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In Honor of Boog Boog: The first casualty of my Nuzlocke Run

A few weeks ago, I started a Nuzlocke Challenge run of Pokémon Gold over on my Twitch channel, inspired by Daniel K’s Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke Challenge. For the unfamiliar, the Nuzlocke Challenge is a self-imposed rule set to make Pokémon games harder, with three main rules: In a normal Pokémon playthrough, when a member of…
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Terrace House is so sweet and earnest and awesome and you should be watching it right now.

We finished up part three of Terrace House: Opening New Doors on Netflix recently, and it’s fantastic! If you haven’t watched Terrace House before, the premise is that three boys and three girls all move into a house together, where nothing has been provided for them except for, well the house, some beautiful cars, and…
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Friends don’t get friends bumper stickers as gifts.

FADE IN INT, PIZZA PLACE Bill, a 32 year old man, is celebrating his birthday with his partner and his friends. One of them, Jerry, grins a manic smile, and pushes a small, flatish box towards Bill. JERRY: Happy Birthday, Bill, I’m so excited for you to see what I got you. JERRY does not…
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The ABCs of Overcooked (and real cooking)

While we were camping last weekend, my wife and I wanted something to play on the Switch that was a little more goal driven than Mario Kart and easier to play in tabletop mode than Hyrule Warriors. We settled on Overcooked, a game we had only played a few levels of before on the PS4,…
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Kayaking is great (without boat stunts)

One of our favorite things to do in the summer is to get out on the water in either kayaks or on paddle boards. Normally this means a lazy float down a river (often with some inflatable rafts along for the ride), but today we decided we’d rather go out to a lake instead. We…
