Backlog Blitz: SNES, Week Twelve, "Indiana Was the Pink Fluffball's Name..."

I never have been good at titles for these blogs... Are there classes on writing good titles? Is that a thing? It should be a thing. I would attend. Anyway. It has...it has been a long week. I say that every week. But this week... I'm barely awake right now and it's post-noon. I've been up for five hours. The only thing that's keeping me awake is the promise of the delicious-smelling Jamaican chicken soup on the stove... Anyway. Old games. Let's talk about them. 

Untimely Revue: "Crawl Out Through the Fallout (4)"

The following is an updated version of a collaborative review I did with some other former members of the GameInformer blogging community as a sort of anniversary blog. I have updated it with my thoughts on the late game, which remain pretty much the same as my thoughts about the early game, but still. Questions are not mine. Answers are. 

OverAnalyzed: "Historic on the Fury Road: A Timeline of Mad Max"

Let’s talk about Max Rockatansky. More specifically, the timeline of his life. This has not been researched in any sort of scholarly manner, being based solely on watching Fury Road and The Road Warrior an unhealthy number of times, as well as an ongoing playthrough of Mad Max (the game). Spoilers will abound, so ye be warned.

Wandery Wednesday: "Words, Words, Words..."

As a kid, I read an average of five books a day. In tech school, I read a book every night or two. In college, not counting assigned reading, I read a book every week or so. Up until recently, I wasn't reading books at all. What happened to me? Why did I slow down? 

Well... The books I read got longer, and the time I had to read them in got shorter. That's one major reason. Not only that, but I began reading books--for class, mostly, at first--which required me to think. You can't just dash through As I Lay Dying in a couple hours, as much as I wanted to at the time. (Side note: "A Rose For Emily" is the only piece of writing by Faulkner worth reading). The text expects that you think about what it contains, and professors expect that as well. So that slowed me down as well. Having to think will do that to you. I think... 

Poem: "Redundant"

Your room smells of champagne and sweat,

Mine of loneliness and beer.

In all my life, my one regret

Is that I'm not needed here. 

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Shockingly, this poem is not autobiographical. My apartment smells like loneliness and rum, thank you very much.

Music Roundup Monday: "Genre Whiplash In B Minor"

Oh hey. It's been a while since I've done one of these. Like two weeks? Or more? I can't count good. I can't word good either. Let's listen to music. 

Arcade Fire - "Crown of Love"

Ulver - "Utreise"

Atlantean Kodex - "Enthroned in Clouds and Fire (The Great Cleansing"

Chase Holfelder and Kurt Schneider - "All I Want For Christmas"

Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"

Cat Power - "Fate of the Human Carbine"

Andrew Bird - "Depression Pasillo"

Die Antwoord - "Wie Maak die Jol Vol"

Andrew Lloyd Weber - "Learn to Be Lonely"

Sikth - "Days Are Dreamed"

Rotor - "Oktogan"

Cool Stuff Sunday: "Star Wars and Some Other Junk I Guess"

Oh hey. It's the first Sunday of 2016, and I reckon I've got some cool stuff to shove in your gawping faces, you wonderful readers. (All seven [7] of you)! I'm trying to finally get my writing back on a schedule, so hopefully more work will be up here soon. Of course, I still reserve the right to post stuff as I feel fit, because we don't need no steenkin' schedules. Let's begin, shall we?

Fallout 4 tries very hard to railroad you into killing people, to the point that it pretty much breaks the game if you attempt a no-kill approach. Well, this guy beat the main quest without personally killing anyone. Pretty impressive, all things considered. 

Pokemon Go is looking to be pretty freaking awesome. Here's hoping!

Military commanders in WWI tried pretty hard to prevent a second Christmas Truce. New evidence suggests they failed. Good. War is hell, no need to strip every last vestige of humanity out of it. 

There's a new Berserk anime planned for this year. YESSSSSSSSS. Hopefully it's Golden Arc quality. 

Wondering how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc? Here's an interesting interpretation, in Lego. 

Apparently professional lightsaber designers are a thing now. A pretty good sign that geeks now rule the earth, or at the very least have too much money. 

In case you missed it, Steam had some serious security issues over Christmas. Sometimes I worry about Gaben's empire... 

The India-Pakistan border closing ceremony is impressive and utterly ridiculous. 

An interesting theory about Han Solo as an RPG character, or, failing forward. 

You know TR-8R? The "Traitor!" stormtrooper from The Force Awakens? He has a canon backstory. Ah, fandom. 

A really interesting piece about Irish hunger strikers. 

Soon, a Japanese-styled set of Star Wars figures will be appearing. Hmmmmmmm... Hmmm...