Come for the games, stay for the drama.
I really want to apologize for the gaps in game blogging. I’m still gaming, as much as ever. I have a lot to write about with EverQuest II, the PlayStation 5, and especially Assassins Creed: Valhalla, and I will try to get to these things 🙂 As well as streaming again. But for now, here’s … Read more
I chose my first 3D printer carefully. I lurked on r/3dprinting for months, reading all their guides, looking at what they were printing, finding people who were doing the sorts of things with their printer that I wanted to do, and finally ordered the best of the bunch: The Creality Ender 3 Pro. There was … Read more
I hate to be hyperbolic about this. But… I just can’t. Imagine… a marketplace, backed by the “blockchain” and “non-fungible tokens”, where you could buy gacha packs that contain random gifs of old Atari 2600 cartridge boxes. Some just stand there, doing nothing. Some are colored gold. Some spin. If you are very, very lucky, … Read more
I’d forgotten we’d discussed changing game night from Thursday to Wednesday and only remembered when my daughter showed up on the doorstep, ready to game. I didn’t have the next Jaws of the Lion scenario ready, and we’d just played Terraforming Mars. Me, I wanted to play Mahjong, but I wasn’t hearing a lot of … Read more
There’s been many efforts to define exactly what a “rogue-like” game is. Permadeath is definitely one. A different map every time you play is another. Having to discover each time what the magic items you discover do, that’s one. Descending into a deep dungeon, grabbing a quest item and making it back to the surface … Read more