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RE Requiem was so fucking good but like specifically I'm in love with Angela Sant'Albano's performance as Grace. She was fucking *phenomenal,* and I hope this role catapults her into some more dope work. I full expect to see her get nominated for Best Performance a The Game Awards this year.
I'M GONNA KEEP TALKING AND THERE'S A FEW SPOILERS AHEAD FROM THE FIRST HOUR OF THE GAME SO BE WARNED
Very specifically, I think that the moment that has stuck out to me the most from her performance is after Alyssa is murdered. I have heard a billion "my loved one just died in front of me" screams and sobs and I genuinely think this is the single best one. Every time I've seen that scene it just evokes a gut-wrenching, visceral, sickening horror and sadness in my stomach. It is masterful fucking work.
And then all the small stuff is just beautiful. The shakiness of Grace slowly evolving into more resolution. Her softness, her fear, her resolve. I also just love Grace as a character. She's so unlike our typical RE protagonists. I just wanna give her a hug and sit her down next to a fireplace with a weighted blanket and some hot chocolate and tell her everything is gonna be okay. 10/10 no notes.
Quick little Fjord edit I whipped up because the new Noah Kahan song has me feelings things. I'm quite proud of it!
I'm heavily considering making an alternate (and longer) version for Caleb because hot damn does it fit out favorite sad wizard.
A look back at the games I played and loved during 2025
It's a new year! So why not celebrate by listening to a random man talk about some of his favorite video games from 2025!
The way CR is adapting the Mighty Nein into animation is one of the best adaptations I think I've ever seen. I love the changes and tweaks they've made so fucking much.
I love how much Vess and Aeor foreshadowing we're getting.
I love that we're seeing Astrid and Audwulf this early.
I love seeing off-table Essek backstory both with Trent and with his mom.
To this point the only thing I'm even mildly disappointed with is how little Yasha we've gotten (though we've still gotten more Yasha to this point than we did to this point in the campaign, so hey), and I do expect her to properly join the Nein in the season finale.
I am so so excited to see what Season 2 has in store. If they get a long leash from Amazon I'd love to see it go like nine seasons. I doubt that happens, but a man can dream. They're setting the table so well.

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Episode 5 of The Mighty Nein is peak fucking cinema holy shit holy shit holy shit
The year is 2015: Treyarch makes a Black Ops game whose story is a sequel to Black Ops 2. The campaign can be played co-op, and you can even earn camos. It is immediately considered the worst Black Ops campaign of all time. The rest of the game is pretty good.
The year is 2025: Treyarch makes a Black Ops game whose story is a sequel to Black Ops 2. The campaign can be played co-op, and you can even earn camos. It is immediately considered the worst Black Ops campaign of all time. The rest of the game is pretty good.
Same person, by the way.
Dispatch really started peak, stayed peak, and ended peak. Not only is the game fucking phenomenal, I don't know if I've ever been so happy with all my choices on the first run of a choice-heavy game. Really put together my "canon" run first try.
AdHoc idk what your plans are but pleeeeaaasssee give me some more with this IP. A free-for-all Dispatch mode where it's just shifts that progress in difficulty with no story would hoenstly be so fun. Or more comics, or whatever you got. Blank fuckin check
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It's true! If you're interested, this is a little piece I wrote about some of my favorite aspects of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. It's not a review, just a guy yelling into the void about something he really enjoyed.
You can read it if you'd like! Or not, I'm not your dad.

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THAT'S HOW EPISODE 6 ENDS???!!!???
Is it a hot take to say that Astarion is absolutely fucking worthless within the main narrative of BG3?
Like don’t get me wrong, I like him as a character a lot, both as just a companion and a romance. And you’ll never hear me complain about more Neil Newbon.
But like he is so completely detached from the main arcs of the story. More than literally any other companion character, origin or otherwise. Narratively, he is who people think Wyll is.
Is this a hot take? Should I expound on this? Am I late to the party? I genuinely don’t know.
Okay, I'm elaborating.
First things first, I would like to reiterate that I like Astarion as a character and this is not an Astarion hate post.
Second things second, I'm very much viewing this through a DnD lens, as Larian did a fantastic job of making BG3 feel like DnD. So these are observations unique to this game specifically and not an argument about video games as a medium. I know most video companions don't have stories that tie directly to the main plot, but this isn't most video games.
