Hoyo trying to turn Genshin into the Fortnite of gacha games with its upcoming Miliastra Wonderland update, lol. I do like games where you can make games within those games using their built-in editors but I’m really not sure how they’re gonna make it work without a robust creator monetization plan.

Just had an idea for Steel Walker-enchanted boots that halves my jump height out of water and allow for fast sinking in water, even in upwards bubble columns. If I land on cobble, it turns to gravel; if I land on gravel, it turns to sand. On tilled soil, it turns back to dirt upon walking.

If they do bring spears to the base Minecraft game, hopefully they can be enchanted with Piercing as that enchantment hasn’t seen much love since its introduction, lol. I want them to revisit the other combat update changes but maybe the “leaked” underwater dungeons/trials will be much more fun!

KPop Demon Hunters expertly uses the medium of animation to express the absurdity of its setting and world building. While the film’s very trope-y and the main leads look super generic, it’s a fun musical that sends home the message: you shouldn’t have to hide who you are. Recommend.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World once again shows the talents of the level designers in both its 3D platforming and its art. Despite it being a shorter expansion, the new content is fun and replayable! Plus, on Switch 2, it’s 60 fps, which actually helps a lot lol. Recommend.

Imagine if there were Creeper variants for every biome-type. Mojang doesn’t have to change the Creeper texture when they could just add more! (and maybe change their explosions too) I would be a bit concerned about all the people that would now make Creeper zoos and Charged Creeper exhibitions tho…

Apparently, there seems to be some hints towards an ocean update? Ocean trials? Shellfish? Underwater abandoned villages? Deep sea monsters? A way to craft tridents(lol)? There’s actually so much more they could add to the deep seas—Mojang might actually be cooking… Hyped for Minecraft Live!

The Naked Gun is an excellent satirical parody of the old trope of hardboiled investigators whilst also mixing in some meta jokes as well. The absurd reality combined with constant dad jokes and wildly inappropriate scenarios makes it a great watch for anyone who has some sense of humor. Recommend.

Goodbye Black Clover Mobile, it was nice knowing you—actually no, this was such a time sink. I can’t get back those hours I wasted in this game… Unfortunately, the art and animations will never be used for something better than a gacha game made by Garena. Black Clover deserved better.

The Bad Guys 2 extends the world of the first film without losing what made the original so good. The animation, framing, voice acting, and music all excel to tell a story about the trials of returning to a society you want to rejoin. Highly recommend after watching the first.

Freakier Friday throws you back to the 2000’s with its campy yet meta humor. Despite the daughters’ cringy shenanigans to split the soon-to-be married couple, it still manages to make a story about being patient with family and understanding each other. If you like the original, I’d recommend it.

I think Mojang is holding off pursuing the redstone experiments for these key issues they’d like to address properly: an alternative to quasi-connectivity and 0-tick mechanics, moveable tile entities, and contraptions breaking upon chunk unloading. 0-tick and moveable tile entities may be related.

If you HAVE to be a “winner” everywhere, maybe you were never a winner anywhere. Chasing and faking perfection will always give you disappointment and doubt. Everything you do will be unsatisfying and nothing you accomplish will feel earned. Don’t mistake “good enough” for “not enough.”

*taps the board* WHERE ARE THE COPPER MINECART COMPONENTS, MOJANG?!

What if Mojang named the next game drop, “Copper? Copper.” lol

The current HSR story in Amphoreus feels like anime Age of Ultron, Infinity War/Endgame with some Matrix, lol. Not saying that’s bad but that’s the vibe I’m getting from the latest trailer. The climax will be them destroying the Emperor’s Scepter and freeing the planet from digitization, I bet.

When Mojang revisit the previous Combat Update snapshots, I hope they overhaul potions and give new potion effects as well. For example, embiggening, smallification, transmorphing, etc. The trial chambers drop gave so many cool and unique effects so the door is wide open~ 👀 So many possibilities!

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a good movie about what makes a family and what we do for them. Trying not to spoil too much—the most unrealistic thing in the story was the how the world finally reacted against the threat of Galactus, lol. Anyway, still recommend as it’s still good hero fun!

Superman is an excellent film about what it means to have humanity. James Gunn shows us, once again, that he knows what he’s doing. It doesn’t shy away from using meta commentary through world building that symbolizes current real world issues to send a clear and powerful message. Highly recommend.

Bro, some people just have no media literacy, no basic understanding of the art put in front of them. The regularly defunded U.S. education system is so cooked. Superman was definitely born to his adoptive parents on native American soil, y’all—not a refugee from some alien planet called Krypton. 🤦‍♂️

Mojang might also renovate mineshafts and the underground features like mob spawners in the next game drop, given their announcement video… Copper chains perhaps (since they added copper nuggets)? New copper-based redstone component like copper rails? Involve the minecart experiments? Exciting!

Bruh, people are treating the 200 pulls bonus event in HSR 3.4 like the greediest thing ever. Unless you want to argue all BOGOs are greedy, you cannot genuinely be serious about this. If you could only build towards this goal using premium currency, then it would just be a regular spending event.

The Phoenician Scheme is the epitome of mise-en-scene--telling the absurdly comedic tale of an infamous yet lucky businessman who tries to get his influential "friends" to fund his extravagant project while also trying to convince his pious heir(ess) into inherit his business empire. Recommend.

Brokeback Mountain is basically doomed yaoi with NTR (best way I can describe it tbh lol). The nature shots are pretty solid but the accents were sometimes hard to decipher. It's actually got a good story with actors I recognize. Good acting and sets, not so great aging makeup. Recommend.

