T w e n t y S i d e d
I guess Otaku thinks he can just go around inventing new words. That’s fine, I guess, but… otakusphere?
Otakusphere?!?!
The sad thing is I know I won’t be able to resist using it. It’s going to leap out in conversation sometime soon. And I know I’ll get strange looks when it does.
Crash Dot Com
Back in 1999, I rode the dot-com bubble. Got rich. Worked hard. Went crazy. Turned poor. It was fun.
This is Why We Can’t Have Short Criticism
Here's how this site grew from short essays to novel-length quasi-analytical retrospectives.
D&D Campaign
WAY back in 2005, I wrote about a D&D campaign I was running. The campaign is still there, in the bottom-most strata of the archives.
The Biggest Game Ever
How did this niche racing game make a gameworld so massive, and why is that a big deal?
A Star is Born
Remember the superhero MMO from 2009? Neither does anyone else. It was dumb. So dumb I was compelled to write this.
I win!
btw – presently otakusphere is a Google Slice – a search term that returns exactly one hit. Not for long, though :)
google slicing is harder than it looks…
Man the site is really going down hill quickly. My head is bowed in shame.
Heh. Just used “otakusphere” in an e-mail… we may have to arraign Fledgling Otaku for war crimes if it catches on.
Of course, I was writing about the popularity of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya when I wrote it…