That’s just Animal Crossing games. I haven’t really dabbled too much in the rest of the life sim world as of yet. Stardew is coming.

EmperorNortinI made me smile in the best way, the emotional equivalent of what makes blood orange such a delicious flavor. It’s true, it’s a little bitter, and it’s rich in the right way.

The general critical response on Ogilala seems to be a mix of, “Nice change of pace after several rock albums”, though some, like O’Neal here, don’t much care for it, which isn’t to say he damns the album, though faint praise could’ve been the theme of the review.

It is definitely charming and cute and almost disarmingly naive at times, but I’ve run into two characters who dropped some pretty sobering commentary. These are in no way story spoilers, just some NPC dialog, but here’s what they said, so NON-STORY SPOILERS FOR YONO AHEAD:

That’s actually kind of funny now that you mention it. I haven’t experienced any problems with my New 3DS (non-XL) at all. I think size is part of it for sure, but I also think it’s the way I’m supposed to hold the system up while also gripping it, and how there isn’t any palm to it, if that makes sense. I just looked…

The success of the Switch, I think, has made a very good argument about the myriad ways in which Nintendo failed with the WiiU, especially since in many ways the Switch feels like the vision of the WiiU fulfilled, making the former look like the somewhat clunky prototype it wound up being.

Sorry, FarScape. You’re a good show, a crazy, funny, deeply weird show, but your theme is both too alien and too cheesy, full of “sci-fi sounds” from that keyboard you got for Christmas one year but never really played. By the time its ending, the crescendo is grating, overly loud, the kind of thing I’m surprised…

As a small addendum, if you can get yourself to Symphony of the Goddesses, which also just added shows in Philly and Sydney this very week, I highly recommend it. Pure unadulterated joy from start to finish with a positive and enthusiastic crowd of fellow fans.

Odyssey looks so very, very good. I’m glad Nintendo’s answer to the abject failure of the WiiU was to launch a system with a brand new Zelda game and then follow it up not eight months later with the first fully 3D Super Mario game in more than seven years (and I say that as a huge fan of SM3DW).

Carth would be fine if he wasn’t so suspicious of me all the time while also whining about his Tragic Backstory. Shut up, Carth.

My primary concern this weekend will be Yono and the Celestial Elephants, an isometric Zelda-adjacent adventure with an adorable art style and some surprisingly pointed sociopolitical commentary that shows up out of almost nowhere.

I still remember hearing “Paris is Burning” and thinking, “This one’s special. She’s worth following.”

Billy Corgan’s new album under his full name moniker, William Patrick Corgan, “Ogilala.” Corgan’s been Rubinized, with spare arrangements led by guitar and/or piano, and continues his career pivot after he seemed to sate his lust for grandeur with Oceania/Teargarden, the project that never finished/isn’t over/he’s…

And you can watch Netflix while you wait!

Resource management. Kingdom building. Uh oh. better check that out.

Maybe I’m all wrong here, but ARMS felt like a thinking man’s fighter to me, a strategic one. It wasn’t about knowing the right combos or being able to enter moves in as fast as possible. It’s about anticipation, counterattacks, and defense. Much like the Splat Roller in Splatoon, it feels like a wilier counterpart to…

“Doesn’t give a waddle’s dee.”

I imagine I will get a bit more done in Persona Q, and I was more than a little relieved when the game opened up more after the completion of the first dungeon. It’s still not quite as expansive as a Persona game, of course, but it feels much more robust than a main line Etrian Odyssey game (though I’ve yet to try…

Twisted Mansion IS pretty good, though. Now to plan Animal Crossing All Seasons for the 18th.

I was flipping stations and ran across this and was filled with an unspeakable rage. I know I’m too old for the station, but it’s just the most vapid, insipid, stupid... uh, tepid garbage TV with no point except to be A Thing. MTV continually finds new floors to fall through as if they are the ones trying to join the…