Jacen's Rants
Please Stop Using Cloudflare
November 18, 2025
With the recent Cloudflare outage resolved, I suspect most websites are going to go back to normal, not thinking anything of it until the next time things go sideways. Still, I'm here to make a plea: please consider not using Cloudflare.
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Is Railgun Still My Favorite Anime? - Railgun Rewatch Reaction Part 1
November 15, 2025
Beware of "A Certain Scientific Railgun" spoilers
"A Certain Scientific Railgun" was one of the first anime I ever watched, and it has continued to hold up to scrutiny on every rewatch I've done. However, with how much of a masterpiece I claim that "BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!" is, can I still call it my favorite? There's only one way to find out, and that's to watch it again and give a play-by-play of my thoughts.
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Moving Search From Google To PageFind
November 12, 2025
I'm just enough of a narcissist to believe that people deserve to hear the things I have to say, so discoverability is very important to me. To that end, I've wanted to have some kind of search function on my site to make it easier to find older posts. Around two months ago, I added a Google Programmable Search Engine as a temporary measure, but I always had my eye on PageFind in the long term. Today, I finally took the time to implement the PageFind solution into the site.
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Iconic NASCAR Race Recap - 2021 Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway
November 8, 2025
I've been pretty vocal about my opinion on driving standards in NASCAR over the past five years or so. Races tend to devolve into guys running over each other as they go on, and that's only exacerbated at short tracks, where moving people out of your way is the only way to pass. Still, sometimes short tracks manage to put on a show. For example, the finish to the 2021 Food City 300, which I consider to be one of the greatest finishes I've ever watched. So, let's go back in time to recap if the race itself was as good as the finish.
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NASCAR Race Recap - 2025 Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway
November 3, 2025
Despite all the drama about the NASCAR playoff format, the Cup Series championship 4 was actually a pretty solid group. There's a solid argument to be made that each of them deserves a championship this season. However, we can only have one champion, so let's recap the 2025 championship race and all the drama within.
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NASCAR's Playoff Format Works Perfectly (Just Not For You)
November 2, 2025
NASCAR's current playoff format has been a target of ire among fans basically since its inception. These frustrations have only gotten more intense with how the 2025 Xfinity Series championship finished. The declarations of how the system is broken or doesn't work have never been louder. The problem with that way of thinking is that the system actually works perfectly. Or, rather, whether the system works depends on what exactly you're trying to accomplish.
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Mega Evolution Prerelease Recap
September 13, 2025
We are (maybe?) entering a new era of the Pokémon TCG with the release of the Mega Evolution set, and there are some interesting cards in it. While I don't have any insight on the set as a whole yet (although I hopefully will on the long-overdue second episode of the Nerd Out Podcast if and when that finally comes out), I did participate in a prerelease event, so I can speak to what I used and what I saw.
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Jacen's IndyCar 2025 Silly Season Analysis
September 3, 2025
The IndyCar 2025 season has come to a close, leaving us with over 3 months to speculate and analyze the various driver and team changes that will take place for the 2026 season. As someone completely unqualified to do so, I'd like to provide my own analysis on the changes that have already happened and the changes that might be to come.
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Why I Haven't Calculated The Most Time-Efficient Song in Project Sekai
June 20, 2025
Back when I did my blog post discussing optimal energy use, I teased the possibility of going over a proper calculation of the most time-efficient song in the game. I never ended up doing that post because I wasn't able to find the information I wanted to do it properly. This is both an explanation and a call for help if anyone has any information that I can't find.
Read more...How was Jacen's first-ever Pokémon DLC experience? - The Teal Mask Rant
June 5, 2025
The rant I uploaded to YouTube discussing my impressions of the Pokémon Violet Team Mask DLC.
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