for the rest of the year (ideally) Bog Frog fans are gonna be getting a lot of episodes. very busy time of year but its gonna be a lot of fun!

New Bog Frog! We have a lovely conversation about some of the most exciting chapters in Speaker, but before that we had to talk about Silksong, Enemies of the Pod, and Soil sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...

New video is out! Roger Ebert's Relationship to Anime: youtu.be/oMdddKTJnQ8

Title: Illhaven Winter & The Bastion of Skull Author(s): Timothy R. Jervis (Kew) Date: 1997-10-28 https://www.quaddicted.com/db/v1/maps/cb5b1f57bbf7be4de8fe7830df90953b3d2bbd945454fad3f7a898c7333bb47c #outdoor #snow #village #wizard #map #quake

i've been seeing more posts from people considering switching to linux, so let me just say it's very easy to try out most distros let you test them directly from a flash drive without installing a thing. you can also try them from your web browser distrosea.com you can just DO it. YOU can do it.

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan. From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history. Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?... This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

now i wouldn't necessarily say that "video games should be frictionless and convenient and qol is an objective ideal that all developers should strive towards in all things" and "uncomfortable queer art shouldn't exist" are rhetorically related ideas but also i wouldn't say that they aren't

podcasts. they’re gonna be big!

well plans for where im gonna live in just over a week have fallen through. Again. If anyone knows somewhere i can stay please let me know. All i need is a place to put my pc and a place to lay down.

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

just finished playing Harvester for the first time and its firmly in my absolute favorites now. Absolute sucker for so much of what its doing within the aesthetic space of the Weird American Small Town which is a well worn territory but I think Harvester makes it own space in it. One of a kind

I've hit my limit health wise. I've been nauseous for several days now and I fear it's part of something much worse that runs in my family. We need $300 more to make rent Please help us

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

this is what being serious about movies looks like (these are the same movie)

Hey! Starting tomorrow I'll be posting a strip a day of the 1951 manga, Tenshi no Tama-chan by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko. But you probably know them by a different name: Fujiko Fujio! That's right, it's obscure debut from the name that would bring the world Doraemon! hope you like it~

Holy hell in a handbasket, this weeks issues were incredible?! Absolute Wonder Woman wraps it’s second arc, we cover Usagi Yojimbo in our Book Club AND STAR TREK THE LAST STARSHIP IS PHENOMENAL!!! Give it a listen!

please if anyone is able to help my friend with housing or knows anyone that can please help out this is serious

I’d like to apologize to all the F3Akes out there but the universe got in the way of us beating that damn game ONCE AGAIN but if anything that has only increased our resolve. It WILL happen we WILL beat F3AR

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

so...I guess now is a good time to read my post about one of my favorite games ever, Banshee's Last Cry????? The essay also does a very good job at capturing what my brain feels like seeing this game in Street Fighter lmao

New week, new schedule! We are starting Silent Hill f this week and probably playing it most of the week! Wednesday we might be playing through all of F3AR's Co-op campaign with @sethamphetamine.bsky.social if things workout as planned but if not we will just do more SHF! Be there or be square!!

Join me and my good buddy for a FULL playthrough of F3AR a game that is real and can hurt you

New translation! The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" Enjoy!!

We're finally doing it! We're covering a book I've wanted to talk about since we started the show! It's time for Speaker for the Dead!! We also discuss such topics as Wreb, Castle Freak, and XKCD! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...

New post! The Summer of the Ubume is a titanic work of Japanese mystery fiction, a horror-soaked loosening of reality wrapped up in locked rooms and impossible pregnancies. Read my thoughts about it — and the cruel truth of all mysteries — here!

they gotta stop hiring this man

New post! This week I, certified Koji Shiraishi freak, gave into my obsession and wrote 2k words about his latest heater to hit the theater, Kinki. Plus thoughts on how the movie fits into his career, the state of modern J-horror, and the physicality of art! Read it here!

Criticism is dying, for video games and all arts, and by foregoing reviews Silksong helps speed up the process, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/article/silk...

I know people are focused on that *other* indie game, but the dev behind the brilliant Brigand: Oaxaca just released a new game: store.steampowered.com/app/1748160/... It's a rather unique RTwP CRPG, as if Baldur's Gate 1 & RPG Maker had a child. And comes with an editor to make your own adventures

if you’re a Bog Frog or CiW listener or just anyone who has good taste in anything at all you should be reading and following this blog

New Bog Frog! We're talking about the most influential manga you've never heard of! And to help us we brought on the leading English language Saint Muscle expert: @cosmicspooks.bsky.social! Join us as we discuss horse peen, Cum Angels, and Fleshbomb! sites.libsyn.com/485343/minie...

my first podcast appearance!! my friends at the Bog Frog let me absolutely ruin their lovely show with an unhinged NSFW deep dive into one of the most unique mangaka there is Listen or DIE

One of our most off the wall unhinged episodes yet, nothing but the best for Baxter.

New Bog Frog! We're talking about the most influential manga you've never heard of! And to help us we brought on the leading English language Saint Muscle expert: @cosmicspooks.bsky.social! Join us as we discuss horse peen, Cum Angels, and Fleshbomb! sites.libsyn.com/485343/minie...

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

of course there are a few notable exceptions but the answer to “what order should i read/watch/play this series in?” is almost always “order of release.” they didn’t release them in that order by accident

And look forward to episode 11 (already recorded) out early September!

Wren suggests in this episode that Dragon is constantly buzzing the fair city of Montreal and IDK but it really got my ass. Check it out.

old post! On flattened politics, the fantasy of healed scars, and a shadow that can never die...it's my review of Godzilla Minus One!

immediately before crashing into a brick wall at 62 mph:

the magic of war of the worlds 2025 is that there's no better feeling in movie history than when it finishes and you aren't watching war of the worlds 2025 anymore

I wrote a post for the Yale University Press blog on how the stereotypical "manga face" came about and became mainstream. This was something I could not find much information about in secondary literature, so I figured it might be a topic of interest that a new history of manga should discuss.

dog what you mean Kon Ichikawa debuted with a marionette kabuki adaptation (A Girl at Dojo Temple)? And he directed the hell out of it too?? My man running laps around the competition since day one, wowee

40 years later, the story repeats.

It’s just Chloe and Jake this week, so they take the opportunity to go HAM on their special interests (2000AD and Hellboy)! Also some more belter Batgirl, and Monkey Meat continues!

New translation! It's time for another crime adventure from the origin point of gekiga, 1956's Kage. This is about as essential as manga gets, folks It's "The Cursed Diamond" by Shouichi Sakurai! Enjoy!!