This week, Jared and I jump into Reload’s version of The Answer, Episode Aigis. We talk about our feelings about the original, how this one compares to that (for better and for worse), and our thoughts on the story and added character moments.
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This week, Jared and I take a look at almost 40 years of console launches to see which console started off the strongest right out of the gate.
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This week, Jared and I chat about the announcements and trailers from Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Showcase, and Ubisoft Forward. We talk about what we’re excited for, what surprised us, and how this year was weird.
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This week, we’re back with more of me experiencing wtf is going on with Hideo Kojima’s brain. Jared played through Metal Gear Solid 2, and we chat about my overall thoughts, the changes that had to be made, and the historical implications and intellectual theories that go along with this game.
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This week, Jared and I get to talk about a sleeper hit from last year, Vanillaware’s 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Since we’d be here for days if we went beat by beat on the story, we chat about the general overview of the story, our favorite moments and characters, and we read through Jared’s notes he took to try and keep everything straight in his head.
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A while back, Jared and I talked about the 2014-2015 version of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. It’s a fantastic and bizarre (forgive me) anime, and so Jared and I wanted to go back to the early days of Stardust Crusaders and see what the animated offerings were from 1993 and 2000. We ask how does this adaptation compare to the newer version? Why is it so much more violent? Why can’t anybody pronounce anything!?! Yare yare daze.
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This week, we play two games in which neither of them has the full version out yet. Whoops. First, we start with the Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III demo. Jared and I are huge fans of the Cold Steel series, and the demo gave us a quick intro to what’s happened since II with Rean. We’re both lamenting that we now have to wait a whole month to play it. Then we talked about the first 4 episodes of Life is Strange 2. We discuss the story, our decisions, and how this game has some amazing political commentary. Again, now we wait until later this year to see where it goes, but we’re looking forward to that conclusion.
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So, I did a not very AL-like thing and watched a bunch of anime on a whim recently after I finished a kdrama and started getting Netflix recommendations. First, I watched 2011’s Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, which is sad and cute. After that, I watched one that I wasn’t as into, KyoAni’s Violet Evergarden. While it’s definitely beautiful, I discuss my problems with it here. The last one I watched was Kaguya-sama: Love is War from earlier this year. Jared actually had watched some of that, so we got to chat about what we liked and what it reminds me of. LASTLY, Jared ran a super gauntlet and has finally finished all 220 episodes of Naruto, including all the filler. You get to hear his thoughts too.
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Leave a CommentHi all! This week, Jared and I decided to talk about the other Nintendo contender for game of the year–Super Mario Odyssey! We talk about nostalgia, mechanics, music (because of course. It’s me!), our favorite things to throw Cappy on, our favorite and least favorite stages, and how it compares to past Mario games. We give a spoiler warning before we get too deep into the story.
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Leave a CommentWhat is Vega?
Vega is a tool for creating visualizations based on D3.js and JavaScript. For comparison, Vega is the D3.js equivalent to R’s ggplot2. While D3 visualizations require you to think of all of the possible aspects of the visualization, Vega allows for quick visualizations through data manipulation without needing to input all the little details that quickly become quite complicated. As with D3, Vega is creates a JSON visualization that is a representation of the data that is fed to it.