The Back Catalogue

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A sporadically updated pop culture blog where I write about everything new, old, and weird in pop culture (Movies, TV Shows, Anime, Books) and occasionally talk about my own writing. https://beacons.ai/thebackcatalogue

For shits and giggles I mapped my IR remote's ok button to the action button of ESO so I can fish on my laptop while cleaning out my email inbox on my desktop at the same time. I still have only managed 1 perfect roe in the two hours I've been doing this, the rates just be depressing some times.

I can't take Dragon's Crown seriously all the women in this game were designed by a coomer. Seriously out of the three playable female characters only one doesn't have their boobs. And all the men are drawn as hyper swole. Were Vannilaware games always this bad or is just this one unique?

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Pokémon Wind and Waves starters aren't ugly... but they don't feel radically compelling like I want to jump into the game just for them either. Also Pokémon will have to win me back hard on more than just starters to get me playing mainline games again.

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Third game of the year finished and.. Well the gameplay is good I love a good puzzle builder and it really makes you think about where your putting down buildings and managing resources. But, the story the writing is very generic and two-dimensional. Basically a tech-bro utopia fantasy.

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Second game of the year finished. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. This is my favourite Zelda game, every couple of years I come back to it. And while the 3DS remake has its own quirks I really think its become the definitive version of this game for me.

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I dislike how some booktokers/gramers group YA & MG graphic novels into the same list. a lot of these comics don't have crossover in demographics. Because there audiences are at completely different stages of development. It also gives the vibes that comics are inherently childish.

Finished my first game of the new year Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. A classic & one of three retro titles I'm playing right now. I remember having this as a kid but never getting passed the first section. Loved it now I can fully appreciate it as an adult.

Cover image to the PlayStation one game odd world Abe's oddysee

I really want to play Hytale but I'm so broke atm. This game looks so fun. How did Riot fail so hard at developing it, it would have been an instant hit if they just stopped with the feature creep and focused on the core gameplay.

Discovered today that I don't like Visual Novels that much. Which sucks cause the next 3-5 games I wanted to knock out of my back catalogue were all visual novel style games. It's a passivity of the gameplay for me I want to play something more active.

My 2026 wish for game developers is for them to actually open up their games on a small screen. If you can't see the ui then no you don't actually offer 480p support. Signed someone who'd actually like to use steam in home streaming more often.

This is why being an Australian book and comic fan sucks sometimes. Like why is the shipping 3x the price of the actual books - which are on sale. 😭 I live regional and its also more expensive in shipping versus metro. You may as well not offer international shipping at this point of unaffordability

A screen capture of the checkout for three comic books that are on a half price special. the total for the books comes to $40.50 AUD with shipping at $125.00 AUD, totalling $182.05. Shipping is 3x the price of the books alone.

Dear booksellers in the know please go to your colleagues and tell them what the wicked book actually contains. Cause I think I just witnessed a bookseller sell wicked to an unsuspecting grandmother. 😭 This is a thousandth reminder wicked the book and wicked the musical are not the same.

One thing I've found helpful about my mini vacay is that it has done wonders for my concentration. Is it perfect no, I'm ND it will never be perfect. But I feel less stressed just not being in a hostile work environment and not surrounded by noise and distractions at home. Kind wish it was longer.

My dream house will have a library/reading room with an attached basement book archive/library for all the books and series I don't want on display right now. I would also have to win the lotto to ever have a chance of building such a house, but a girl can have dreams, right?

Started watching Delicious in Dungeon and it's making me so hungry!! I also like how each new recipe incorporates ingredients from the previous one, and they are constantly reusing and replenishing their supplies. Sometimes I find that food manga doesn't focus on this aspect of cooking.