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Boggy's Game Grid: Favorites, Overhated, and Overrated
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I watched this video from Ross at Retro Game Corps, and he linked this grid. I opened up two copies and went back and forth with my girlfriend as we told stories about each of these games. The beautiful stress of having two or three excellent picks and having one prevail, and of course the stories that these games have brought us. I love this this list in particular because you get to vent a bit too, with the overrated, overrated, and underrated categories.
…Media Noms: Week 18 2026
April 27th - May 2nd 2026
Oh, She's Bookish: Cyberpunk 2077 NO_COINCIDENCE
Cyberpunk 2077 NO_COINCIDENCE, Book Cover Image
This may be the worst book I have ever read.
Sure, there are likely books poorly written that I dropped, but I read all 400+ pages of this trash fire. I surmise there are two reasons why I stuck it out and turned this into a proper hate read. First, I love Cyberpunk, as a genre and the world of Mike Pond. The anime genuinely affected me and Neuromancer was one of the first sci-fi novels I read. I can’t describe how painful it is to see a genre you love - which, let’s be honest, is so rarely done justice as a genre - be so thoroughly trashed. And trashed in earnest! Second, I can’t believe this novel has gone through five printings. It is such a failure of not only the writer, but more so (imo) the publisher and editing team. I would be embarrassed as a publisher to release this to market. The lack of craft, the haphazard writing style, and borderline knock-off plot should be seen as a liability to the publisher’s brand. In an age where becoming a writer has never been more difficult, it deeply pisses me off to see such a poorly written novel reach the shelves when novice writers with passion for this world could easily have superseded what I purchased at full price. I understand that we must use superlatives on the backs of our novels because everyone is doing it, and subsequently is a NYT best-selling author, but how hard they hype up Kosik feels like a rogue marketing department. How painfully poor this text is makes the whole back-flap feel like satire. Truly, the greatest irony of this text is that it acts as an analogue to a shitty capitalistic system that will sell you crap in a nice coat of pain - this is truly the only Cyberpunk think about this novel.
…Boggy's Jams: The April '26 Playlist
Movie Review: Perfect Blue
I walked into the movie theater like an unsuspecting fool. I had heard of Satoshi Kon, as any big anime fan has, and I was hyped to finally see one of his films. I, alas, had been completely misdirected as to Japanese anime auture by Miyazaki because what I would witness in Perfect Blue was Fight Club meets Shutter Island.
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