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Beatricebaker.com - URL Changing! (And Life Rambles)

Change your bookmarks for this site to http://beatricebaker.com please! Sometime in the next month, the current Quinlan Circle sites will all go down. They’re not disappearing, necessarily; all sites are backed up and on a new server. But, there is a high likelihood that many of them will disappear. I’ve been prepping a lot of new blog posts recently, but I haven’t posted any of them because of…

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5th Anniversary of Coming to Japan

I came to Japan 5 years ago, and a lot’s happened since then. Almost four years in snowy Aomori, half a year in sunny Shizuoka, and almost a year in variable weather Kyoto… I’ve lived in four and a half houses, worked in about 15 different schools, gotten big into and slowly out of debt two separate times, and met a lot of mostly wonderful people from all sorts of backgrounds. So many firsts in…

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Civ Is Too Long

It’s taboo to say these feared words, but I’ll admit that Civ is too long. Sometimes way too long. And unless you drastically alter your playstyle or use certain mods, it’s very difficult to get it shorter. A few weeks ago, I was really getting into the Tides of History podcast’s overview of the ancient world, and somehow that got me playing Civ VI one weekend night. If you know me, you know I…

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Link Scoop 003: True Love

I’ve found true love, and its name is… Link Scoop. Welcome to another addition of this blog series where I share with you the things I’ve been seeing on this here wide world of web. Considering I spend a majority of my waking hours interfacing with the internet on various backlit screens, I guess you can call that true love. Or true addiction. Anyway, you’re probably the same way, which is why…

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Do It Yourself Anime American Character Annoys Me

It’s a pretty nice anime, but the Do It Yourself anime American character really annoys me in a few ways. This Fall 2022 anime came and went without a ton of fanfare, but it’s one of the very few original series that release each year. Not based on a book, manga, game, toy line, or anything else, just a straight-up story. It’s a clear Yuru Camp cash-in, trying to get a crossover audience with…

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Switch 2 Ideas

I’ve got some Switch 2 ideas for you. Based on everyone else’s speculation, based on existing patents, based on the mood of the gaming world, I’m giving my idealized Nintendo Switch successor system. These aren’t predictions, per se. It’s my idealized-but-realistic version of Switch 2 ideas. Not going full-on dreamer here–there ain’t gonna be an official FPGA modular Nintendo console with a Wii…

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Link Scoop 002: Scoop Harder

Let’s scoop harder with the new Link Scoop! I’ll provide you with all the stories from around the internet I’ve been discovering, and some fun bonus stuff here and there too. Cool stuff from this series of tubes we call home. So let’s scoop harder right into today’s links. Jet Force Gemini’s coming to Switch Online! In my massive Rareware Alternate History storyline, Jet Force Gemini played a…

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Movie Studio Market Share 1995-2023: Trends I've Noticed

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Link Scoop 001: Let's Go

Welcome to Link Scoop, my brand-new… blog series? Newsletter? Whatever this is. Basically, the idea is simple. I give you some links–scoop up, as you might say–from across the internet. It WON’T be timely news-oriented stuff… usually. A mix of longer reads, videos, weird stuff, and whatever piques my interest. Hopefully it’ll pique yours too (then you can subscribe to my blog). Let’s begin the…

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Note Taking Workflow Experiments - Phase One

I’ve been struggling with note taking workflow and my creative output for years. I’ve never found the right balance. Maybe soon I will. This is based on my 11/14/2023 Life Rambles post. I started rambling on there, then it got so long I spun it off into its own note taking workflow article! These are, basically, the segments of my note taking workflow: Life reminders, important info retrieval,…

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Life Rambles - 11/14/2023

Here’s my Life Rambles post for 11/14/2023, where I talk about various topics in my daily and creative life. For 11/14/2023, that is. As you know from my last post, I’m still trying to figure out what this thing might actually end up being. I’ve been emotionally kind of down the last couple days. In a real self-pity mood, which is the worst kind of mood for me to act irrationally. So I’m just…

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What if Nintendo Bought Rare in 2002? - An Alternate History

I’ve always wondered, what if Nintendo bought Rare in the Gamecube era? What would Nintendo’s dire Gamecube release been like? What would Nintendo be like today? That’s what I’m gonna write about today, in the form of an alternate history document. We can pretend some other universe had all this happen, and imagine the fallout side effects. Good and bad both. But of course, as an alternate…

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Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick Ruined My Childhood

I wrote a review of Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick on Letterboxd and decided it was too nice for just that site. I’m reposting it here! I remember seeing an ad for Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick in a magazine. If you knew ten-year-old me, this was an extremely very big deal. Star Wars Episode 3 was about to come out and I was absolutely ravenous for any piece of media connected to…

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Lamenting 20th Century Fox Adult Blockbusters

They promised it wouldn’t happen like this, but it happened, and the world lost most 20th Century Fox adult blockbusters. It’s particularly disheartening when The Creator has just released under 20th Century Studios. It’s not doing very well at the box office… Not a disaster or anything, but it’s going to struggle to hit $150 million. Everyone complains about the lack of original movies made for…

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Life Rambles: October 25th, 2023

I’m experimenting with more general blogging, so here’s my first Life Rambles post. So here’s some short various rambles not long enough for a post of their own. Blog Structure Oh, first off, a meta-point about this very Life Rambles idea. As I said last week, I feel in flux about the current internet social networking age. But I’m still interested in writing stuff that’s more casual and not…

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Microblogging vs. Normal Blogging

That’s right, I’m about to do a spiel on microblogging vs. normal blogging. (This article inspired me to write this.) First off, fuck Twitter, it sucks and it probably ruined more lives than any other social media platform in history. (Ruined lives in a metaphorical sense. Facebook ruined in a much more literal sense with actual civil wars.) But the appeal of microblogging is really there,…

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Watch Strap Broke

Well, I never expected it, but my watch strap broke this morning and changed up the rest of my day. I’ve only had my Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 for two years. The little plastic bits holding the metal connecty part were wearing out, and I knew it was a matter of time before I needed a new strap. And yet, I never thought to actually buy a replacement ahead of time. So when my watch strap broke this…