Pokémon has had over 25 years of bringing joy to people around the world, and fear into the hearts of some parents from the nineties. With a quarter century of Ash, Red, and a horde of endless pikachus changing the world as we know it, the series bring the public…

Learning to do good by you for you isn’t easy — but it doesn’t have to feel impossible. — The modern age has brought an onslaught of tough existential questions to light that have revolutionized the human experience: questions like am I good enough?, have I worked hard enough?, or when will I feel accomplished in my own goals? Seeking external validation from your peers is completely normal and…

“I love my computer: all my friends are in there!” — In May of 2016, I was graced with the opportunity to meet one of my closest friends of the previous years in person for the first time. He and his father drove nine hours from their abode outside Toronto, Canada to my humble home in Massachusetts — and to this…

“Welcome to White Space. You’ve been living here for as long as you can remember…” — Congoers attending Anime Expo this past weekend may have been shocked to see on the 0:23 of every hour, an eerie sound would ring out both in and outside the convention walls… A…

How I learned to re-enjoy one of my favorite games — Last November, Nintendo released a limited-edition Pokémon Nintendo Switch Lite, featuring a black housing with silver and gold outlines of the legendary Pokémon for generation 4 [Diamond and Pearl]. Naturally, I rushed to pick one up as a personal gift and when the excitement of being a kid came rushing…

Every person born in the ever-changing category of ‘gen Z’ to ‘millennials’ has seen, remembers, or often become part of world-altering historical events. Even those who were barely forming memories by the turn of the millennium have their own version of the “before times”: before Harambe died, before Donald Trump…

With the Squishmallow craze of the last few years, I find myself surprised that the public hasn’t yet latched onto the newest and cutest addition to the plush shelf: PuffPals. In October of 2020, Lily and David began a Kickstarter campaign to create a series of fluffy friends known as…

The day is September 18th, 2018 and the grand collective of the internet has gone into an outrage. For the first time in the company’s history, Nintendo would follow behind their long-time competitors Playstation and Xbox in having a payment plan to access the console’s online features for games such…