Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Watched the first half of the first episode of Ascension last night. The premise is that, in the mid sixties, America launched an interstellar starship based on Orion technology in total secret to the stars, and now, 51 years later, their frozen-in-amber society is beginning to unravel. Orion worked by shooting nuclear bombs out the … Read more
It’s #Darsana today! Ingress players from all over the northeast are gathering today in Hartford for the Darsana anomaly. I don’t know the storyline — I haven’t played much Ingress since work transferred me to a location without many nearby portals — but there was no way I was going to miss this event in … Read more
Finished William Gibson’s “The Peripheral”. A barely employed woman from a rural near future subs for her brother as a game beta tester and sees a gruesome murder in the game which seems set in a London of the far future. But, it’s not a game, the death is real, she’s the only one who … Read more