicked)
• SEGA IS BACK, BAY-BEE!!! (Sega Gives Natalie a Heart Attack by Announcing Five Reboots at Once)
• SPARKING! 4 Neo Zero (Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 Re-Revealed as Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero)
• 16 Years Later, Similar Vision (Visions of Mana Announced)
• Odd Overdose Overdrive (Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios Announce OD)
• The Dino Lore of Natalie & Cassie Ramble About The Jurassic Park Hexalogy Continues! (Jurassic Park: Survival Announced)
• Life is Strange is a Strange Entity… (Don’t Nod’s Life is Strange Successor, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Announced)
• My Love For You is Like a Truck… BERSERKER!!! (The First Berserker: Khazan Announced)
• The Gulags of Gun Games (An Obligatory Acknowledgement of A Nexon and Two Tencent Games)
• Marvel Continues to License AAA Game Projects (Arkane Lyon is Developing Marvel’s Blade)
• It’s a Wild World Out There, so Rise Up, Young Monster Hunter! (Monster Hunter Wilds Announced)
• From Sci-Fi To Fantasy… Shouldn’t It Be The Other Way Around? (Hello Games Announces Light No Fire)
• A Reminder That Digital Ownership is a Sham (Sony Steals Hundreds of Shows From Its Customers)
• A Pronoun Problem (A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update and Preview)

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Rundown (10/15/2023) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic!

• Post published:10/15/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumu Kojou [Nightmare Factory]: Tax Tax Panic!
• TSF Showcase #2023-32 What Happens When You Gender Bend Close Friends With A Magic App lol by Ue ni Aru Mikan
• TSF Showcase #2023-33 Raiden Shogun Is My Wife?! by TadxSarah
• Microsoft Now 100% Owns Activision Blizzard (UK Gives the OK to the Activision Blizzard Acquisition)
• John Riccitiello is Getting a Golden Parachute (Unity is Still Doomed Though)
• PlayStation 5 Slim Stealth Dropped (NEW PlayStation 5 Announced)
• The Internet Is Dying By Design (Natalie’s Platform and Preservation Nightmare)

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Rundown (10/08/2023) If You Don’t Like ‘Em, Kill ‘Em!

• Post published:10/08/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:30 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: If You Don’t Like ‘Em, Kill ‘Em!
• TSF Showcase 2023-31 Crossed Signals by Cinnamon Switch
• Bury The 3DS and Wii U Before the Switch 2 is Even Announced (3DS and Wii U Online Services Will End in April 2024)
• How The Frick is Epic Games In Trouble? (Epic Games Announces Pricing Changes Amid Financial Problems)

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Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

• Post published:07/23/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:36 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dude Whatever It’s Summer Is Back, Bay-Bee!
• Aiming For Unattractive! (Natalie The Eternal Enigma)
• Espeon is Back With The Lewd TSF Goodness! (Gender.tf is BACK, Bay-bee!)
• TSF Showcase #2023-15 TS o Suru. Seidorei ni Naru (Change Sex and Become a Sex Slave) by Tansan Protein no kai
• TSF Showcase #2023-16 JK Kuricha ni Sareta Otoko (High Schooler Who Got Turned Into a Creature) by Marialite
• TSF Showcase #2023-17 Slow Conversion by Onihidden
• TSF Showcase #2023-18 Joshikousei Sennyuu Repo ~Hanzaisha ga Onnanoko ni Hyoui shite mita~ [Schoolgirl Infiltration Report] by Marialite
• TSF Showcase #2023-19 Sexaroids vs. Reseller by Kouji
• TSF Showcase #2023-20 Professional Possession by Imp Underneath
• Screw it, Let’s Talk About the SAG-AFTRA Strike (Capitalism Ruins Everything – Part 37)
• Natalie is Confused by the New Game Pass Subscription Tiers (Xbox Live Gold is Now Game Pass Core)

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Natalie Rambles About 2022

• Post published:12/28/2022
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:68 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

NIVEADI RJI IMS OD MIET EMS SETLMIDD OD UCITGKUQOMF!!!

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Rundown (11/06-11/12) My First Exposure to Trans Characters Was Family Compo

• Post published:11/13/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: Some deep Natalie lore. Some pretty boring acquisition stuff. And modern Americana politics.

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Rundown (9/04-9/10) We Mustn’t Let Dragalia Be Lost!

• Post published:09/11/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: My Dragalia Lost archival efforts. Tencent gobbling up IPs for China. A showcase from a company I couldn’t care less about. And the long-lived queen.

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Rundown (7/03-7/09) I Think Nigma Box Might Be a Slur

• Post published:07/10/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:16 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Wherein I discuss an cursed discovery, the juicy delights of Anime Expo, a red flag remake, a Black Flag successor a decade in the making, polical assassinations, and… ice cream, for some bloody reason.

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Rundown (6/26-7/02) More Like Die-mocracy!

• Post published:07/03/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:19 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Wherein I discuss current political woes and the latest Nintendo advertising showcase!

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Rundown (5/22-5/28) Here’s to Ten More Years!

• Post published:05/29/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:12 mins read
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I recorded a video of me reading this, with EXTRA CONTENT! Also, it’s subtitled, because otherwise it would be MOSTLY unintelligible! It was bad and I invested over 3 hours into it in total! Mostly because of closed captioning.

Wherein I discuss how happy I am that Nigma Box has lasted for a full decade, the North American game industry’s first union, topical politics, and insights into my hometown.

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Rundown (2/27-3/05) Miserable Suckful CPR

• Post published:03/06/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:21 mins read
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Wherein I discuss how I listened to a mashup over 250 times on loop this past week, Pokémon Gen9, a physical only collection of classic games, and the big politics invading gaming!

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Rundown (1/24-1/30) Saturday Morning Robbery

• Post published:01/31/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
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Wherein I discuss another Tencent acquisition, more industry consolidation, playing the rich man’s game, a baffling mobile adaptation, and a tech company failing to enter the game industry! 

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Rundown (1/17-1/23) Strife Stifler!

• Post published:01/24/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
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Wherein I discuss the stifling of political strife, the highs and lows of a grand village, corroborated creative conflicts, the vanishing of a vision, and another cool cat giving into the corporate machine.

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Rundown (10/25-10/31) Doomsday Looming

• Post published:11/01/2020
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:10 mins read
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Wherein I discuss the looming disaster, layaway console purchases, a direct speck of joy, and the consolidation of another industry.

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Rundown (5/31-6/06) Editing Extravaganza

• Post published:06/07/2020
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:8 mins read
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Wherein I discuss a productive hobby week, a VTuber crossover, the smallest throwback, and the troubling state of affairs seen in the United States of America.

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Natalie Rambles About 2019

• Post published:12/25/2019
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:42 mins read
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Because 2019 is dead… or close enough to warrant a retrospective.

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