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Outside of my okonomiyaki I haven’t been making much new stuff lately; work has taken over, so it’s simple pastas and vegetables most nights. But I’ll be darned if I didn’t make this totally innocuous omelette look like you could charge $15 for it. Not pictured: A big baked Japanese sweet...

Honestly, the first that came to mind was... SOULS... COME UNTO ME!

A few come to mind where I can just boot them up and just kill time; for when I want to play video games but not play a video game, if that makes sense. Where the medium itself is the fun. Breath of the Wild—of course!—and Smash Ultimate. Before that I’d mess around in Smash on 3DS for a bout...

Yeah but we could just say “Fallen Order” for every “worst” category question and save ourselves the discussion. (Kidding.) ... (But also I hated that game.)

There are favorites of mine for character and world design (Yoji Shinkawa's sci-fi military designs; pretty much all of the Metroid games), overall style (cel-shading in Killer7 or Okami's painterly look, or the high contrast in MadWorld), etc, but I can think of two times where I was blown away...

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Actually, loathe as I am to admit it, I agree. Sunshine is a nostalgic favorite of mine, and the soundtrack is outta this world good (also I feel incredibly seen when Mario wears an aloha shirt), but overall it's a little ho-hum. FLUDD as a character, fun, but as a mechanic a bit of a mixed...

As a lifelong console gamer... I might invest in a PC. It’s sort of looking practically at what I play: Old stuff (easy to emulate with a half-decent setup), indies (aka: all on PC), and Nintendo’s output, which is where my Switch and 3DS (ha!) come in. I of course love love love Marvel’s...

Yeah I think it just makes sense that the developers who are looking to try something different with the medium have an eye for aesthetics, so you get this very-distinct, often-beautiful games. I'd add Deadly Premonition to the list of arthouse games that don't particularly overwhelm you...

Interesting, see I would think marinating it in anything would undo any attempts to drain it, but I guess you sort of drain—>marinate—>drain again..? It’s a great book! Made the masala again just now with leftover ingredients. Keep my friends fed haha.

I had this incredible tofu claypot meal at a Vietnamese restaurant a few years ago and I've been chasing that ever since haha. Can't say I've tried too often, but my home-cooked attempts at making something where the tofu holds some flavor (or even a good shape...) have been mostly failures...

See I think No More Heroes toes the line, because it's a parody,--in a lot of ways--of action games and anime, but also an amalgamation of mechanics and styles (minigames, side activities, etc). But it's ultimately true to its genre of being an action game. Same for Suda's esoteric Silver Case...

Literally just typing up some trash this morning about Killer7, which I'm replaying and revisiting for its 15th anniversary, and I think that may be my answer... If arthouse is to distinguish something as trying to transcend its medium (commercial medium; you don't have "arthouse" watercolors...

Yeah as someone who eats primarily vegetarian Indian food was a total revelation for me and has been a staple for as long as I started eating better. And really just such a plethora of flavors. My only "struggle" with it is trying to pack in protein without bastardizing recipes; I love chickpeas...

Oh man, I finally made this baingan matar masala. My first foray into cooking Indian food (top three cuisines, though I’m mostly ignorant of regional distinctions...) from scratch... And it was real good!

It’s funny, I do love Zelda but have a disinterest (almost dislike) towards the dungeons, arguably the draw for a lot of people. I don’t much care for that sort of puzzling. What I do love about Zelda is the atmosphere and world, the characters and creatures. That in mind, Majora’s Mask is one...

Riff I still have that cacio e pepe recipe you talked about awhile ago. I’m not always a big cheese guy, but I think I’m going to give it a try for my family soon...

The ratatouille. S’okay. I love vegetables, but this didn’t amount to too much; just a lot of diced tomato and eggplant underneath. Garlic and olive oil, of course, but the seasoning that’s on top of the squash there (thyme, basil, etc) should’ve been mixed into the “stew” underneath. Like 20...

I’m here to confess... I just bought a Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for DS and have no intention of starting it soon... Growing the backlog. It was a good price for a game I know I’ll be playing (going through all of Castlevania)... but I already feel guilty! Otherwise the quarantine started...

You guys are going to get so tired of my food pictures on here it ain’t even funny. Didn’t feel like eating yesterday... Had plans to make this really good-sounding hot & sour soup; maybe Monday. So I made a pretty omelette.