All Points Bulletin: Taking Jacob’s Ladder Up to the Tree House

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hisui_icon_4040_round Alain’s picks:

  • Genesis 28:10-19
    All Geeks Considered attempts to climb Jacob’s Ladder.
  • Wowowowo, Gimme One Vision
    How video games helped one woman who was legally blind.
  • Try, Try, Try Again
    Simón Bolívar faces, even more, failures before he even becomes remotely successful in liberating South America.
  • Doctor Whom? 
    The story of how the BBC lost almost every episodes of Doctor Who. Even if you don’t care about the show it is a good lesson of how our relationship with archiving media has changed.
  • Flower, Sun, and Rain
    Extra Credits interviews the rather unusual game creator, Suda51.

 narutaki_icon_4040_round Kate’s picks:


hisui_icon_4040_round I almost forgot that Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection is probably coming on next year. And that the original show came out a decade ago:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: GTT (Great Teacher Taiga Fujimura)

This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

Top 12 Type-Moon Moments for 2016

hisui_icon_4040_round Welcome to my sixth year of doing retrospectives on coolest moments that came out of Type-Moon in all of its various iterations. I should mention up front that this is a personal list. These are the events, announcements, games, characters, items, and pieces of fandom that have made me happy this year from Type-Moon. It is not necessarily the best of Type-Moon but merely what reminded me why I love so much of what comes out of the company.

That means that if something is missing from this list it does not mean it was not important and/or cool. I am not an omniscient so there is a good chance lots of little pieces and even some major elements of the fandom may escape my notice. Also, I can’t read Japanese so that cuts me off from a lot of what is happening in Japan. It also means most of the Japanese fandom is a complete mystery. In the end, I just have my own tastes so what might be incredibly important to me might otherwise be trivial for you and vice versa.

Fate/Grand Order went from the 800-pound gorilla of the Type-Moon universe to the Galactus. Therefore I actually to make an effort to ensure this was not a list of 11 Fate/Grand Order items and then one item from anything else. While Fate/Grand Order is still a massive part of this list I tried to remember some highlights from the rest of the universe.

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