The Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger

Thez’s Note: This was originally written over a month ago, when Akibaranger finished. I didn’t feel like it was ready at the time, and have now rewritten a lot of it. Enjoy!

Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger has finished, the officially unofficial parody of Japanese Power Rangers and otaku culture that has had many people, including myself, losing their shit on a weekly basis.

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The All New CurrentGenCast – 3rd June 2012

Like a bus, you wait forever for posts on CurrentGen, and two come at once.

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The fallacy of “Micro$oft”

One of the things I noticed after my transition from being “sort-of Games press” to “real Tech journo” [sic], is that I didn’t escape commenters using the term “M$”. In the past I have chided gaming fanboys from the Sony and Nintendo camp for using the term, but now as I write about Linux and the culture that surrounds it, I hesitate to call people out on it.

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