Or putting myself in WRIP, quite yet. Although I probably should. I started taking online courses in my spare time, instead of writing, and working from home has been a drag. I have been hot and cold with gaming but work has extra responsibilities with this Pandemic, and when I get a spare hour I…
When Crazy Works Out
I finished X-COM 2, as I said I would last post. The final battle was a bit of a gong show in challenge, and I was down to two of six soldiers at the very end. It might had been worse, if my favorite hero (Jill Kelley) didn’t go berzerk. In the “perfect storm” of…
X-COM 2 : War of the Chosen
XCOM is one of my top games, ever. The old, original punishing one. One of the cool things about having a blog is going back over your own words – it’s scary to think I don’t remember writing those posts, yet they exist. The mind is an interesting thing and I’m going to stop now…
Tribe of Mentors
I was on vacation for an extended weekend – left Thursday, flew home yesterday, We don’t get away as much in the winter anymore as my son’s hockey program has been very successful the past 4 years. We have been playing hockey well into late March, early April. This year we (rightly so) lost out…
If a Game Falls in the Forest, Does Anybody Hear?
A weird thing happened the past week. I stopped logging into Project 1999. Project 1999 has been my go-to game for what literally feels like 20 years (convenient, right?) although when I click on my category “Project 1999” I really started posting regularly about it in April of last year. So almost a full 12…
Open Letter to Baseball
Dear Baseball. I used to like you . A lot. A long time fan of the game for my entire life. Sure, you haven’t been without drama, but man, you always know how to put on a statistical show. The game within the game. The beautiful sanctity of the pitcher / batter duel with a…
Love Your Backlog – Hipster Version
I love our blogging community. I learned about this initiative over at Time To Loot and decided it was worth looking at from an interest and time perspective. He, of course, got them from another blogger (who I have never read) and this is why blogging communities are fun – discovery! Bhagpuss also chimed in,…
Slayin’ The Spire – Again
I have only written about Slay The Spire twice – once back in February, 2018 on a recommendation from Zubon at Kill Ten Rats; and a second time when I gave it my coveted game of the year award in December 2018. That approval is as powerful as an Oscar, and many game companies wine…
2019 I HAS REVIEW
In the past I had broken down an annual review into 4 posts to really focus on what I was reading and writing about. I am going to condense that this year. The blog was down this year – and pretty much tit for tat with my posting. I don’t get a huge amount of…
Woke Up, Got Out of Bed, Dragged a Comb…
I watched the film “Yesterday” recently and it brought with it a resurgence of listening to Beatles albums. Not real albums, mind you, but Spotify playlists. In this first sentence there are three things I mentioned that I am not talking about today (The movie Yesterday, the Beatles, and Streaming Music) but the song “A…
20 Years Later…
I got my first epic in Everquest. Rather, Project 1999, so it still had it’s shares of challenges. In fact I am guessing with Mercs and the new level limit you can probably solo the crap out of the entire process. Not on my EQ. It actually really felt like an accomplishment. There were many…
Star Wars Meatloaf : Part 2
In my first Start Wars Meatloaf post (2 out of 3 ain’t) bad I explored one of the ain’t bad parts with the three different Star Wars experiences I had over the holidays. This post will discuss the IS’s bad part. And also the questionable grammar (often found here, irregardless <– did that on purpose)…
Star Wars Meatloaf
Two out of three ain’t bad. I spent some of my holiday time in the Star Wars universe in three different ways : The Movie, the new single player video game, and the the old Star Wars MMO. They were all different experiences and two were great, one not so much. And, in true “shit…
Happy Holidays BlogNation!
I know my posting schedule has nosedived but my love for the blogging community has not. The written word is important and I appreciate the content creators keeping it alive! Happy Holidays to all 🙂
The Mandolorian is Bad
Pitchforks and fire, Star Wars Fan boys & Girls, pitchforks and fire. Lest I forget – I am one of those fan boys. It’s bad. Like, really bad. So bad, not even Baby Yoda can save it. I love the Star Wars Universe. The games, the movies, the comics, the animated series – even the…
Happy Clash Royale-iversary!
As per the picture, a strange little badge popped up on my Player Profile just the other day. I have been playing Clash Royale for 3 years. Oh how the time flies. I started playing because all of the kids on my son’s hockey team were playing like crazy. And of course I like games.…
Brad, I’m Sorry.
Of course I am days behind on the breaking news that Brad McQuaid has died. And I feel loathe to even link to my posts about him here in the past. But I will. Here is when he suddenly returned and I called him out for shenanigans and past issues – fairly or unfairly at…
Movies are NOT Real Life
Either are video games. I have noticed this has been a challenge for some progressive reviewers of movies recently. That is too broad of a statement. Let me rephrase. This is the challenge with progressives as reviewers who can’t divorce make believe from reality. Society seems to already be struggling with facts vs feelings but…
An Everquest Adventure
Keep in mind this is on a time locked emulator, Project 1999. I made a new friend as only you can in EQ. I had some time before work and logged in to find the Ancient Cyclops camp open. I’ve been making tens of thousands here. With people leaving Blue for Green (and Teal), the…
Project 1999 Faces Population Issues
Who knew? The Project 1999 Green Server was so popular it was sitting at 2500 characters at launch, and well into week two. Keep in mind that is around 250 players per starting area. (Of course, not as neatly broken down that way, more like 500 in Gfay and 150 in Innoruk, but still. Get…
Green is Live
Project 1999 launches its “piece de resistance” today and I just checked and it is currently up and running with 1750 players currently on the Green Server (there are 500 still sticking around on Blue). I did hum and hah about it but have decided to play a Shaman on the server. At least to…
Can Big Data Save Politics?
Ugh. I know, political posts on gaming blogs. I promise I am not going to go all partisan. And my short style of writing may not be wholly appropriate for a topic of this magnitude, but doing it anyway. Considering it an entry discussion point! There is an election here in Canada. I have been…
Convenient Anger
Look, I get why people are mad at Blizzard and I had lower expectations than them a long time ago, so not surprised by what they did. I also don’t play any of their games right now anyway, so I can’t boycott my non playing. Of course, there are some other voices out there that…
Joker (2019)
I have made a few posts here fully mobile, and will link them when I get to a proper computer. I am drinking a beautiful, by a fire, smoking a Monte Cristo #5 while pretty sick. This has no bearing on this post. Except the mobile part. I just watched Joker. Obviously, no spoilers here.…
The Boys (Amazon Prime)
This original series starts off as anything but, well, original. Familiar looking and homogeneously named super folk start off doing heroic deeds. Within ten minutes you quickly realize this isn’t your typical superhero story. And by the end of the second episode you are dealt a healthy, fun does of WTF. I really enjoyed this…