The Muppet Christmas Carol and craving the familiar around Christmas time

I’ve made no bones on this site about the fact that I’m not an especially nostalgic person. I am generally much more driven to pursue something new as opposed to falling into something familiar. I despair at the mount of people I talk to on dating apps lately who seem to want to rewatch Friends over and over again.

However, there is one big exception to this personal mantra, and that comes at Christmas time.

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Ranking the Pokémon Generations from worst to best

Based on a comment I made in my post berating Pokémon Platinum not so recently, I couldn’t get thought out of my head of actually ranking and talking about each of the Pokémon generations as a whole and ranking them due to my own personal taste and nostalgia. It might seem a bit clickbaity, but I don’t care, I really do get a kick out of writing these kinds of posts when it comes to Pokémon.

And when I get the bug to dip back into the franchise again after taking a break, it’s difficult to keep pretty much anything else out of my brain.

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Streets of Rage 4 is everything you want from a nostalgic throwback

As much as I like to boast that I’m not a nostalgic person, there have been a string of video games coming out this year that seem to evoke a very specific era of my childhood. And while I’m not going to fall over myself to to sing the praises of one of the bigger games I played growing up, I’m still kind of in awe of the fact that we got another Streets of Rage game after over 25 years.

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