Review: My Undead Yokai Girlfriend (2024, Prime)

I’d been doing a little reading on East Asian cultures recently, and what do you know? Amazon Prime just debuted this eight-episode Japanese series, which fit the bill neatly. I’ll try to avoid spoilers in my review, because I want you to dive right in and watch this. It’s a lot of fun. First, let’s …

Part Fifty-Nine: 2023, It’s Not You, It’s Me. A Historical Overview of Role-playing from the Trenches

As I mentioned in a prior post, 2023 wasn’t a particularly great year for me. Turns out it wasn’t a particularly great year for a lot of people, but more on that later. Significantly, it wound up the fifth decade since the launch of D&D back in 1974. Fifty years of role-playing. I’ll take a …