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Sometimes I Feel Like I Hurled Meself in Too Deep

I thought I should write something about last month’s free update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, since it did add a fair amount to the game. I also looked up how to do a few other things that I could … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Food, Gender, Japanese, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, birds, blaise pascal, brewster, brewster's roost, dogs, happy home academy, kapp'n, kappa, otters, pascal, pigeons, tortimer |

Such Shellfish Women

I’m not really not that knowledgeable about Pokémon, but I have played Pokémon Yellow and picked up a few other things here and there. These are mostly about the original Pokémon, though, and there have been so many others since … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chinese, Etymology, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Pokémon, Video Games | Tagged baku, carp, dragon gate, dragons, drowzee, fish, froslass, futakuchi-onna, gyarados, hermit crabs, kappa, lombre, magikarp, mawile, namazu, sazae-oni, shellder, slowbro, slowking, slowpoke, snails, top snail, turban snail, whiscash, yuki-onna |

Robot Mastery

Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide, by David and Nadia Oxford – The Mega Man series is pretty difficult (I could never get much of anywhere in any of them, although I watched my brother win the first seven), but … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Chinese, Focus on the Foes, Food, Japanese, Mega Man, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged aqua man, auto, buster rod g, charge man, chill man, chu pa-chieh, cut man, david oxford, dive man, dr. albert wily, dust man, flame man, frost man, guts man, gyro man, heat man, hyper storm h, journey to the west, kappa, kirigami, mega man and bass, mega man robot master field guide, mega man the wily wars, mega man v, mega water s, nadia oxford, pirate man, plant man, robot masters, robots, sha monk, stardroids, stone man, sun wukong, tango |

Mission: Imp Ossible

Growing up with various fantasy universes in books, video games, and other media, I frequently came across names of magical beings that weren’t always consistently defined. I’ve already discussed many of these, but as of yet I haven’t said a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Discworld, Eric Shanower, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Japanese, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, buddy holly, final fantasy vi, frank joslyn baum, garland, gau, goblins, ice imps, imp y celyn, imps, kappa, kimberly frodelius, little wizard stories of oz, milt youngren, ozma, ozma and the little wizard of oz, queen zixi of ix, ruby imp, soul music, sound imps, the enchanted island of yew, the ice king of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the three imps of oz, toto in oz, witches, wizard of oz |