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Hayao Miyazaki’s Lost Magic of Parenthood
How the legendary Studio Ghibli filmmaker explores the intersections of childhood, parenthood, and magic in his most famous films.
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The Penelope Qingdom
What would you do if you found out your neighbour had a kingdom of living toys in their basement?
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Astrolabe 33: Everything New is Old Again
On skateboarding as a 39 year old, video games of the year, and evolution
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Astrolabe 33: Everything New is Old Again
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Astrolabe 32: Meet the women who defined the sound of a generation
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I wrote some things!
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Astrolabe 28: That's why they call it a union.
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Astrolabe 9: The Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom, fan sequels, and dat streaming life
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Creators of Into the Breach and Dead Cells discuss the ethos of difficulty
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Announcement! Fight, Magic, Items is going global!
Publisher Yatakhayloon announces Saudi Arabian edition of my book on the history of Japanese RPGs
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Astrolabe 32: Meet the women who defined the sound of a generation
A look back at the revolutionary video game soundtracks of the 90s, a couple of personal histories, and the souls of demons
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Astrolabe 31: Robot Sheep
Bookshops, bonedust, and the perils of AI
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It's the spring Fight, Magic, Items promo round-up!
Axe of the Blood God, Still Loading, JRPG localization in the '90s, and more
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Astrolabe 30: How to support your favourite authors without breaking the bank
Books, ducks, gods, and localization
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I wrote a thing: "How the greatest Japanese RPGs of the ‘90s came to the West"
My debut at Washington Post explores the groundbreaking localization work of Richard Honeywood and Alexander O. Smith
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