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Category Archives: Writing About Games
Rattling Off Bullets
At the moment, the last week feels like it was very long indeed. Late-day energy crashes are fun. As such, quick bullet points:
Posted in Accountability, Hey Ian Watcha Into, Personal, Tabletop RPGs, Video Games, Writing About Games
Tagged bodybuilding, castles & crusades, castles and crusades, exercise, fallout, fallout TV, friends, jobhunt, podcast, primary attribute, tabletop rpg design, tabletop rpgs, weightlifting, XCOM
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Well Hello There
It’s been a minute, which is more and more common between posts lately, much to my frustration. Full time day jobs, depression, and exhaustion are a pain and a half. But a quick summary of what’s been going on!
Posted in Accountability, Personal, Video Games, Writing About Games
Tagged apartment stuff, clothes, dating, diet, eating, exercise, finances, food, gradschool, pokemon, school, video games, weddings
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(Animal) Crossing Back Over Into New Leaf
I picked up my copy of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the first time in ages this week. I bought it when I went to visit my family this last Christmas, and didn’t play it much after I got back. … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games, Writing About Games
Tagged 3DS, animal crossing, animal crossing new leaf, housing, nintendo, video games
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The Best Cons Require a Team
All the best cons require a team. I mean, just look at Leverage. No one of the characters could have pulled off the heists they did without help from the others. Same with Ocean’s 11 and its sequels, and Ocean’s … Continue reading
Posted in Running the World-machine, Tabletop RPGs, Writing About Games
Tagged dungeonsanddragons, GMing, runningtheworldmachine
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Let’s Play Max Payne: Episode 1
Hey everyone! I recorded a Let’s Play for Max Payne. At least the first episode of one. The game is super-melodramatic, to a ridiculous degree, so you get to experience a lot of painful (or funny, depending) writing in this … Continue reading
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Tagged letsplay, maxpayne, video games
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Vampyr (2018) Review
Vampyr A Beautiful Mess Platform Played On: PC Developer: DONTNOD Publisher: Focus Home Entertainment Year Released: 2018 Vampyr wants to be a lot of things. An action-RPG with branching combat styles. A deep story game with important moral choices that … Continue reading
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Tagged reviews, video games
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Gameboy Camera Zooming and Peripheral Bit Rot
In very cool, very retro news, a photographer named Bastiaan Ekeler made a zoom lens for his Gameboy Camera. It’s a very impressive modification, letting him take full-frame shots of objects as far away as the Moon. There’s something incredibly … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Video Games, Writing About Games
Tagged archiving, bit rot, game design, retro, video game peripherals, video games
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Neat Gaming News!
A round-up of some of the gaming news I’ve seen recently that is very, very cool. To me, the coolest kid. >_>;; Xbox Adaptive Controller from Microsoft A controller that’s made from the ground-up to be customized by people with … Continue reading
Posted in Game Development, Technology, Video Games, Writing About Games
Tagged accessibility, android, gamedesign, gamedevelopment, games, pcgaming, pubg, videogames
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Have Fire, Will Travel: Destructive Mistakes
When last we left K’lathan the Argonian, my avatar for this little journey, he’d just crashed in Whiterun overnight after a long and arduous journey from Riverwood, after almost being eaten by a dragon in Helgen. He’s delivered his message. … Continue reading
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Tagged havefirewilltravel, klathan, letsplay, mistakes, skyrim
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Have Fire, Will Travel: Part 1
At the encouragement (read: fun stories) of some friends in a Slack I’m in, I decided to jump back into Skyrim. (The Special Edition, on PC, and unmodded, for those of you keeping score at home.) And what better way … Continue reading
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