Don McClane has a new anime blog.
And so another perfectly respectable blogger falls in with a bunch of these “japanimation” types I keep hearing about. What a shame.
It always starts small: just a few gateway shows on the cartoon network, or maybe watching a seemingly innocent anime with a friend, “just to see what all the fuss is about”. Pretty soon they’re running one of these anime blog things, learning Japanese, calling themselves otaku, and hanging out with girls dressed up like Beldandy.
Parents: Talk to your kids about the dangers of Japanimation today.
The Dumbest Cutscene
This is it. This is the dumbest cutscene ever created for a AAA game. It's so bad it's simultaneously hilarious and painful. This is "The Room" of video game cutscenes.
Batman: Arkham Origins
A breakdown of how this game faltered when the franchise was given to a different studio.
Shamus Plays WOW
Ever wondered what's in all those quest boxes you've never bothered to read? Get ready: They're more insane than you might expect.
Deus Ex and The Treachery of Labels
Deus Ex Mankind Divided was a clumsy, tone-deaf allegory that thought it was clever, and it managed to annoy people of all political stripes.
MMO Population Problems
Computers keep getting more powerful. So why do the population caps for massively multiplayer games stay about the same?
…. and don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys…..
I don’t suffer from my 11-year-long addiction to anime. I enjoy it! :)
On the other hand, I’ve also been kinda-sorta broke most of those 11 years. *sigh*
And it’s too late for my parents to talk to me: I’m 44, so I can tell my mother where to go.
On the third hand, I think I can get her hooked on Haibane Renmei….. [evil cackle]
do you live in her basement?:)
Nope. I left home 25 years ago, except for a few years in the early’90s when I got caught in the post-Cold War recession of ’91.
Yeah, I know. I need a life. :)
On the other hand, it would be sooo nice to break Mom of her conviction that we should have done to Japan in 1945 what Rome did to Carthage. (Mom was in high school during the war, and can’t understand why I would like anything coming out of “that place”.) I think Haibane Renmei would be just the thing to convince her that the Japan of Generalissimo Tojo is long gone.