In that same vein, when I talk about the "Main Narrative" of BG3, I am specifically referring to the 3 major arcs of the game:
Dealing with the Grove and the Goblin Leaders
Dealing with Ketheric and the Shadow Curse
Obtaining Gortash and Orin's Netherstones and defeating the Brain
If a quest or moment is tied into one of those arcs, I consider it part of the main narrative, even if it's technically "missable." Them's the brakes in DnD land.
So. Here we go.
Larian did an incredible job of tying the backstories and personal arcs of the party companions into the main quest, just as a good DM would do for their players. For the most part, each has multiple points of contact to the main narrative, and several are intertwined, which is another hallmark of really good DnD narratives. For posterity sake, let's run down the list:
Shadowheart: connected to the Artifact; connected to the Shadow Curse and Nightsong by virtue of Shar/Dark Justiciars; intertwined with Lae'zel by virtue of the artifact
Gale: connected to the Crown via the Orb and his backstory with Mystra
Wyll: connected to Duke Ravengard, thus connected to the Chosen; intertwined with Karlach via Mizora; mildly connected to killing the Goblin leader by virtue of being the Blade of Frontiers
Lae'zel: connected to the Artifact by virtue of being a zealous Gith, as such is intertwined with Shadowheart; connected to Orpheus either yay or nay, but connected either way
Karlach: connected directly to Gortash; intertwined with Wyll via Mizora
And then there's Astarion. Who isn't connected to jack shit. With the exception of the encounter with Araj Oblodra in Moonrise (sort of), Astarion's only narrative threads are Cazador (and even the Araj encounter is pretty directly descended from his Cazador trauma, though it's more focused on his self-actualization, so I give it half).
Cazador is wholly removed from the main narrative of the game, and even just the main stuff you're doing in Act 3. Everyone else's main Act 3 quest is at least tangentially connected to your main objectives, with Shadowheart returning to the Cloister probably being the next furthest.
Karlach is killing Gortash.
Gale is killing the BBEG to get his hands on the Crown.
Lae'zel is getting into the Prism to free/kill Orpheus.
Wyll is rescuing Ravengard.
And then you've got Astarion dragging you completely out of the way for an encounter whose only relevance to the main plot is whether or not the Gur are gonna ally with you in the final battle.
And that's incredibly weird to me. Larian very clearly put a lot of intention into connecting these characters to the greater narrative, so the fact that Astarion isn't feels like a sore thumb.
And what's weirder in my opinion is even the non-origin party companions have stronger ties to the main quest than Astarion does.
Halsin is intimately tied to both the Goblin Leaders and the Shadow Curse (though admittedly he's actually usable for very little of it).
MInthara is connected to killing Ketheric sort of but to killing Orin very much so.
And Jaheira and Minsc (who are so intertwined they're basically one character in Act 3) are connected to Orin twice over, once by virtue of the Zhentarim/Dopplegangers stuff and once by virtue of Sarevok. (Jaheria is also obviously connected to the Shadow Curse and Ketheric in Act 2.)
That's what makes this so weird to me. It isn't "oh Astarion is the only origin character without ties to the main plot," it's "Astarion is the only party companion period with no ties to the main plot."
Astarion is the player who had a really compelling backstory they wanted to play but just had absolutely no way to work it into the big stuff, so while everyone else is focusing on progressing the narrative, Astarion is busy brooding and doing mischief and talking about Cazador (who, again, is a completely unrelated and off-screen threat until the literal moment you're killing him).
I don't know why. Sometimes it feels like Astarion's only purpose is to be there for people who want their Tav to be more morally ambiguous or outright evil so you have a companion who doesn't judge you. Hell, sometimes Astarion feels like Tav with a backstory. Like he's the main player character in any other game but accidentally became a companion in this one.
I know that Cazador's palace was originally supposed to be much bigger and have much more going on, but that doesn't really feel like it changes anything to me. Unless Cazador was originally connected to the Absolute somehow, simply having more Cazador content on location does nothing to connect Astarion to the main narrative.
The only way you can really even try to weasel Astarion into the main narrative is by connecting him to Raphael, but his deal with Raphael to learn about the scars is so one-off and cut and dry that it really has no long-lasting impacts, and even if you don't kill Yurgir all that does is push back the timeline on when you learn about the Rite of Profane Ascension. It doesn't actually change Astarion's arc even a little.
