That Horrible Pen

The following post does not contain spoilers. All of the images in this post are photos taken by me of the Nintendo Power Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles strategy guide and two preview books showing off upcoming Nintendo titles.             Video games were mysterious things for me when I was a kid. For the longest time, the only ones I had access to where PC titles—a mix of children’s adventure games (like Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon ), “edutainment” titles (think the Math Blaster series), and the occasional actual video game ported to the PC ( Sonic 3 & Knuckles , for example). I wasn’t raised steeped in video game culture like a lot of nerds my age, and my first actual console was a long time coming. I often owned strategy guides for games I didn’t actually have any means to play, I assume because they were technically “books” and I was a big reader, though I’m not sure my parents could really tell me now why they l...

This post contains spoilers for both the movie and series in the title. Also note that this piece contains some potentially NSFW description, especially in the back half.      “The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot.” Amazon , 2020, https://www.amazon.com/Man-Killed-Hitler-then-Bigfoot/dp/B07KZHV8JT/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+man+who+killed+hitler+and+then+the+bigfoot+dvd&qid=1596835126&s=movies-tv&sr=1-1                 If you were to guess that The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (2018) was a comedy based off of the title alone, you’d be about half wrong. I say “half wrong” instead of “half right” because the wrongness of the assertion outweighs the rightness in the sense that while The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot has elements of comedy in it—starting with but certainly not limited to the outrageously absurd, long title where the “the...