Arts

Game Freak, Pocket Card Jockey and the Beauty of Creation

Judah Belgrade March 13, 2026

“Pocket Card Jockey” is a mix of horse racing and solitaire, where the better you play solitaire, the better your horse performs, but not without correctly paying attention to a handful of factors like the motivation, mood, and positioning of your horse that could be a boon for your performance and sponsor or spell out your doom on the track. The premise is fittingly just as ridiculous. You play as a lazy jockey who tried to ride a racing horse and got kicked off so hard that they died. But fret not! They were revived by an angel (that looks suspiciously like the jockey trainer) who forced them to make a deal in return for their return to life: since they’ve been playing solitaire on easy mode on their

CGI vs Practical Effects: The problem of replacement over incorporation

Chloe Ballew March 13, 2026

Computer Generated Images (CGI) have taken over Hollywood in the last 50 years. Gone are the days of ketchup being substituted for blood in schlocky movies. No longer are directors destroying massive, expensive set pieces to get a single shot,

I Vomited and It Actually Changed My Life

Ethan Prior March 13, 2026

Ask yourself this question: Independently of your work quality, how confident are you in your assignments when you turn them in? When I was a kid, my answer was none. I had no self-confidence after years of getting bullied. I

Sunblighted: Chapter 8

Tales From The Empty Notebook March 13, 2026

Last time on Sunblighted: Tev brings Lih and Gefrol to an inn, suspicion hanging in the air. Despite the distrust, Gefrol leaves Lih in Tev’s care, as a test, while he explores the village, reflecting on his own lack of

Sunblighted: Chapter 7

Last time on Sunblighted: As Tev, the mysterious Canthi lookalike, guides Gefrol and a passed-out Lih through the forest, Gefrol is confident that Lih has made this better future possible, and that he can help Lih fix the world. When Tev asked for Gefrol’s unconditional assistance, claiming that he is

Tales From The Empty Notebook February 27, 2026

Rain, Rain, Go Away

The desert isn’t kind to its inhabitants. The summers are scorching. The winter night is freezing. The dust clings to the back of your throat when your lungs ask for too much. But, it’s the rain that always scared me the most. It warns you days in advance. The dark

Chloe Ballew February 27, 2026

You and I are Polar Opposites: Not your typical highschool romcom (and I really mean it)

Winter 2026 has been a very busy season. Not because of the constant blizzards (as I write this, I’m stuck in New Jersey an extra day after break), nor because of the incoming major proposal deadline (I’m doing this instead), but because there is an abundance of new anime to

Judah Belgrade February 27, 2026

Why does everyone want to fuck Mr. Darcy?

If you haven’t yet read Pride and Prejudice, you clearly aren’t hanging out with the same women as me. I am sure there are many women out there who don’t like Jane Austen; it’s just that I don’t know them. I have been “made” to read this book once for

Casey Shea Dinkin February 6, 2026

Reviewing every episode of ‘Smiling Friends’: season 2

Welcome back to part two of my review of every “Smiling Friends” episode! This time, we’ll be reviewing the second season of this iconic Adult Swim show. “Gwimbly: Definitive Remastered Enhanced Extended Edition DX 4K (Anniversary Director’s Cut)”: It’s no stretch to say that this single episode has permanently

Michael Sun February 6, 2026

‘Final Fantasy Adventures’: Your mystical bittersweet journey

Last semester, I finally purchased a retro game collection that has been sitting on my wishlist since 2019: Collection of Mana featuring Final Fantasy Adventures for the Game Boy, Secret of Mana, and for the first time outside of Japan, Trials of Mana, both for the SNES. The Mana games

Judah Belgrade February 6, 2026

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