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Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Review: Blast from the Past

January 7, 2015 Eliot Cowley, Nerd Culture Blogger Comments 0 Comment

Though they’re now looked back on as the oddball, waterlogged entries of the Pokemon series, Ruby & Sapphire are still my favorite Pokemon games. They hold a special, nostalgic place in my heart, so I had high hopes for the remakes, Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire for Nintendo 3DS. The new games do the originals justice for the most part—Game Freak has yet to make a bad Pokemon game. However, there are still a few gripes that I have with…

Pokemon X/Y Review

September 3, 2014 Eliot Cowley, Nerd Culture Blogger Comments 0 Comment

Hi there! My name’s Eliot Cowley, and this is my first post for the Main Circle’s Nerd Culture column. A bit of background about me: I’m a senior, and I spent last year studying at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Needless to say, I love Japanese culture and the nerdiness that comes with it. I’m a computer science and Japanese double major, and hope to somehow use those majors to score a job in the video game industry. But enough…

A Simpler Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2013 Natalie Dicenzo, Pop Culture Blogger Comments 0 Comment

Since I knew this post would fall on Valentine’s Day, I naturally had two options: I could either acknowledge the holiday or not. Considering that I’ve already mentioned the dreaded V-Day within the first sentence, I bet you can guess where this post is going. It’s pretty easy to take the position of, “Valentine’s Day is nothing more than a commercialized holiday designed to rake in profit for greeting card companies,” or, “I don’t need one specific day to tell people that I love them,” or even, “All this holiday does is remind…

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