I've known about, and even wanted to play Uncharted Waters ever since I was a kid, but given how many games there are, I had never gotten to it. In fact, I may have never gotten to it. Often games like this just fall slowly down the mental list, until they become forgotten.

It it can feel weird and arbitrary what old game I end up going back to. I don't go back through a queue of games, based on which I think would be the best, or most important to play. It almost ends up happening thro...

I've been putting a lot of my wrestling feelings on my side blog these days, but I cannot justify it here. I'm not going to explain everything I should. I'm not going to give all the context this all needs. I just need to get this out.

On April 27, at All Star Grand Queendom 2025, my favorite wrestle wrestler in the world, Tam Nakano, lost her career-vs-career against Saya Kamitani(🪨), in what was the conclusion of an emotional and dramatic trilogy of matches(I cannot write well eno...

For reasons I don't even entirely remember (just generally musing about old RTSs), I felt compelled to load up Warcraft 2 and just... click around. Then I thought "No, I should play Warcraft 1". In my mind, Warcraft 1 is exactly like Warcraft 2, just without all the ships and boats, but my mind likes to lie to me.

Instead it is some weird Game Gear ass looking game with even less options, road requirements for buildings, and... surprisingly a lot of neutral units(Oh Ogres?? I g...

I try not to argue exact language much. I try to keep my approach to language as a descriptivist. Language evolves in terrible and funny ways. Metroidvania is an awful term, but it's a term with history I will use long before I use the term Search Action(a genre name that has the same appeal as calling hotdogs Intestined Scraps). Sure, some phrases like Backtracking are too misguided for me to tolerate, but Quality-of-Life isn't like that. So called QoL changes can mean a lot of of...

There was a narrow window for me and jRPGs(I know there is some argument over this term being used to other Japanese RPGs, but as a wRPG hater I only mean this as a term of endearment). From barely being able to parse Final Fantasy 1 by the end of the NES's life, to burning out on jRPGs on Xenogears. I tried to play Final Fantasy IX after that, but by that point I was burnt out and broken.

By the time, Final Fantasy 5 was available as a part of the PSX Final Fantasy Anthology(Trul...