Kimchi fried rice, for lunch.

Erewhon is not a grocery store: defector.com/erewhon-is-n...

My Anime Factoral Spreadsheet (aka my masterpiece) has been update for 2025! If you're looking for something new to watch or recommend to a friend, this is a good place to start! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Who needs friends, with torturers like these?

Chiitan

Happy Friday! Red mage update...sort of. Picking up from last time, I talk about being trans.

Just finished season 1 and it's so so good. Blessed to have season 2 so soon.

Lmao yeah sure.

New Haitian restaurant in town Le Gourmet is super legit. Everything was delicious and portions were beyond generous. Instant favorite.

My local grocery store started stocking dungeness crab, which to me always seems quite intimidating to eat. Steamed and cracked it open and it's actually not too hard to shell. It has more meat in the body with a very briny savory juice. The meat is firmer than snow crab which I really enjoyed.

Adapting a popular title *and* a videogame at that would often shackle creative teams, which is why it fucking rules that Sekiro decided to throw common sense out the window & double down on something this radical

I’m rewatching Asobi Asobase and this stupid show is so fucking funny. It feels weirdly real in relation to how chaotic girls are in middle school.

Finished RE9. The story is such nonsense even by RE standard lol. Just absolute gibberish from start to finish.

RE9's child characters sounding unmistakably like 28yo VOs is very pre-aughts anime and I can't help but think is intentional.

At the risk of doxxing myself ,this plaza in town is hands down the best lunch spot. According to me, the Lord of Lunch.

My most American take is if a non-US actor plays an American character in a show, they should keep up the accent in behind-the-scene stuff too.

Playing RE9 and having limited inventory slots really just means you're either leaving pick ups behind or are constantly running back to the storage box. Neither is fun and I don't know why games still do this.

Give it to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4-6...

Luncher's Digest, February 2026.

It doesn’t have to make sense to you. It just has to make sense to me.

If Criterion are releasing Netflix films then they can hurry up and give Kevin Ko’s INCANTATION a physical media release like I’ve been asking for literally thousands of years

Not sure if a scoped Winchester is part of a self defence repertoire.

If you are a new figure skating enjoyer after watching the winter Olympics, you should check out Medalist.

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

Very loaded question but also not a great response. Accountability is not the same as "Trump tactics". Laws are actively being broken and there needs to be consequences, and Beshear should be loud on this message. "Unifying/healing" means moving on.

Great news for fans of walking to the end of a hallway and turning around.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

I never noticed this either.

Late to the party but just finished INDIKA and it's quite special.

Respectfully, Doctor, I don’t think that’s a prank.

We need to sit down every gen z prude who said sex scenes never add to the story and have them watch Heated Rivalry.

Cold day, lazy boys.

Carnitas Pork shoulder slow-cooked in cumin, oregano, peppers, garlic, and orange juice. Chopped and shredded, spread and pan fried until one side is crispy and slightly charred. Cooking liquid added and reduced. Served on corn tortillas, micro greens, onions, and a garlic ghost pepper sauce.

One of the main ideas behind the Ikoku Nikki anime so far has been to use the structure of the house that the two leads share to underline how "living together" has been a technicality. They're still two separate lifestyles and there is tangible, solid separation between the two

Slightly diminish a game. Devil Might Cry

Revue Starlight and its sequel film tell such a complimentary and complete story, I wonder what the just announced new production will be about. That said, I'll never turn down more RS. The film is one of my all time favorites.

The Earthbound Mole: The animation style is unique, the characters are bizarre, and there’s something weirdly grounded about the human element of the supernatural incidents. Plus the 37 year old eccentric cat-loving wife who is aggressively affectionate with her deadpan husband, is basically me.

To Be Hero X: It’s rare to see a show w/ so many characters & overlapping plots nail the landing so fantastically, and it’s just the start of a bigger story! Ep 20 was maybe the most hype I’ve ever felt watching tv. The shifts in animation style are dynamically breathtaking. I could go on forever...

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

Ok maybe auto-inserted ads in podcasts are good actually.

Hattey’s Most Enjoyed Anime of 2025! Here are my reviews and recommendations:

You should watch Apocalypse Hotel.

2025 was a phenomenal year for anime, with absolute gems in just about every genre. In no particular order as usual, here are my favorite 10 shows from this year.

Been playing the Silent Hill 2 remake. Immediately this feels much better to play than SHf. Combat is simple and frantic but methodical, whereas f is twitchy and burdened with too many mechanics. Resource management is much more balanced as well.

Watched several videos of other countries' NYE celebrations tonight. The fact that the US is the only one that's absolutely plastered with ads, literally couldn't go a minute without a visual or verbal mention, it is also the saddest soggy cardboard of a show. What are we even doing here?

If you saw the new Sword and Fairy remake and want to learn more about Chinese & Taiwanese RPGs, I wrote an overview of their history & stand-out games back in 2021: felipepepe.medium.com/before-gensh... And the thread below has recommendations of games available in English you can start with :)

NYE dinner, beef roast rigatoni.

That's a wrap on Silent Hill f. Great sound design and monster design, Ebisugaoka is hauntingly beautiful, fantastic VO (JP). Really don't like that the first playthrough is guaranteed bad ending and the true ending requires minimum 3 playthroughs.

On December 26, China opened two new HSR lines: Xi'an to Yan'an (299km) and Hangzhou to Quzhou (131km). Meanwhile, the United States bombed Nigeria and continued its aggression against Venezuela and Latin America. China builds, the US bombs.