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Ugh. Can you believe Netflix? Lazy sons of diseased cows. Their NieR adaptation sucks. I don't even have to see it to know. They didn't even have enough faith in their work to put the NieR name on it! And casting Sandra Bullock as 2B?? You would think Hollywood would have learned its lesson after Scarlett Johansson played the Major. Gosh. I give them props for not just following the story of the game but making it a giant escort mission? I'm shaking my head, friends, shaking my head. I long for the day when video game movies are quality products that are taken seriously, but NieR: Birdbox is not that movie.

I hope you've enjoyed the songs from Elemental Master this week. There are certainly more good ones on there. Be sure to check out the soundtrack yourself!

Last summer and into the fall I took a deep dive into Sega Genesis music. Surely there is good Genesis music, despite the system's lousy audio reputation, right? I'm sure I only scratched the surface but the answer is definitely YES. My favorite, possibly, is the Elemental Master soundtrack, which I'll be sharing a track from each day this week. Enjoy!

Here we are, February first and I've got nothing special for Blog-a-Day. Oh well, I guess I'll give it a try anyway, against my better judgment. The response to my earlier blog was pretty encouraging. So here's BaD #1!

Hey, guys, I'm just curious who is thinking of doing Blog-a-Day next month. I had a blast with mine last year playing through that PSP Capcom collection but I've been so swamped this year that I haven't even thought about it. By this point in January I usually have at least a whole week's worth of blogs ready to go but I don't even have a theme. I'm not sure I'm going to participate this year and that makes me sad. But I remember that participation was pretty low last year as it was.

We've talked about novels and those books with visuals. Now there is just clean up. Early last year I read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, which tells the development stories for a bunch of games like Destiny, The Witcher 3, and Stardew Valley. I love stuff like this and the book did not disappoint. Definitely look it up if you're into the real world side of game development. Something I actually did blog about last year is Empires of EVE, a history of the first few years of EVE Online. I've never played that game and have no real desire to, but the history of what happened was still remarkedly compelling. The second volume is supposed to come out this May and I am excited to see what happened next.

We talked about the novels I read last year (in two parts!) and I did most of that reading at work. At home it's tough reading prose because I have small kids and when those kids go to bed I like to play video games. But comics and manga, for whatever reason, that I can do at home and I got through a good deal.