Didn't have time to write for Chainsmoker Cat but @jelx.bsky.social's writeup captures my feelings on it. It's upsettingly crass, but there's a bold frankness to the way it portrays addiction. We've seen a few mentally ill anime girls the last few years but none quite this realistically pitiable.

In this episode we mention Dorohedoro is one of the rare anime that is so good it made me read the manga (I do not read manga). This is the full list: - Binbougami ga - Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun - Hinamatsuri - Dorohedoro - Call of the Night season 2 See if you notice any patterns

Reading about Crimson Desert being the latest game to get caught leaving in “early-stage” AI generated assets and I’m just remembering this screenshot I took from Anthem. AI is so bad it has me fondly remembering ANTHEM, do you know how bad that is?

*sigh* I miss Granblue sometimes youtu.be/uzMQhc7obDw

This is the shirt I was wearing while recording the top 10 anime podcast for @glorioblog.bsky.social. Apocalypse Hotel is really good!

It’s that time of year again, time for the only Game Award that matters jels.website/2025-12-12_m...

Let me dust off my shout out to C3-bu from the last time we were talking about this. Seems like this might be really it this time though. jels.website/2024-28-10_R...

I swear I've read about Gainax being officially dead at least once annually for the last 10 years, but in case this is truly finally it, I think back to the obituary I wrote for them in 2024. Truly, there was no studio like Gainax, and there never will be again. gee-blog.vercel.app/RIP-Gainax/

I'm doing this the following weekend (same page and details) and I am wholly unprepared, woo!

Goodness me it's nearly the end of November, so it's time to do the Very Scary Scenario charity gaming streams once again! We're raising money for Mind this year, and a new cast of people playing games and talking for 24 hours or more depending on how much gets donated! More info vscary.co/charity

i cannot believe this ended up as important to the plot as it was

This came in the mail today. I imagine this is the complimentary shirt Yachiyo gives you when an alien guest accidentally destroys your luggage and you have nothing else to wear. You can get the logo from my website if you want to make your own jels.website/shirts

Is there some kind of rate up to get more 3 stars on your first pull or am I blessed by the gacha gods again?

- Notices Uma Musume global just launched - Almost immediately deletes it when I realize I have to rotate my ipad to play

Anime of the year contender Apocalypse Hotel finished today and I felt compelled to recreate the Gingarou Hotel logo for a T-shirt. High res/illustrator file is here if anyone else wants it: jels.website/shirts

This does not seem like it’s worth $200 but FFT is also my favorite game of all time so… na.store.square-enix-games.com/final-fantas...

Dungeon Encounters comic I made a few years ago. Did you know I really like Dungeon Encounters? #moonart

My art for Lancer: Operation Winter Scar has been nominated by the CRIT Awards for Best Cover Art. I'm very proud of the work I've done for Lancer and if you've ever enjoyed my art, please take a couple minutes to vote for me. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Putting aside the results of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, I think it’s weird how they seem to be doing them later and later in the year. You can’t do an annual award show later than maybe March, we’re almost halfway through 2025 now. No one cares about 2024.

Everyone’s pulling Hyacine for their Castorice team, meanwhile I see her built-in 100% Crit Rate and I’m thinking…

Initially feelings on HSR 3.3 story: it would be great if any of it sticks past next update, but we all know it’s not. Sick boss fight though, the best one since Cocolia.

We got big game companies thinking $80 for a game is OK, meanwhile we just got Clair Obscur for $50 and it’s better than anything they’re doing so…

Why are there figures and nendoroids for Lumine/Aether and Belle/Wise but not Stelle/Caelus? Stelle is way better than all of them, it’s not right and I demand justice

Really don’t want to work tomorrow

I have discovered Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society is currently 40% off on Steam, 50% off on Nintendo eShop, and 60% off on PSN. You should probably check it out.

Easiest header image choice in the history of the podcast

The only games I’ve played in the past month are Honkai Star Rail and Marvel Rivals, does this count as a mid-life crisis?

Thinking about the latest HSR story and getting this in writing just in case: what if the Flame Chase is actually creating heroes for a grail war and that’s how they tie in the Fate collab. It’s a big stretch but I can’t rule it out.

Very happy Wordpress can auto post to Bluesky now and I don’t have to remember to do it (which I rarely did)

Alright, new shirt arrived

It’s is now the 10 year anniversary of that time we pretended it was 1995 for April Fools

Bumping this once again with the announcement of the Honkai Star Rail 2nd anniversary rewards. Yeah more free characters are nice, but we’re grading on a curve

Harrison Armory finally presents its Year of the Snake ensemble. Security Captain Valentina Santoso makes a rare return to Ras Shamra, dressed in an outfit that conveys both her military standing and minor celebrity status among the core territories of the Armory.

Excellent, an excuse to re-post one of my favourite Nichijou scenes:

NEW PODCAST DROPPED: It’s season preview time and we talk about a LOT of new anime… like Gundam GQuuuuuuX (again) theglorioblog.com/2025/03/26/t...

T-shirt idea that only me and @irothtin.bsky.social will probably understand

I’m not surprised, but I guess Apple Intelligence is going to turn itself back on every time I update my phone and not tell me. At least it seems the AI settings buried in the Screen Time menu stayed off (for now).

NEW PODCAST DROPPED: Listen to us talk about the Gundam GQuuuuuuX movie (?) for nearly 40 minutes theglorioblog.com/2025/03/12/t...

YOU CAN POST THE DAICON IV OPENING ON BLUESKY NOW

For Chrono Trigger’s 30th birthday, let me dig this back up jels.website/2024-28-10_b...

Happy Miku day. Post your Mikus. My singular contribution. Nationless Miku that dares to ask if you can see any borders from here. What has borders given us? Can we actually see the physical lines that divide one from another?

Quick thoughts on HSR 3.1 Story: - They should have split Mydei and Tribbie stories into separate questlines - Amphoreus still feels too much like Genshin for my taste - Is Mydei x Phainon now the top HSR ship? They really went all in with that

Broad thoughts on my recent experiences with the Shin Megami Tensei franchise after playing V, IV, and IV:A obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

Ok let me repost this with more positive energy: I wrote about my first experience with the new D&D 2024 rules and spoilers, I like them

ROBOT ALCHEMIC DRIVE (#6, 2025/2/23) - games that make you go Hell Yeah!! nothing matches the sensation of standing on a skyscraper and watching a robot land an uppercut on another and send it crashing through a city block. the controls are overloaded as heck but it all feels As It Should Be

I had some more interesting writing ideas about Marvel Rivals, but lost my motivation when I saw they recently laid off a bunch of people. So I decided to write about something made by a company that has never done anything bad or controversial jels.website/2025-02-22_m...

Re: the first 30 seconds of this episode, I work so hard to keep @glorioblog.bsky.social running and this is the level of respect I get… says the guy who forgot to post this yesterday