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Link Scoop 002: Scoop Harder

Let’s scoop harder with the new Link Scoop!

I’ll provide you with all the stories from around the internet I’ve been discovering, and some fun bonus stuff here and there too. Cool stuff from this series of tubes we call home.

So let’s scoop harder right into today’s links.

Jet Force Gemini’s coming to Switch Online!

In my massive Rareware Alternate History storyline, Jet Force Gemini played a pivotal bit part in keeping Rare and Nintendo together. I never actually played it that ...

Movie Studio Market Share 1995-2023: Trends I’ve Noticed

For movie box office, one thing that’s not talked about enough is movie studio market share. How many studios are releasing big movies? How many studios get a share of the pie? It’s always fluctuating, but there’s some concerning trends that could really impact the future of movies. And trends that can reassure us that a film apocalypse is not to come.

So, I’ll do a little unscientific case study (sorry Stephen Follows, no science here) and look at five different years for movie studio market...

Link Scoop 001: Let’s Go

Welcome to Link Scoop, my brand-new… blog series? Newsletter? Whatever this is.

Basically, the idea is simple. I give you some links–scoop up, as you might say–from across the internet. It WON’T be timely news-oriented stuff… usually. A mix of longer reads, videos, weird stuff, and whatever piques my interest. Hopefully it’ll pique yours too (then you can subscribe to my blog).

Let’s begin the first-ever Link Scoop! Enjoy these assorted pieces of internet ephemera.

An Art Collection of ...

Note Taking Workflow Experiments – Phase One

I’ve been struggling with note taking workflow and my creative output for years. I’ve never found the right balance. Maybe soon I will.

This is based on my 11/14/2023 Life Rambles post. I started rambling on there, then it got so long I spun it off into its own note taking workflow article!

These are, basically, the segments of my note taking workflow:

Life reminders, important info retrieval, schedules shopping lists.I have a strange brain and sometimes need to be reminded to do stu...

Life Rambles – 11/14/2023

Here’s my Life Rambles post for 11/14/2023, where I talk about various topics in my daily and creative life. For 11/14/2023, that is. As you know from my last post, I’m still trying to figure out what this thing might actually end up being.

I’ve been emotionally kind of down the last couple days. In a real self-pity mood, which is the worst kind of mood for me to act irrationally. So I’m just keeping it down-low until pay day when I can blow all my money on, uh, paying bills I guess. Hopefull...

What if Nintendo Bought Rare in 2002? – An Alternate History

I’ve always wondered, what if Nintendo bought Rare in the Gamecube era? What would Nintendo’s dire Gamecube release been like? What would Nintendo be like today?

That’s what I’m gonna write about today, in the form of an alternate history document. We can pretend some other universe had all this happen, and imagine the fallout side effects. Good and bad both. But of course, as an alternate universe story, I’m gonna make it kind of best-case scenario. It’s more fun that way.

Introduction: W...

Life Rambles – 11/06/2023

Welcome to another life rambles, where I post a few things about my life in short succession.

Vacation Week

I had to work my first-ever Saturday as a teacher. It was weird and messed with my internal schedule for a while after! But thanks to that, Monday was off. And then Friday was Culture Day, a national holiday. Tuesday was Halloween, and Thursday was my birthday. So I took 3 vacation days and had the whole span off, from 10/29 to 11/5. Eight days to do whatever the heck I wanted!

…S...

Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick Ruined My Childhood

I wrote a review of Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick on Letterboxd and decided it was too nice for just that site. I’m reposting it here!

I remember seeing an ad for Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick in a magazine. If you knew ten-year-old me, this was an extremely very big deal. Star Wars Episode 3 was about to come out and I was absolutely ravenous for any piece of media connected to it. I watched the trailers incessantly, visited Starwars.com every single day, rewatched the Clon...

Lamenting 20th Century Fox Adult Blockbusters

They promised it wouldn’t happen like this, but it happened, and the world lost most 20th Century Fox adult blockbusters.

It’s particularly disheartening when The Creator has just released under 20th Century Studios. It’s not doing very well at the box office… Not a disaster or anything, but it’s going to struggle to hit $150 million. Everyone complains about the lack of original movies made for adults, but then they never turn out for stuff like this. And each time it happens, Disney gets le...

Life Rambles – 10/25/2023

I’m experimenting with more general blogging, so here’s my first Life Rambles post. So here’s some short various rambles not long enough for a post of their own.

Blog Structure

Oh, first off, a meta-point about this very Life Rambles idea.

As I said last week, I feel in flux about the current internet social networking age. But I’m still interested in writing stuff that’s more casual and not essay-like. I’m wondering about Mastodon and ActivityPub and if there’s a way to connect all thi...