In past years I’ve written about working in retail during the holiday season, from the perspective of both an employee at big box retailers as well as one in a one-off game store. Honestly, I always want to write more about retail, but never seem to make time for it. Now, however, is as good …
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So Much To Write, So Little Time
I feel like I write these kinds of entries far more often than I should, but then again I feel like there’s always something new coming up throwing a wrench into the works. I’ll keep this one brief — I’ve got a nice little list of topics I’ve wanted to cover recently (consider it the …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 72: Transformers – Episode Review
In this Angry Video Game Nerd episode James takes a look at a couple of games in the Transformers franchise, one for the Commodore 64 and one for the Nintendo Famicom. Opening up, the Nerd poses the question of what format you usually play games on. For the most part, in the case of the …
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Memphis Weather Sucks
Fall begins here in the Northern Hemisphere on September 23rd. When you think of fall, you think of cool winds coming from the north, leaves falling off trees, Halloween and maybe Thanksgiving, jackets, and not having to run the AC all damn day. At least, that’s the way television and such have portrayed it for …
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Adding Images To AVGN Articles – The Final Update
It took quite a few hours of downloading, image selecting, editing, uploading, and article refinement to make it happen, but it’s actually complete — every single Angry Video Game Nerd episode review here on Xadara has at least one image associated with it! I’d estimate it took about 5 hours of solid work to make …
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What I Learned From A Few Weeks Away From Facebook
A couple of weeks ago I made a decision to take a break from Facebook and just see what would happen. I’ve been a user of the social media site since about 2009 and for as useful as it’s been it’s also been quite an annoyance in my digital life — more so in recent …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 71: Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Episode Review
Naturally, you can’t have a review of games based on the film The Terminator without covering games made based on its sequel – “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”, and James wasted no time after the previous episode releasing this one to cover games based in the amazing 1992 sequel to the 1984 classic. The episode opens …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 70: The Terminator – Episode Review
The Terminator franchise, at least, at the time of the early 90’s, was pretty amazing. With “The Terminator” in 1984 and “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” in 1992, the struggle for humanities survival from an apocalypse of its own creation was well established in popular consciousness and with the rise in popularity of game consoles, it …
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YouTube Changed Their API. Again. This Broke Video Downloads. Again.
I really don’t much like YouTube anymore. I haven’t for years now, but it, like Google, is one of those necessary evils in the digital life of most everyone. I’ll fully admit it’s where a majority of the video content I watch originates, but that’s simply because everyone puts their content there, and I watch …
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The Kurisu Yamato Sabbatical | What I’ve Been Up To The Past Few Weeks
When I said at the beginning of the month that September was going to be a “when I feel like it” month for publishing content, I wasn’t kidding — I’ve written almost nothing the past week and a half, but for good reason. As mentioned in a previous update, I’ve been taking a break from …
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Adding Episode Images to AVGN Articles – Progress Update 2
Last month a began a process to update all of my previous Angry Video Game Nerd episode reviews to have images from the episode being reviewed. This was something I neglected when starting the project and in retrospect wish I had done from the beginning. In any case, the last batch of episodes I did …
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What’s Coming For September 2019 On Xadara
At the end of every month I like to set up a “goals list” for the next month on this website in the form of these “What’s coming” articles. Each month I make some progress but never really “complete” these goals. This month is going to be different, as I’m not going to set any …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 69: X-Men – Episode Review
Ah, the X-Men; an incredibly well loved superhero franchise originating in the 60’s which experienced somewhat of a revival of popular interest in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Growing up I was quite familiar with the franchise, at least in the state it was presented at that time, and recall quite a few games …
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September 2019 Xbox Live Games With Gold
August seems to have been generally regarded as a pretty good month in the realm of the Xbox Live Games With Gold program, so naturally a gamer has to ask: what does September hold for us? Let’s take a look! Alright, starting off for the Xbox One we have Hitman: The Complete First Season and …
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The Only Reaction Image I Will Ever Really Need
I was watching an old episode of Oddity Archive the other day and while it was based on a rather grim topic (nuclear disaster preparedness in the UK) an image was shown in the episode for a brief moment. It’s a rather funny image that I think speaks for itself – two men are carrying …
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