So PAX East has come and gone, and while there was a ton of awesome stuff I saw and played and sat it on, one of the biggest surprises was Capcom announcing their HD remake of Ducktales. People, I can not stress enough how huge of a Ducktales fan I am, even to this day. I have the cartoons on DVD. I have Scrooge figures, reprints of Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comics, the hardcover collections…
Read more →[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp8Qimzm-kQ?rel=0&w=560&h=315] This week an indie game launched on Xbox's Xbox Live Indie Games channel that I'd been waiting for since the reveal trailer was posted some time ago. A sim game where you get to run an arcade during the 1980s? Sounds awesome! I've put a couple hours into the game at this point and can say that while it can be fun, it also has some issues that keep it from being great. First…
Read more →I was really excited to recently be able to buy some new additions to the library's manga collection. To date, most of our manga has been collected from donations, and as such there are very few complete series. However, space is extremely limited in my teen section, and as such I can't actually put all the new manga I've aquired on the shelf! (I've got a temporary fix by placing the new stuff in a…
Read more →So I realize in my last post I said I wanted to get back to making videos with some sort of regularity. I HAVE recorded some videos, but unfortunately I didn't think anything was very good, so I never finished them. Hopefully inspiration will strike soon.
Read more →So I decided now that things have settled down a bit, I wanted to get back to making videos with some kind of regularity. While I still have a scripted, longer form Let's Go Retro! episode half-done sitting on my computer, I wanted to try something a bit different and immediate. I tried this once before and the results weren't very good, and in fact I left the remains of the result to sit on…
Read more →Since I stepped into the role of Teen Librarian at the Sellers Library, I've had to continue many clubs and activities that were already regular occurrence here. Of course, since it's stuff like book clubs, anime clubs and gaming clubs, I've no complaints. These are things I would try to do anyway after all! But of course "running an anime club" was not part of my library school training, so I've tried to search around…
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