A Self-Proclaimed Dreamer

      Hey friends, if you're anything like me, you're pretty excited for the third Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Therefore today, I want to talk a little bit about the second movie now that it's been a little while since it first came out. I'm not going to worry too much about covering up spoilers, because really I think anyone interested in it has probably already seen it by now, and if not, please get on it! It's a fun time and I liked it a lot. I could have done without the part where Sonic and Tails have a dance off in the mountains, but overall, the movie was pretty good, though definitely aimed at a younger audience. Without further ado, let's get into it and start going fast! Two Tails Are Better Than One!     If you saw the first Sonic movie, they ended things off on a bit of a cliffhanger. Sonic was able to banish Dr. Robotnik AKA Eggman (Jim Carey) to a mushroom planet (presumed to be Mushroom Hill Zone from Sonic & Knuckles ), and finally found a home...

      Hey there friends. It's good to see me, isn't it? It has been a little while since I wrote anything about a movie that I've seen recently, but I just watched the new Wicked movie over Thanksgiving break, and I thought I'd write a little ditty about it while it's still fresh in my mind. I'll do my best to keep away from spoilers in this writing, but the show has also been running on and off broadway for 20 years now, so I'm not sure exactly how secretive I need to be here. This movie is also doing very well in theaters, so chances are that most have already seen it, but I thought it would be worth a shot! Let's begin, and as the movie suggests, we'll start at the end. Which Witch is Which?     Wicked is the story of Elphaba, or the Wicked Witch of the West, and Galinda, better known as Glinda, the Good Witch, as they first met at Shiz University, and shows exactly how things came to be in The Wizard of Oz . It's an odd premise for a musical...

     Hey friends, the Game Awards nominees just came out last week, so I think it's about time to discuss my thoughts again. As I say every year, these awards don't really mean anything, so the "Fandom Wars" that surround these events is largely unfounded. Just because your favorite game doesn't win the top prize, it doesn't mean that whatever wins should objectively be your favorite. The entertainment media is built completely on subjectivity, so the idea of there being an objective truth in this manner is silly, but it is a fun time. This shouldn't be too long of a post, I just wanted to get my thoughts out there before the show airs on December 12. I hope you'll bear with me as I dust off my awards suit and prepare for the big night! Gaming's Biggest Night That Doesn't Really Matter...     I'll go ahead and address the elephant in the room right away. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is nominated for Game of the Year, despite it being ...

 Hey friends, have you ever played a game or watched a movie that made you ask yourself every few seconds, "Who did they make this for?" That is a question that I began asking at the character select screen for Funko Fusion , and a question that I repeated ad nauseum until the game came to a close. I ended up playing all the way through this game, and while I didn't really enjoy my time with it for the most part, there is definitely a lot to talk about in it. I hope you'll bear with me today as I recount one of the strangest games that I've played in some time, and hopefully it'll at least be funny. Today, we're taking a trip to the Funko Wonderworks Factory. An Unexpected Amount of Lore...     Funko Fusion is essentially an effort to make a Lego game with a bunch of different properties, but with Funko Pop figures. It's going to be like Lego Dimensions , but without the real life figures, right? That's what I thought going into the game, but the ...

 Hey friends! Have you seen the video that Nintendo put out the other day? Shigeru Miyamoto showed around the new expansion for Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan, after several years in development, which followed quite a few years of rumors and hopes for what a new expansion would look like. The new area is based on Donkey Kong Country , which is having a really nice period of nostalgia for it, after the most recent game came out back in 2014 with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Wii U, and unless you count the Switch Port, the DKC series has been dormant since then. We are getting a port of Donkey Kong Country Returns, which was a Wii game, but that hardly counts for a new game either. At the very least, we're getting what looks to be a really cool amusement park land out of the property. Today I'd like to talk just a little bit about this area, and how excited I am for it, even though I still haven't been able to go to either of the versions of Supe...

     Hey friends. It feels like these personal posts are coming up much more often now, especially since I am working on a few different courses related to potential vocational calling and betterment, and I hope you won't mind another writing about the things that I'm wrestling with right now. The upside for some of you is that this post will most likely not be quite as long as some that I've written in the past. The classes that I'm taking are making me explore just what it means to be searching. What am I called to, what am I called away from, etc. Many questions have related with me through different songs, weirdly from Disney movies. If you know me, then you actually know that it's not that weird for me to be relating things to Disney (I have my red Disney shirt on even as I type this). The first week, as we were first talking about "doing the next right thing," of course, I thought of the song "Do the next right thing" from Frozen 2, the nex...