The Life of Chuck is a movie all about Chuck's life (haha) narrated in a mysterious and disjointed way, letting the audience develop the meaning of the first act as his story is told. The question posed by the film adaptation is "if you knew when you were going to die, what would you do?" Recommend.

Firefly’s new skin would’ve been good if S.A.M. had the school uniform as well—just saying. Otherwise, it’s very mid for a ~$30 skin. Hope Hoyo learns from the community reaction in regard to future HSR skins because this ain’t it, chief.

EOS confirmed. Gonna just use all my 100k+ black crystals on the standard banner now lol. RIP. It had a lot of potential but the devs really squandered it by pandering to whales. Good animations and models gone to waste. Unfortunately, no new banners in a couple months was its death knell.

I get why Game Key cards exist; some people just want the box and it’s cheaper. However, people are less likely to buy it because the Switch 2 storage will be filled up in no time. Additionally, the price of microSD Express cards to expand the base storage capacity competes with game pricing.

Mario Kart World is actually difficult compared to MK8DX. I need to grind this game out fr.

The Switch 2’s biggest selling point for me is the upgraded Switch 1 games. I have so many Switch 1 games that I would like to finish but haven’t gotten around to it due to not wanting to have to spend time waiting for the game to run well enough. Hopefully the microSD prices go down tho.

So umm—use my copy-and-pasted link below if ya wanna help me in ZZZ, lol. My invitation code: GUZH7RJX2K hoyo.link/DVKHRrVer?s_...

First Hoyo collab I could go to~ Almost three hours in line and I even arrived there 10 minutes earlier… The cream puffs at Beard Papa’s was good, but I’m not sure if they were worth ~$5 each (I was not gonna pay $70 for both stands lol) Anyway, I’m coming back from my California trip so cya soon!

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning and Mission: Impossible- The Final Reckoning are fun action movies and I believe the second part pays off the setup in the first part. Sound design and presentation were good. The only things that ruin the immersion is the extrapolation of tech capabilities.

I did not care to watch Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards because I already knew the outcome based on the overwhelming popularity of the series and since the community can vote. My ranking would be: Look Back, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Delicious in Dungeon, Dan Da Dan, and The Apothecary Diaries.

This is just a rant on all the dense gamers out there that constantly rag on games and game devs without properly interacting with the game, whining when they cannot complete some objective. If other people can do it, you can do it too—if you take the time to learn and practice. Be reasonable.

Some people just feel entitled to compensation after time and/or money is used in a game. No, that’s not right—it is how you use that time and/or spend that money. If you waste your time doing random stuff or dump your money in without a clear purpose, you actively choose inefficient ways forward.

Just saw a reddit post about this but… snow bricks! It makes so much sense imo. Mojang needs to brick the game fr

ZZZ has the best anniversary hands down. Still one of the most fun, artistic gacha games out there, and still haven’t spent a dime lol. I keep repeating that if you want me to pay, have a permanent pack that is not re-purchasable—I ain’t paying for no gaming subscription. I’d pay AAA price at most.

Sinners is an excellent film about the quickness of happiness, life, and love. The storytelling flows well—things happen and develop so quickly yet so naturally. Great acting, music, and long shots. The horror and comedic elements were well-placed. Overall, a must watch. Highly recommend.

Thunderbolts* is a good Marvel movie (finally…) The message about tackling mental health together and fighting depression, loneliness, and low self-esteem really resonated with my past. I really hope Marvel turns things around here (and Disney does right with the whole Renner situation). Recommend.

Predatory business practices exist because corporations believe they can get away with it. However, they would not try these practices if most people didn’t fall for them. Basically—these anti-consumer practices continue because of greedy companies and ignorant or indifferent people.

If Intel does not capitalize on NVIDIA’s disregard for the budget segment of the GPU market, they will never have a chance to dominate the section or future expansions into the high-end market. (AMD has also done poorly to market itself as the alternative with their GPU pricing.)

So many men in the U.S. are aspiring deadbeat fathers, I swear. Have some goddamn standards y’all, please.

And there we go—all the anime I watched this semester has been reviewed. Now I have to watch the whole Fate series to understand the hype around Saber and Archer in Honkai: Star Rail. 😞

“I May Be a Guild Receptionist, But I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time” is a short but entertaining romp about an overworked staffer gaining the power that rivals the gods. However, she uses that power to make sure that she finishes her work on time. A lot of things about this show is mid so…

“From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!” is a fun series about a father who’s consciousness has been inserted in the game world his daughter was playing before the accident. However, he was placed in the role of the villaines! Recommend if you like villainess-turn-good stories.

The 2nd season of “As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World” is still fun! Although there’s been no conclusion to the ongoing war, you can’t help but root for the developing Ars and his growing crew of skilled friends. Recommend to isekai fans.

Feel like Rockstar delayed the game just to make sure GTA 6 launches with a Switch 2 version. If Cyberpunk can run on Switch 2, surely GTA 6 can as well, lol (obviously not at the fidelity they’ve shown). I think they’d lose a lot of the market if they don’t have a PC handheld-scaling version.

I really get the feeling Mojang will just make saddles and nametags craftable,while horse armor is still rare (unless they change them to take durability and are enchantable). Like bundles, these items offer many uses early game and are lesser used because of their rarity.

If you’ve learned from history, what’s happening in the U.S. right now is fascism. We now know how it starts and ramps up — the amplification and tolerance of hate and the tribalism of politics. Conservatives are attacking the courts and disregarding the Constitution for the dear leader, Trump.