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Reflecting on RWBY Part 2: Contradictions

How do you even start to talk about RWBY? There’s so much to unpack here. It’s not for no reason that the online discourse on this...

2024-09-13 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

Stepping back, shrinking down

After spending the better part of a decade of game dev being the central anchor in my life, I’m rapidly stepping back from it. This is...

2024-09-04 by XCVG Game Dev Long Form

Reflecting on RWBY Part 1: The Rewatch

As usual, I am fashionably late. I started my (re)watch of RWBY shortly after Rooster Teeth announced they were shutting down, but it took me until...

2024-08-06 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

The Canoscan FS4000 Film Scanner

This is my Canoscan FS4000. It’s a dedicated film scanner with a 4000dpi resolution, infrared cleaning, a USB interface, and batch scanning capability. I got it...

2024-06-20 by XCVG Long Form Photography

The Fallout series is a sequel to the games

…and I kinda wish it wasn’t. I’m deeply divided on the Fallout TV show, because I love it as an adaptation, but I don’t love it...

2024-04-28 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

I’m (still) disappointed by the Halo show

I’m fashionably late to the party, but I can’t not talk about the Halo show. While I was writing this, it was tentatively titled I don’t...

2024-04-07 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

The Eaget Box: A Thrift Store Curiosity

I found this weird thing at the thrift store. A box in the electronics section, with some USB ports, AV jacks, an a hard drive bay....

2024-03-17 by XCVG Long Form Tech

The Thunderbolt Compatibility Conundrum

This looks like it should work, but it doesn’t. It’s not because I’ve used an outright wrong adapter, say a USB-C to mDP adapter in the...

2024-02-25 by XCVG Long Form Tech

Style, Setting, and Sequels: Musings On John Wick

This is (obviously) not the long-promised “shrinking as a creator” post. I will get to that one, but to open 2024, I wanted to do something...

2024-01-08 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

I wanted to love Starfield

Or, how to break your game loop

2023-10-29 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

Unity: My journey and my take

It’s an exaggeration to say my experience with the Unity engine is synonymous with my journey in game development, but not by much. I started using...

2023-09-16 by XCVG Game Dev Long Form

On visual novels and dialogue systems

So, I’ve mentioned my various visual novel projects. Not so much here, but elsewhere. What’s funny is there’s a direct lineage, at least technically, from the...

2023-01-20 by XCVG Game Dev Long Form

Back to the blogosphere?!

Welcome to my blog. Wait, what? Why am I launching a blog in 2022, and what’s even going to be on it?

2022-11-15 by XCVG Long Form Site News