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Being A Better Critic
It Follows was an exceptional film that I didn’t initially give a fair shot. I judged the film for all the things it didn’t do in the worst possible way. I learned a valuable lesson about how to engage films when they don’t go the way you want.
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Blue Fields Is Perfect
Final Fantasy VIII’s Blue Fields is the perfect thesis that encapsulates all of what Squall and his team are and endeavor to do.
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AVOutput in 2026
This year I am going to gather my courage and get back to doing what I love: Writing strange things.
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Mastering the Remaster: A Polish of Sins
Star Ocean The Second Story R is the best version of a flawed original. A masterpiece of remastering that doesn’t sand out anything in the original, even its very incomplete story.
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AVOutput in 2025
We are so back, y’all. Back with all new promises we totally intend to keep, but we will not apologize if we don’t. But we back.
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Ryan, Wade, Logan, and Hugh
Deadpool & Wolverine: A Love Letter Film Review
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The Beautiful and Exhausted
An extensive review of Final Fantasy XVI from a longtime fan… and hater.
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The One That Surprises You
How High We Go In The Dark was a deeply harrowing and well crafted novel


