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Episode 9 of Girls und Panzer: Last ditch effort! starts with a flashback: the Japanese Ministry of Education and a bunch of other stuff, Bureau of School Ships, has decided to consolidate schools to save money.

The bureaucrat meeting with the Oarai School Council tells them the Ministry is starting with schools that have no notable achievements or programs. “Oarai used to have an accomplished Sensha-do team, but that’s been gone for a while…” which prompts Anzu to respond, “Oh! So we’ll restart the Tankery program! You wouldn’t shut down the school with the winning team!”

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Girls und Panzer: Last ditch effort!”

In addition to Dark Souls and Dave the Diver I’ve been playing All The Mods 10, the Minecraft modpack. I have probably thousands of hours of Minecraft experience but I’ve never worked through a big modpack like ATM10 until now. Recently I had a realization, though. I had spent dozens of hours in this pack optimizing and automating my way to being incredibly overpowered without doing much exploring. I can now wander around one-shotting basically everything. There’s no challenge anymore. I’m bored.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “The Masculine Urge to Ruin My Own Playthroughs”

Ethan Rodgers

This week I’m too tired to write much words.

Multiple extremely busy days and little time to rest.

But I still want to know what everyone else is doing. So, what is everyone doing?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

I’ve been playing a game called “Dave the Diver” a lot as of late. It’s an indie game that oozes charm from its graphics and art style to its writing and sense of humor, it’s just a really awesome presentation with gameplay that I really enjoy. However, when you spend 20 minutes to a half hour exploring the ocean depths capturing and harvesting fish and then just get stuck in a bad spot where a shark combos you to death before you have much chance to react, it pisses me off. I don’t like wasting my time.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Difficult vs Punishing”

Ethan Rodgers

This week, I don’t know.

I know I played a bit of Stardew valley. But this week was busy, so it’s kind of a blur.

Something of note is that I’ve been working on getting my GED. I’ve been enjoying learning math, most notably surface area and volume. Currently working on radicals, not as fun, but still interesting.

What’s everyone else doing?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

I’m the gamer who plays certain titles to death, multiple replays exploring every option. While this makes sure I squeeze every ounce of enjoyment for every dollar I spend, it also means I miss a lot of games. Last month PS ran a sale on old titles (probably to increase digital sales do they can justify banning hardcopies) and I finally got around to buying Red Dead Redemption. I’ve been hearing about it for 16 years, so I figured I should get around to it.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “What is an RPG?”

Patrick Young I was part of a dare where a friend had to get 'psycho killer' tattooed on his ass. His name is Chris and lives in Alabama. To be clear: He's probably not an actual psycho killer.

The 1984 Helen Slater-starring Supergirl film was an attempt to cash-in on the successful Salkind-produced Christopher Reeve Superman film series. I enjoy the movie, more in a “so-bad-it’s-good” way; even though the final product is a mess and it’s clear the filmmakers had NO IDEA what they were trying to do. The 2026 Milly Alcock-starring Supergirl is an attempt to introduce Supergirl in DC’s new Gunn-directed universe, and explain why she’s a different character than Superman, rather than just a “female Superman.” The 1984 movie is poorly-conceived, badly-written, is loaded with bad FX and weighed down by bad editing. The 2026 movie is WORTH WATCHING, and even has some greatness, but is hurt by it’s own misguided direction, multiple faults with internal consistency, and mostly poor construction and lack of focus. What most-directly connects the two films is performances by the two stars, Slater and Alcock, elevating the chaos around them. I would have watched Helen Slater play Supergirl opposite Reeve’s Superman, and I’m looking forward to seeing Alcock’s Supergirl alongside Corinswet’s Superman.

This is somewhat of a review with commentary, and there ARE spoilers. If you want to see Supergirl unspoiled (as much as possible) please do not continue.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Supergirl: Almost Great”

Paige Francis He/him