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Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a collection of interconnected short stories set in a small Tokyo café where customers can travel back in time—with strict limitations. The premise is simple: sit in a specific chair, drink a cup of coffee, and you can visit any moment in the past. But you must return before the coffee gets cold, and nothing you do will change the present. It’s soft science fiction that prioritizes character and emotion over mechanics and explanation.

One of the strangest amnesia acts in recent gaming discourse is how quickly people have forgotten the global atmosphere of 2020. The George Floyd protests weren’t just an American event; they became a worldwide moral referendum, a moment when corporations, studios, and creative industries scrambled to demonstrate alignment with a forced cultural narrative. Ubisoft did this openly with Assassin's Creed Shadows while other studios did it more quietly.

Alex Kurtzman, who is not only the producer, but the showrunner for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, shared new details about the show’s villain Nus Braka played by Paul Giamatti. In an interview with TrekMovie, Kurtzman was asked about previous comments he made about Giamatti’s Nus Braka where he described him as a “tide that has swept across the world in a profound and upsetting way.” Alongside those comments, he told Entertainment Weekly, “I say this without taking a political stance.

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Leftists seemingly can’t help themselves in allying with the enemies of humanity when it comes to science fiction properties. The latest example? Star Trek.

Nia DaCosta, the director The Marvels, is the latest director to engage in some historical revisionism while reflecting on the film’s box office bomb back in 2023. In an interview with Deadline to promote her new film 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, DaCosta said, “When I look back on it, I’m just like everyone tried their best. Everyone was trying to make a great film. Everyone tried their best.” “And I will say, I’m really happy that I have those relationships,” she continued.

Janovich, one of the wargaming community’s most respected voices, delivered a comprehensive takedown of Trench Crusade in a recent video, detailing why he’s chosen to avoid the hyped miniatures game despite hundreds of viewer requests. The analysis exposes a Kickstarter plagued by broken miniatures, unfulfilled promises, and a development team that appears to have lost control of their $3 million project.

Stargate is coming back, and the writers involved are being very open and transparent with fans with every step along the way in a refreshing change from most secretive studios involving beloved IPs. Writer Joseph Mallozzi posted an update about the new show and what’s going on with the writers. In November 2025, Joseph Mallozzi confirmed rumors that Stargate would return to Amazon Prime Video with a new TV show, posting on X.

Jeremy Conrad, a Star Wars: The Last Jedi defender, made one of the most asinine comparisons about Luke Skywalker in order to defend Rian Johnson’s abomination. In a post to X, Conrad compared Luke Skywalker to Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, but described Yoda and Obi-Wan as “crazed hermits” after they failed and went into hiding. He then claims this is exactly what happened to Luke Skywalker.

Daniel Warren Johnson is one of the artistic talents hailed in the comic book industry as a rising star, working recently on Absolute Batman for DC Comics and Transformers for Image Comics, but his rise within the comic industry seems to be politically motivated, as he’s garnered attention for drawing multiple images of his characters murdering ICE agents.