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REVIEWS

• A Review of ¡Alarma! by Daniel Amos [09 Jul 2025]
• Sometimes I listen to a thing and just feel like writing about it. Case in point, this. I don't know Christian rock too well, unsurprisingly.
• The Former "Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" Has a Wonderful Music Video [03 Oct 2025]
• A short piece about the music video for FEX's "Subways of Your Mind" (f.k.a. "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet"), released 40 years after the song's original release and only a couple days prior to my little writeup.
• I didn't like that new Sleep Token song. [04 Apr 2025]
• A short review of Sleep Token's [then-]newest single "Caramel." I was not impressed and I explain why.
• I listened to Sleep Token's Even in Arcadia. [30 May 2025]
• I listened to Sleep Token's [then-]newest album Even in Arcadia. God I keep listening to this band despite being continuously disappointed by them. Why. What is wrong with me.
• UFO 50 "Kayfabe" Review
• An "in-universe"/"kayfabe" review of UFO 50. Because UFO 50 has a bunch of fictitious backstory to it, I decided to write a version of my review that was "in-universe." Arguably probably counts as fiction but the opinions are still real.

GUIDES

• Quest 64 - Fire/Wind Only Challenge [30 Jun 2025]

OTHER

• A Look Back at Magi-Nation Duel's Region Preview Cards [01 May 2026]
  • Looking at and ranking some cards from an old, long-dead (but possibly returning?) trading card game I remember from the early 2000s.
• Another Magic: The Gathering Artist Does a Plagiarism [04 May 2026]
  • On that time Dan Frazier stole another artist's work for a Magic: The Gathering card.
• Blue Öyster Cult's Magnum Opus and Ironic Fascist Imagery [29 Apr 2025]
• Looking at Blue Öyster Cult's formation as a concept band and how they flew too close to the sun with 1974's Secret Treaties, and what that says about your jokes that rely on racism and other far-right beliefs.
• Fuck Streaming, I *Buy* My Records (2025 Edition) [10 Dec 2025]
  • A treatise against streaming music in favor of purchasing records while being sure to weigh that it is not so simple for everyone, or a needless exercise in conspicuous consumption? You decide!
• How Well Does WotC's New Nostalgia Secret Lair Imitate the Old Days? [16 May 2026]
  • An analysis of an emulation of a false past.
• Is Magic: The Gathering Just Yu-Gi-Oh! Now? [13 Mar 2026]
  • An exploration of how two card games are having... problems. And how those problems are weirdly similar! Gee, I wonder if capitalism sucks!
• Jethro Tull Previewed Their New Under Wraps Remaster; I'm Pretty Excited! [03 Apr 2026]
  • Taking a look at a new remix of a song from a historically very not beloved song, receiving a new release in mid-May 2026.
• Nonland Mana Generation Used to Be Really Weird [24 May 2026]
  • A look at how a very important mechanic tended to work in Magic: The Gathering throughout its history, including some weird stuff that exists even nowadays.
• One Borderline-Dismal Change to Magic's Spider-Man Cards [09 Sep 2025]
  • Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man tie-in set uses the card border usually used for in-lore cards, and I think that's bad and rant about it here.
• Maybe we shouldn't give out our personal information so freely [17 Aug 2025]
  • A rant about exactly what it sounds like it's about.
• People are Mad About Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen on Switch, Because Of Course They Are [20 Feb 2026]
  • I had a look at the pricing of the upcoming ports of some classic Pokemon games to Nintendo Switch; my feelings are a bit more complicated on the matter than I thought!
• Quest 64's Very Hard Challenge Run [13 Jun 2025]
• A short examination of my time with the very hard (mostly irritating; completing an RPG is usually an inevitability due to the ability to grind) Fire/Wind Magic Only challenge in Quest 64.
• Ranking the "World Enchantments" (Magic: The Gathering) [07 Oct 2025]
  • A ranking of the 26 members of a card type retired very early in Magic's lifespan.
• Super ZSNES Exists, For Some Reason! [27 Apr 2026]
  • A quick look at Super ZSNES, a revival of a 25-plus-year-out-of-date SNES emulator.
• This is the hardest challenge I've ever beaten in a video game. [23 Apr 2025]
• A rant, gripe, something like that about Balatro's painfully hard "Jokerless" challenge.
• Was This Magi-Nation Duel Deck Killed by the Turn Structure? [29 Apr 2026]
  • I started brewing for a dead card game suddenly. I don't think this idea would work, and at least part of it should be blamed on the game's turn structure. Maybe.
• Winter Orb: Ode to a Cardboard War Crime [15 Mar 2025]
• An expanded version of a rant I wrote to a friend about the Magic: The Gathering card that makes me the saltiest of them all.

FICTION

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