Batman: The Killing Joke is one of those comic books that needs no introduction.
As one of the most iconic stories involving the Joker, Killing Joke has a massive influence on the character’s portrayal in modern times.
But I’m not here to wax poetics about how good Killing Joke is. It doesn’t need to be shilled any further.
I’m just going to complain about how some people out there dare to have different opinions than me.
Continue reading “Killing Joke: People Missing What ‘One Bad Day’ Means”
We all made fun of AirPods back when they came out but look where we are…
While I still think the stems look super weird, I can’t deny that the convenience of wireless has a certain appeal.
But like a lot of Apple products, AirPods (Pro or Amateur) will give you a rude awakening once you see the price.
But there’s cheaper alternatives, right?
Definitely, but the answer isn’t whatever the fuck I ended up buying.
Continue reading “JBL Endurance Peak II Review: Or How I Learned to Hate It Even More”
I’ll admit it right away, I’m not the biggest fan of Mamoru Hosoda’s work. They’re really well-made movies with beautiful art and animation but I just don’t connect with them for one reason or another.
I almost feel bad because I usually don’t have any good reasons for that either.
Sure, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Your Name, but I can pinpoint a few things that I felt didn’t work well. With Hosoda’s movies, they’re generally pretty alright, but I just dislike them for reasons I can’t justify properly.
Continue reading “Belle Review: Stylish but Unconvincing”
I’m of the belief that mysteries shouldn’t have too many rules. As cliché as it is for the butler to have done it, I don’t want to experience mysteries where I can immediately rule out to butler because it’d be too obvious.
Hell, more butlers should do it just to shake things up. Maybe Jeeves is tired of being surrounded by incompetent bastards and bashes a couple of heads in with a chair leg.
Anyway, I prefer my mysteries to be a bit wild. Unpredictable. Sensible, when it gets to the end and all is revealed, but crazy enough that I couldn’t just rule out solutions just because they’re tropes.
And then there’s Disco Elysium.
Continue reading “Disco Elysium, Mystery Fiction, and the Point of it All”
Last weekend, I decided to go on a short hike. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The rain had come and gone, the sky was visible for the first time in days, and things seemed to be on an upwards trajectory.
I’m just gonna blame brain damage induced by the pollution for that decision and take absolutely no responsibility whatsoever. Anyway, we decided on the Jamchen Vijaya Stupa in Budanilkhantha as our destination. The logic behind it was that it was new and shiny and we aren’t the smartest people in the world.
Continue reading “Jamchen Vijaya Stupa; Or Why You Shouldn’t Hike in a Smog”
I was a huge reader back when I was young, going through books like they were nothing. Of course, my young mind couldn’t really grasp the implications of most of them, so they’d just slid off my brain. You can’t really give The Brothers Karamazov to an eight-year-old and expect the little bastard to get anything.
That’s not the case for everything, though, and some stories get burned into your mind so clearly that you still remember it fifteen years later. Sometimes those are pretty unassuming too. Not well-known classics or bestsellers, just some random story that grabs hold of an impressionable mind.
Continue reading “Arbitrary Gestures and Bhitta ko Namaste”
The spooky month of October is here, made extra spooky by the fact that this entire year has been a long fucking nightmare. With that said, what better way to cope than by reading about poor bastards that have it worse than us.
So, here is a list of some of my favourite horror books of all time. I’m sure everyone and their pet Labrador has read Dracula, Frankenstein, At the Mountains of Madness, and all the other famous ones at this point, so I’ll try to avoid those. I’m also going to try to avoid talking about the actual plot for the sake of preserving the tension.
Continue reading “Some Horror Book Recommendations for this Halloween”
As most of the summer is going by with most of us still locked indoors, I have been getting my fill of the summer aesthetic by watching films that feel like summer. So here is a list of sunny, happy, and relaxed movies with summertime vibes that I hope you guys will enjoy as well.
(Okay, the profit part is a lie but hey, if a weird story about a crazy guy who really hates chairs can lead to one of the biggest media franchises in the world then anything is possible)
Usually, the first thing people know about the Fate series, is that there is a lot of it. The second thing is probably the female King Arthur with more alternate versions than there are Fate spinoffs but we’ll get to it later.
Fate has a reputation for being hard to get into, and it’s not completely unfounded. Between the nonsense titles, different routes within one work, multiple adaptations, and a ton of spin-offs that may or may not have anything to do with the main series, it’s easy to get lost.
Fortunately, it’s easier to get into the series than the memes might suggest. I wouldn’t say it’s ‘easy’ exactly, but its no Kingdom Hearts.
Continue reading “Getting into the Fate Series for Fun and Profit [UPDATED]”