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I'm Josh "unangbangkay" Tolentino, and this is my cry for attention.

I'm also the News EditorJapanator. Come visit, and see me gush about things not directly related to video games. Or not. But hey, diversifying your interest in me is definitely something I would encourage.

As a bit of shameless self-promotion, I also write about games for the California Literary Review.

Here's a personal blog-thing that I write in when I remember to: Death By Eroge!

Below are some of my pre-staff C-blog works. Consider them an origin story of sorts, as proof that you too may one day "go grayscale"!

-Resident Evil 5 isn't racist, just ignorant and unambitious
- Dude, be cool! Don't hate on Final Fantasy so much!
-Don't Blame the Genre, Blame the Game: Why JRPGs Don't Intrinsically Suck
-Thoughts on The Escapist's Piracy Issue
-Sorry Doomsayers, Japan Isn't In (much) Development Danger.
-Can Critics Be Trusted When They Don't Trust Themselves?
-The Colorless Mask: Insult or Insight?
-Your Fate is in the Cards: "The Fool's Journey" in Persona 3
-Persona 3: The Rest of The Fool's Journey
-Thoughts on Piracy: Why My Eyelid is Twitching
-Persona should be called "Pimp-sona" and its heroes are enviable pimptastic jerks
-Truth and Reconciliation: Why Persona 4's ending is super awesome
-You wanna buy some goddamn eroge. DO IT DO IT DO IT

Promoted Musings:

-Playing With Others: Playing Alone, Together
-A Time to Destroy: To Hell With Your Rules, I'm Cheating
-Feel the Hatred: The Quick Time Event
-The Start of the Affair: My Own Mute, My Own Heartstrings
-Good Idea, Bad Idea: Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment
-For Those About To Die: A Letter To The Combine Overwatch
-Other Worlds than These: I Left My Heart in Inaba
-Untapped Potential: Talk to us dirty, Mr. Developer
-The Forgotten: A Storm of Romance Under the Banner of Love

Reviews:

-Overlord 2
-Red Faction: Guerrilla
-inFAMOUS
-Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2
-Demon's Souls
-Valkyria Chronicles
-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
-Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon
-Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
-Multiwinia
-Crysis Warhead
-The Experiment


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Destructoid Is The Best Place To Try To Not Suck, And I Wish It A Happy Birthday!
Josh Tolentino | 10:29 PM on 03.16.2009 4 comments


Seriously. Seeing Destructoid's (and Niero's) birthday, the first one I've celebrated as a member of the community, brings up some fond, relatively recent memories.



I started this C-blog just about a year ago because the "game review social network" that I was being paid to write for was going under, and I'd need a place to copy-paste the stuff I'd written. Thankfully, life took a turn and I was spared the absolute failure that using the amazing C-blogs as a text dump would bring.

Instead, I decided to write about how fapping to Harvest Moon characters didn't feel wrong anymore due to Rune Factory's updated character designs.

Destructoid's a site that really treasures its community. You don't find a lot of those in the gaming media, and even less with communities worth treasuring. I might have a separate portfolio blog now (for the stuff I think might help with getting a job), but this C-blog is my home in this series of tubes.

Happy Birthday, Destructoid, and many thanks to Niero, for knocking up the internet and spewing out this gem of a site!


Edit: I wonder when that issue with the image scaling will get fixed...



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TheCleaningGuy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2009 23:10
TheCleaningGuy
I concur!
Also, if that image is Rune Factory fan art, I might have to pick up a copy...
Don't look at me like that!
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2009 23:37
Puppy Licks
I haven't played harvest moon, but I do fap. So you get my approval.
garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2009 23:41
garison
I don't think there is one person on Destructoid who doesn't fap to some sort of videogame. Don't feel bad, Unangbangkay.
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/17/2009 11:21
Naim Master
I fap to Cho Aniki , don't feel bad ungangbankay ...
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