Reflections: Am I just overthinking IGN’s top 25 anime list?

Just shy of a month ago, IGN released an article that was titled “The Best 25 Anime Series of All Time.” Now this list is objectively garbage. If I can be allowed to rant for a second, it is basically the equivalent of making a list of the best 25 video games of a all […]

My (Not So) Geeky Past brought to you by Voyager

Huzzah. I have been tagged and must share the deepest secrets of my geeky backstory. Well, maybe not the deepest secrets, maybe only the somewhat deep secrets. OK. Let’s face it. My secrets are pretty shallow. Voyager tagged me as part of The Geeky Childhood Tag. It’s a tag game that he picked up and […]

Reflections of an old anime fan: On gatekeeping

For the last couple weeks I’ve been thinking about gatekeeping, inspired mostly be Irina’s post about why she doesn’t participate in it. Here’s the thing. There was a time when the people that liked video games, roleplaying games, Magic cards and anime were the outsiders. These were the people nobody else wanted to know. They […]