Welcome to the first ever installment of the Great British Baking Show Power Rankings! I know what you're thinking: “Rob, why are you examining the gentlest, calmest, and most altogether pleasant cooking competition show through the ham fisted lens of the Power Ranking format, traditional purview of hot take artisans and the functionally insane?” I'm … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Cake Week

-I've moved onto Nightmare mode in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, and while it looked for a hot second as though I would be forced to eat each and every word about how the game was too easy for my liking, I managed to hit a groove with it. Nightmare mode is harder, naturally – … Continue reading Grab Bag 10,000

As those of you who follow the NFL are surely aware of by now, Colts quarterback Andrew Luck up and announced his retirement last night. Guys retire from the NFL all the time, of course, but quarterbacks of Luck's stature only do so if they're old and washed up. Luck was neither. He was injured, … Continue reading Some Quick Thoughts on Andrew Luck

The neat thing about Mega Man 2 is that it has a couple of difficulty settings. Normal mode is pretty dang easy for a Mega Man game, while Difficult mode is the proper challenge. If this is your first time playing through this masterpiece, I highly encourage you to play on Normal mode, then move … Continue reading Mega Man 2 Boss Order and Notes

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of my all-time favorite video games, and yet it has always bummed me out that it's release signaled the end of the traditional Castlevania series. Since the release of SotN in 1997, all games with the Castlevania appellation have followed in its footsteps as a Super Metroid-style adventure … Continue reading Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon – First Impressions

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Undisputed Era vs. Street Profits (c) – Tag Team Championship Match So here I was, chillin' on the sofa on Sunday morning, trying to watch my rasslin' when all of a sudden I notice the audio is like, 3 full seconds behind what's happening on screen. So I quit the app, restart it, then reconnect … Continue reading NXT Takeover Toronto 2019

Friends! Tomato season is, depending on your location, either starting up in earnest or imminent, and there is no finer method of using fresh tomatoes than Holy fuck, two mass shootings in one day!?!?!?!? What the fuck is happening? using them to make BLTs. Few sandwiches are less understood than the BLT – they are … Continue reading A Note on BLTs

Before I begin, please note that as it turns out, my advice article on Mega Man III is littered with inaccuracies. Many of these are minor; forgetting the correct names of certain special weapons (it's Atomic Fire, not Atomic Heat), failing to list secondary weapon weaknesses (Magnet Man is also weak against Shadow Blade, to … Continue reading A Modest Theory of Hard Video Games