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This Isn’t My First Odio

I’ve finished Live a Live with two different endings. There are a few others, but I think I’m done with it for the time being. There are SPOILERS for the game in what follows. I wrote about the first four … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Final Fantasy, History, Middle Ages, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Video Games | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, akira tadokoro, alien, aliens, artificial intelligence, behemoth, captain square, cogito ergo sum, corporal darthe, cube, doc tobei, hasshe, hor bishop, kenichi lawless matsu, kingdom of lucerne, kirk wells, lei kugo, live a live, martial arts, masaru takahara, o. dio, oboromaru, od-10, odeo, odie o'bright, odio, oersted, pogo, princess alathea, robots, steel titan, streibough, sundown kid, taroimo, turtles, uranus, yoshiyuki kato |

Skipping Through Time

Live A Live – This game was originally released by Square in 1994, and was directed by Takashi Tokita, who was the lead designer on Final Fantasy IV and later directed Chrono Trigger. Like the latter game, this is an RPG … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, China, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, History, Humor, Japan, Language, Magic, Monsters, Music, Names, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged battle of the little bighorn, dinosaurs, earthen heart shifu, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, gori, gorillas, kung fu, live a live, mad dog, martial arts, ninjas, o. dio, obomaru, ode iou, ou di wan lee, shadow, sundown kid, takashi tokita, tyrannosaurus rex |

The No Bullet Theory

The Conjuring – A haunted house movie featuring a fictionalized portrayal of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (by which I mean they were real people, not necessarily that the paranormal is real). There wasn’t that much about it … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Magic, Television, The Simpsons, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged big trouble in little china, dave foley, david anthony higgins, ed and lorraine warren, jay kogen, jennifer tilly, John Carpenter, kevin mcdonald, kids in the hall, kim cattrall, kurt russell, lo pan, martial arts, the conjuring, the wrong guy |

It’s Koopa Clobbering Time

Here are some more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews, and for once I haven’t heard the reviews on the Super Show Show podcast at the Hard Times, because they haven’t gotten to most of these yet, “Mario of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged a basement divided, adee don't, albatosses, apes, beetles, big bad wolf, chippie chipmunks, fred travalena, gramma toadstool, honey i shrunk the kids, jungle land, karate, karate koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopa-kola, lions, little red riding hood, little red riding princess, luigi mario, mario mario, mario of the apes, martial arts, melanie chartoff, misaki, mouser, mr. gibbel, mr. miyagi, mushroom kingdom, ninjis, no way to treat a queenie, plumb fu, princess i shrunk the mario brothers, princess peach toadstool, queen elizabeth ii, ratigator, sayanora, tarzan, tawny tyler, the karate kid, toad, triclyde, trouters, waldo the wizard, wolves |

Turtle Whirl

I was looking for information on the Black Tortoise of Winter who played a significant role in Grace Lin’s When the Sea Turned to Silver, and it turns out that he’s pretty closely tied to a god called Xuanwu, a … Continue reading →

Posted in China, Chinese, History, Mythology, Religion, Taoism | Tagged black tortoise of winter, constellations, demons, eight immortals, grace lin, guanyin, immortality, journey to the west, lu dongbin, manchu dynasty, martial arts, ming dynasty, mongols, snakes, song dynasty, when the sea turned to silver, wudang mountains, xuanwu, yongle emperor, yuan dynasty, zhenwu |