Now at the end of the day, I don't really think any of this means anything. It doesn't make Astarion a bad character and it doesn't in any way invalidate his personal narrative. And if this was any other video game, I really wouldn't give a shit. But because it's a DnD game and because Larian did such a good job of modeling it after real DnD campaigns and because literally every other party companion has ties to the main narrative in one way or another, it just really really sticks out to me how narratively meaningless Astarion is (in relation to the main quest only).
If anything, I think it proves just how good Neil Newbon's performance was, that Astarion is such a beloved character despite being almost completely irrelevant in the scope of the game's story.
I think it also really rings true the Oscar Wilde quote: "It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious."
Astarion is charming. Wyll is tedious. (Or Lae'zel, if you ask me.)
Is it a hot take to say that Astarion is absolutely fucking worthless within the main narrative of BG3?
Like don’t get me wrong, I like him as a character a lot, both as just a companion and a romance. And you’ll never hear me complain about more Neil Newbon.
But like he is so completely detached from the main arcs of the story. More than literally any other companion character, origin or otherwise. Narratively, he is who people think Wyll is.
Is this a hot take? Should I expound on this? Am I late to the party? I genuinely don’t know.
Here's a dumb idea I've had for the last week and a half. Smeech vs. Sevika, Kpop Demon Hunters style.
It's been about an hour and a half since I got out of my showing of Fantastic Four: The First Steps and I am still thinking about the Silver Surfer. I am absolutely obsessed with her.
Her design is so fucking cool, but more than that, her movements are so wildly mesmerizing. Every time she was on screen I was just in awe of the fluidity and liquidity of her movements. The way they were able to capture that liquid metal feel and visual is an absolute treat to watch, and it pairs with the effects on her voice so well.
Julia Garner's performance was incredible, and I think the scene with her and Johnny in Times Square might be my single favorite scene in the entire MCU.
(Also the movie as a whole was fantastic *ba dum tss*, easily my favorite MCU film since Endgame, and I will almost certainly go see it again. But goddamn was Silver Surfer a highlight for me. She's so fucking cool)

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lmao I just remembered how dumb and stupid my first playthrough of BG3 was, and while there were many reasons (and lots of missed side stuff), two of the funniest were near-identical companion misses:
I did not find and recruit Karlach until I'd fully completed the Druid's Grove questline, thus meaning I couldn't get her first engine upgrade until Last Light
I completely missed Lae'zel in the Tiefling cage and so did not have her until I was literally finishing Act 1 (well, the forest region at least. I had her for the Creche but I also didn't do the Creche until I was at the POR before the Shadowfell)
God that playthrough was so goofy
This is kind of an insane thing to return and shout into the void about, but over the last couple months I've been getting into the lore and world of The Witcher (I know I'm incredibly late to the party) and... I think it's made me appreciate Season 3 of the Legend of Vox Machina more?
Let me explain. For those not in the know, The Witcher has three distinct canons: the books, the games, and the Netflix show. All three of these iterations share lore. But they're all their own thing. The Netflix show is pretty closely adapted from the books (at least initially, I've only seen the first season at this point but if memory serves the show starting to go in its own direction was one of the big reasons Henry Cavill left), but the games kinda do their own thing, while still maintaining some lore from the books.
Now I'm not wildly deep into any of these rivers. I've played The Witcher 3; I've seen the first season of the Netflix show; and I just finished the first book today. But even with just those toes dipped in, I notice changes and adaptations and how things were adjusted, and I've already had moments where I can't remember which piece of media a certain nugget of lore is from.
All of this to say, it's kind of given me a new appreciation for adaptations, and it's really softened the blow of some of the bigger changes they made to Vox Machina's story in Season 3 that I initially really was not on board with. I felt like they were getting to the point where we were no longer getting "animated TV version of the Vox Machina campaign" and instead getting "a new take on the story of Vox Machina drawing heavily on the campaign." Which in the moment, i didn't like.
But now. Because life is stupid and weird and beautiful, showing up years late to the Polish party has sort of recalibrated my brain to be like "no this is literally fine actually, it's just one tributary that splits into separate rivers. They are independent, but intertwined."
So I think that's pretty cool.