We’ve lost a lot of beloved people these last couple of years. MF DOOM, DMX, Kobe, Chadwick, Kazuki Takahashi, Kevin Conroy, Takeoff. All loved more than can be properly and competently expressed with words. This one stings the most for me, though.
I was a Power Rangers kid. I loved Tommy Oliver. We all loved him. Every last one of us wanted to be the Green/White Ranger. Every last one.
Despite being a Toonami kid, my history with Gundam is more recent rather than storied. Instead of watching Gundam Wing as a kid, I was watching Iron Blooded orphans in high school. Since then, I’ve gotten more into the franchise over time, especially over the course of this pandemic. I wanna sit down and take some time to talk about the ones I’ve watched.
At the time of writing, I’ve seen
I was originally gonna hold off on posting this until I got some nice pictures from the wedding to go with it, but it’s been a while, so I’ll just post about this and edit in the pics later.
Back on October 22nd, my older brother tied the knot. I don’t mind my brother’s love life much, but that’s my big bro - I’m so happy he’s found someone that makes him happy.
I’ve been playing Dinomorphia a lot, even more than before. I’ve taken to properly playing full matches on YGO Omega ranked and thinking over my card choices. Decided to make a post going over the cards and my thought process in more detail. I don’t necessarily think my build is super special, but it’s definitely mine and I have a lot of fun running it.
Monster line-up 1x Miscellaneousaurus - The 1-of Misc.
Been a lot of the “Same shit, different day” type ish lately, so it took a while for me to get off my ass and start typing.
Card Games Shadowverse has a new expansion, and the mini-expansion for it just dropped. Evo Sword and Dirt Rune got some really cool cards. However, I’ve been playing more YGO these past couple weeks, mainly because Dinomorphia is finally in Master Duel. It’s incomplete, so it’s ass, but it’s there, and hopefully the wait for the rest of the archetype isn’t too long.
Unlike the rest of the world, this pandemic has mostly been a time for me to step up my involvement with fighting games rather than take a step away from them. Being stuck at home meant I had access to a wired connection instead of dorm WiFi, so I’ve netplayed a lot over the course of the pandemic.
Most people took the absence of offline events as a hit to their motivation to play the genre.
Welp, I’ve made it another year, completed my 24th trip around the sun.
I don’t have a lot to say. These last couple years in this pandemic haven’t been the most productive for me, career-wise or socially, if I’m being up front. What they have been, for lack of a better word, is humbling. Not that I think I was cocky before the pandemic or anything. I just feel like these last couple years stuck inside my house watching the world around me has kinda emphasized/beaten in things I was thinking when I was on my way out of undergrad.
I play a lot of video games, but online card games have been the most convenient for me to play in these last couple months. I’ve gotten to try out a lot of different decks, so I thought I’d post an update talking about the ones I’m playing right now.
Normal Summon Aleister Thunder Invoked So the first deck I’m gonna talk about is my main deck on Master Duel - Invoked Thunder Dragons.
During these past few months, the newest Super Sentai series, Donbrothers, began. My history with Sentai is way more on and off compared to my time with its sibling series, Kamen Rider. While I’ve generally consumed Kamen Rider content like an addict, I’ve only lightly dipped into Sentai and have yet to actually finish a series at the time of this writing. I got 9 episodes into Zenkaiger, which I honestly did enjoy a lot.
