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The end of 2016

12/31/201602/01/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Miscellaneous

2016 in review and it was definitely an eventful year and not for good reasons and I like many am looking forward to it ending because I’m ready to start a new year. The year definitely started on the wrong side of the bed when David Bowie passed away which was a total shock since his latest album ha had only come out 2 days before. As the year passed I remember reading “2016 is being rough and its only beginning” from various people but it really was true and it indeed was blow after blow but I did end up annoyed by the “F 2016” being posted every time something bad happened, I mean there is a cause and an effect and a lot of important things were dismissed by blaming a year instead of analyzing the issues which I’ll touch on here.

How long should Christmas last?

12/30/201601/06/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Miscellaneous

At what time do you put away your Christmas decorations? As I wondered when I was going to put away my Christmas tree this year but I just couldn’t decide. For a few years I was putting them away on the 26th since Christmas was over but then I listened to the 12 days of Christmas song and looked it up and indeed there are 12 days of Christmas and contrary to some calendars they actually begin on the 25th, they don’t end on the 25th which made sense so I tried to follow that the year after but things are a lot more complicated than that.

Christmas being the mess of a holiday since it’s a fusion of so many different things that it’s only normal for there not to be an exact answer and you’ll see answers that ranger from various days in January all the way to February 2nd for specific reasons and they all have some validity.

Super Mario & Nintendo history mobile tribute for phones

12/29/201601/06/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Video Classic

Nintendo has a mobile youtube channel for their mobile games and apps they’ve released and will be releasing, for the most part it’s only been trailers but int he last few weeks they released two very good tributes to their history, one about Nintendo in general and the other focusing on Mario.

They are very nice tributes and what makes them unique is they’re vertical videos, normally they’re not videos I prefer to watch but they were so fun I wouldn’t want them any other way. So take a look at these two great videos that Nintendo made and make sure to watch them on your tablet/phone/mobile device to see them the way they were intended to.

Miscrave Digital Culture Podcast Episode 101

12/28/201601/07/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Miscrave Media

The Digital Culture podcast returns with episode 101 where I talk a little about the show and where it’s going to go from now on. Expect it weekly with new episodes every Wednesday. Check it out.

Length ~ 4 minutes
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Star Wars “X-Wing” & “Dark Forces” better than Rogue One Secret Movie..

12/27/201601/06/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Secret Movie

The first Star Wars spin-off Rouge one may have has us a movie about getting the plans of the death star, but before Disney bought Lucasfilm this is something we had already known about, the status of these events are now uncertain but I’m sure there won’t be that many conflicts on them or at last none that can’t be explained away somehow. But it’s interesting to take a look at these early looks of how the events were explained and in “movie” form because these are the cutscenes / FMV of the games where these events took place so here we take a look at these two Star Wars “movies” you never saw.

Xmas miscrave Haul 2016

12/26/201601/06/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Miscellaneous

Christmas was yesterday and we all received presents, did you get any good ones?

In my case my present was more of a trip and other presents I got this year aren’t really “share” friendly and I don’t mean they aren’t appropriate but nothing really “interesting” to show online but quite useful and great in their own right. I actually turned down a few “fun” geeky things when some people asked me, maybe I’m growing up but let’s hope it’s not that and next year can be a little more “fun” to show.

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Remembering.. Nintendo 64 Sixty-FOOOOOOOOOOUR Kid

12/25/201601/06/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Video Classic

You wake up on Christmas to see what presents Santa Claus has brought you and he did it he brought you the thing you must wanted. That’s what Brandon and Rachel got when they received his Nintendo 64 on Christmas Day. It first became popular about ten years ago but it still captures that moment you felt as a kid getting something you really wanted which we’re going to see why.