Meet the Interior Designers That Paved the Way for Final Fantasy 14 Housing

Over the years following its successful rebirth, Final Fantasy 14 has turned its adventurers into more than just battle-hardened brawlers destined to beat up all kinds of godlike...

Have We Reached Peak Joker?

“Peak oil” is the theory that there is a maximum production rate for oil, a limit we will hit as natural reserves becomes more scarce and the effort to drain them increases. With 2019’s Joker,...

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is a Pokemon Game Actually About Friendship

If you’d only ever watched the animated series, it would be easy to believe that the core theme of Pokemon is friendship. However, the games offer a very different story to that of Ash a...

Why Were Anime Dub Openings So Weird?

America has always had a strange relationship with Japanese media and pop culture. From the weirdness of DiC’s Sonic Cartoons to everything about Digimon: The Movie, it’s plain to see that lice...

A Pilgrimage to Scott Steiner's Shoney's

Four years ago, my favorite wrestler purchased a dilapidated Shoney’s in Acworth, Georgia (across from the Cabela’s). It was such a notable event in Shoney’s history that the restaurant chain posted a...

A Behavioral and Anatomical Examination of Sirfetch'd, the Most Horrifying Pokémon Ever

The email was innocuous enough. “Meet Sirfetch’d!” the subject line read, excitedly introducing the newest addition to the Pokemon Sword and Shield games. The internet went wild, as...

Cooking With Grammeowster Chef from Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

If you’re looking to dominate the food chain in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, then you’re going to need to impress a multitude of people and creatures alike. But if we’re talking in a liter...

The Best Way to Watch WWE is Through Fan-Made Music Videos

Even the best WWE storylines, the ones that mostly make sense and pay off in the end, usually include a lot of filler and at least one creative misstep. Good or bad, angles are often presented in thei...

7 Pokemon That Remind Me of My Chinese-American Upbringing

Pokemon was a huge part of my life growing up. Even though I’ve fallen off of the franchise a bit, the upcoming release of Sword and Shield is getting me excited about it all over...

A Look Back at the Armor of Destiny 1

Over the lifespan of the original Destiny, the armor designs kept getting more and more flashy. Each expansion paired its specific theme to its visuals, including the on-character gear design...

Ranking the Cast of Destiny 2 by How Much of a Podcaster They Are

Cayde has never heard of a podcast. He thinks “MBMBaM” is a cool new catch phrase to shout when he does a flip or executes a bunch of prisoners. When he has to use a computer his first instinct is to...

I Feel Just Awful About Sucking Up Ghosts in Luigi's Mansion 3

Luigi’s Mansion 3 is a lovely game. From the care put into the visual design to the satisfaction of finding secrets, everything about it is charming. Well, almost everything. See, I have...

5 Genuinely Good Ideas in Garfield Kart Furious Racing

Last night, in a move I can only describe as “fueled by a deep and all-encompassing self loathing,” I streamed Garfield Kart: Furious Racing. As you might expect, the game is a third-rat...

The Physicality of Consciousness: A Conversation With Larry Fessenden

As a character actor, Larry Fessenden has appeared in films like You’re Next and The Dead Don’t Die, plus numerous cameos in productions by his company Glass Eye Pix, which has been cran...

9 Pokemon That Are Absolutely High as Shit, Like, Right This Minute

7 Reasons Every JRPG Fan Should Try Trails of Cold Steel (& More)

When I was nine, my friend Bobby invited me over to see this new game: Grandia. In it, there was a guy who piloted a flying ship and called someone “bastard.” I’ve...

Why is Adult Animation in America All So Same-y?

During the presentation for the 2019 Academy Awards’ “Best Animated Feature” category, the presenters jumped through some strange hoops to justify giving such importance to “kids’” films, despite the...

How Metal Gear Eschewed Realism to Convey the Horror of Imperial Violence

The Department of Homeland Security was established November 25th, 2002. Immigration and Custom Enforcement was established March 1st, 2003. The War on Terror is harder to formally establish a startin...

A League of Their Own: Women's Esports in Southeast Asia

In a 2017 interview with ESPN, Korean Overwatch League star Kim “Geguri” Se-Yeon described wanting to disguise her voice with a modulator so that male players would team up with her. This is ju...

I Made Chili Dogs Using Sonic the Hedgehog's Official Recipe

Not long ago, I chronicled every instance of chili dogs appearing throughout the various continuities of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. In sifting through the nine different chili dog entries...