Rule 5 Warships – USS Guam
Meet USS Guam, the Azur Lane sensation! In the real world, she’s a cruiser killer with a 22-mile gun range. But in 2023, she’s just a bunny girl in a battleship. Cheers to an unexpected career change! Happy New Year!
Aaron
2023 Year in Review
As the year wraps up, my attempt to break a 4:15:00 marathon time fell short – blame it on my race plan amnesia. Thanks, Biden economy, for derailing my $15,000 debt payoff goal. On the bright side, I aced the reading challenge by a slim margin and completed more video games than planned. Cheers to 2024 – less job loss, more wins!
Rule 5 Warships – HMS Neptune
Behold the ghost of HMS Neptune! An unrealized dream of Britain’s WWII efforts, she now sails the virtual seas in Azur Lane as a bossy, trident-wielding maid. Her blueprint suggests a monstrous artillery, but alas, post-war austerity sank her.
Smacking Down Boring
In 2023, this duo found unexpected joy in WWE wrestling, thanks to Netflix’s ‘The Main Event’. Their fascination, and WWE’s uncanny draw, includes resolving conflicts with acrobatic violence, equal opportunity eye candy, and delivering consistent audience-geared entertainment, three times a week.
Rule 5 Warships – Exeter
Let’s raise a glass for HMS Exeter, the final and overlooked York-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. Sporting seaplanes and a battery of guns, this grand dame battled German raiders in WWII, survived monumental damage, and made waves in Azur Lane as a nobly behaved second-born.
Book Review – The Romanov Rescue
Aaron finally managed to read “The Romanov Rescue,” an alternate history book about a rescue mission in 1918 Russia. His journey was peppered with historic evils, logistical insights, and a dire craving for a sequel. ‘Twas a wild ride, indeed!
Rule 5 Warships – Friedrich der Große
Meet Friedrich der Große – a blueprint battleship of the Iron Blood faction that never made it beyond the planning stage in the real world. In Azur Lane, she’s an ultra-rare research ship with mommy vibes, jealousy issues, and just a wee bit too much adult fanart.
Poetry, Game Theory, and Critical Thinking
Is a lack of intuitive thinking and the ability to understand metaphor just another symptom of no longer teaching literature? How does that meet up with a meta Game Theory about FNAF???
Rule 5 Warships – Fubuki (Senran Kagura Crossover)
In the latest episode of ‘The Ninja Scrolls: Azur Flash’, Fubuki, a pale, aloof character secretly longing for friendship, serves as the physical plot device. Antagonist-turned-supporting-ally, she’s kidnapped for her bizarre, cross-dimensional ninja powers, triggering a frantic rescue mission by her fellow Senran Kagura and Azur Lane girls.
Retro Gaming – Wing Commander Academy
Having conquered Wing Commander II, our narrator is shimmying off to Origin’s kooky chapters in the universe, but not Wing Commander III. They’re starting with Wing Commander Academy: more pricy mission builder than game, crowned with a zippy super-fighter, endless waves of ennui, and a collaborative mission builder – That ’90s Internet Style. Our hero is eager to boot up Wing Commander Privateer next.