Pac-Man 256 is helping me understand Pac-Man

I’m normally one to steer well clear of iOS and mobile based games. I always jump to the worst possible conclusion about them, that they just exist to exploit people into giving them more money and time than they really should. It’s silly really considering it is a free game but I still avoid these types of games anyway out of habit. There has been one exception to this rule, and that was a game called Crossy Road.

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Sonic the Hedgehog hasn’t changed, we’ve changed

Sonic the Hedgehog means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. To some he is a punchline, an opportunity to laugh at those who still seem desperately cling to a ship in the midst of being sunk, repeatedly. To others he is a constant source of frustration, a tease who seems so close to redeeming himself only to make them feel the fool once again. Then there are those that see Sonic as a terrible game series, one that was never really as good as everyone seemed to think it was.

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Dragon Ball Super: Stick with the movies. For now.

There have been a series of shows that I may have, at one time or another, given a significant portion of my person to see come back and through sheer force of nostalgia, each of these shows has managed to return to me. Funny thing, hindsight tells me that I should be very thankful that I didn’t pay for them with one of my extremities.

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