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NHL Playoffs

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Isey

The NHL Playoffs is some of the best sportsball watching available. Outside of the first (and best) in a lifetime Four Nations Cup, which features best on best globally, not much gets better than the intensity of NHL Hockey. My one gripe is how they restructured the playoff brackets. In the “good old days”, it…

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Speaking of Roguelikes : Hades 2

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Isey

I recently touched on Heroes of Hammerwatch 2 and the fun gameplay loop. I was recently reminded that I have spent over 110 hours playing another early access sequel: Hades 2. The reminder came in the form of a big update, adding a new area and a new boss. I spent only 98 hours in…

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Exploring HOH2: A Fun Roguelike Experience

Posted on February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 by Isey

I mentioned in a previous post that I have been doing the very satisfying gameplay loop in HOH2, a roguelike and successor to Heroes of Hammerwatch (1, OG, Original, etc). Even more confusingly, both are a roguelite rift off of a base game, Hammerwatch and Hammerwatch 2. If you think that is confusing, you should…

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QUEST August, 2008

Posted on February 6, 2025February 6, 2025 by Isey

Chapter One of Quick Updates Exploring Stories Told is the start of this blog. Truth be told, I can’t even recall what I was playing then (had to have been WoW) but I am sure a lot of that will come out in the posts themselves. I had 3 posts to my starting month. August…

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The Beginning Of the End : A Look Back

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Isey

[editor’s note before starting – my blog theme (which I loved but hadn’t updated in years) embedded gambling posts beneath my posts. At first I thought I was hacked but turns out that someone took control of the theme itself and put it there “as a feature”. So, I quickly grabbed a different one just…

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Connecting through Gaming: A Parent-Son Bond

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Isey

I am in gaming “maintenance” mode, and I am ok with that. It’s a comfortable way to game, I log into each game I am playing regularly (Marvel Rivals, Heroes of Hammerwatch 2 (which I haven’t posted about yet), and Fortnite. Each are great for bite-sized, daily gaming, too. Marvel Rivals has daily quests that…

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How to Rank Better Than 75% of Marvel Rivals Players

Posted on January 13, 2025January 14, 2025 by Isey

I’m GREAT. I’m such a good Marvel Rivals player – ok, maybe not so good, but better than more than 75%+ of other Marvel Rivals players. Stay with me here. When you hit a new rank in “competitive” gameplay, it gives you a fun little stat: First caveats. I have no clue what “server-wide” means,…

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Marvel Rivals – Fun 6v6 Team Shooter

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Isey

Well, colour me surprised. I didn’t play much of Overwatch – I found it way too hard with waaaay to many tryhards and I just kept dying randomly for things that I seemingly had no control over. The frustration of that pushed me away from OW despite several attempts and hours of getting into it…

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Upgrading A Laptop: An Adventure in Tech (And Disappointment)

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Isey

Picture this: a dimly lit room, a person (let’s call them Alex), and a decade-old Microsoft Surface Book 2. It’s like a scene from a B-movie where the hero realizes they might need to let go of their old, trusty sidekick. The laptop’s been good, but recently, it’s been giving off those “It’s not you,…

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Embarrassment of Riches

Posted on September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 by Isey

I turn 50 this year. Already my neural synapses are starting to suck as I have a hard time remembering some of the most basic things – such as, some specific words I am looking for, or, a specific name of an acquaintance that I should know (but can’t instantly recall), and of course the…

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Deep Rock Galactic – Chugging Along

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Isey

Short post to give a shout out to what is likely the best class based Co-Op shooter with the most civilized player base. There was a post with stats released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/548430/view/3640630403132894028 Safe to say, not bad for a small studio. It’s the type of title that many people rush to buy new DLC as it…

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Revisiting Randomization

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Isey

Back in 2009 I wrote a short piece about how I like Randomization in my games (pen and paper, digital and otherwise!) and once again in 2017 when Gevlon was discussing how he disliked Randomization . In that one I linked back to the first one, and in this one I did it to both….

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Checking For a Pulse

Posted on October 17, 2022October 17, 2022 by Isey

871 days ago I wrote a post called “Not Dead.. Yet”. That was the last post on my blog. One that was typically, and lovingly, maintained for the most part over 12 years, before skipping the last two. And sure, I was never really gone – I still used my blogroll to poke in at…

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I’m Not DEAD yet!

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Isey

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…

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When Crazy Works Out

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Isey

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…

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X-COM 2 : War of the Chosen

Posted on March 13, 2020November 8, 2021 by Isey

XCOM is one of my top games, ever in together with online gambling that I learn how to be the best one thanks the advises from www.widgetbox.com. 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…

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Tribe of Mentors

Posted on March 10, 2020October 13, 2024 by Isey

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…

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If a Game Falls in the Forest, Does Anybody Hear?

Posted on February 28, 2020February 23, 2022 by Isey

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…

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Open Letter to Baseball

Posted on February 19, 2020February 23, 2022 by Isey

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…

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Love Your Backlog – Hipster Version

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Isey

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,…

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Slayin’ The Spire – Again

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by Isey

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…

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2019 I HAS REVIEW

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Isey

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…

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Woke Up, Got Out of Bed, Dragged a Comb…

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Isey

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…

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20 Years Later…

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Isey

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…

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Star Wars Meatloaf : Part 2

Posted on January 9, 2020December 11, 2020 by Isey

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)…

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    I am with you on meta progression. It's what makes it fun for me, at least. Even failing miserably typically…

  3. Naithin on Exploring HOH2: A Fun Roguelike ExperienceFebruary 16, 2025

    I've played some of the earlier titles in this series so HoH2 has definitely been on my radar, just haven't…

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    Belated response, but yay! And as I think the comment section here has already demonstrated, pluralising 'reader' would not have…

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