This week I’ve just played Minecraft. I intended to play other games but I didn’t realize that it had been so long since I last played. So I got to explore some new stuff and hopefully I will not run into a Warden.
What are you guys playing?
Like all other American fast-food pizza restaurants, Pizza Hut has struggled with the “non-pizza” parts of its menu. Beyond establishing a standard “bread stick” offering, the major players in the market shuffle a handful of options. The most common of these: pasta choices, breadstick variations, and sub sandwiches, populate the standard menu of some restaurants, but not all. Flavored chicken wings seems to have made a long-term commitment to pizza restaurants at this point, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just a long-cycle trend. Recurring options usually appear in the form of some kind of “giant-sized” pizza advertised as a “family” or “party” option, some more specialized bread options, and the perennial try-hard: the “not-a-calzone.”
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Pizza and SWTOR: Level 80 Maintenance”
There is a lot myself, my dad, and my family never brought up on this site. The closest this place got to ‘the real’ was when my dad and I each wrote books about our real life experiences, and of course, when dad died. Dad wrote about my seizures briefly when they happened, and some of our money problems when the house foreclosed, but a whole human life doesn’t really fit on a blog. It’s hard to know how much to share, when to share, and how to share it, especially with strangers, even in a place of familiarity. It doesn’t take rocket science to read my dad’s autobiography and know there is some very deeply set generational trauma in our family. Dad always tried to write kindly about people, but also be entirely truthful, and I really admired his ability to balance both of those things even when they felt mutually exclusive.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Some Unaesthetic Mental Health: The Plural They”
This week I’ve not done very much. I’ve played Roblox and helped my siblings with their various Minecraft projects. I also intend to play the Half-Life 2: Episode 2 VR mod now that I’ve got a slightly better GPU.
What are you guys playing?
Before returning to the Revanites, Kaliyo and I detour back to Kaas City to decide what to do with the Mask of Revan. Ladra wants the mask as a symbol, and possibly believes it contains ancient power. Torrun seems to just want the mask to keep it from people like Ladra and Grathan. I think the situation stinks. Stealing the mask from Grathan is a unique situation…what do the Revanites NORMALLY do? Does that mean Grathan is actually in on this charade? He’s a Sith Lord; sacrificing a few dozen guards every week means nothing to him. The flip-side is what I said to Acolyte Sandor: this is the culmination of a handful of coincidences. But I just can’t believe that. Possible? Yes. But the most plausible explanation is that Grathan and the Revanites are allied against the Emperor and the Dark Council. I haven’t talked to Watcher 2 or Keeper about this, and that may have been a mistake. I considered this journey through the local Revanite Cult to be an extracurricular activity that might help me with my mission to recover Theover Mindak’s contacts. Now it seems possible someone is organizing numerous opposition forces simultaneously.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “SWTOR: Rix’larril’an of the Ascendancy 2.05”
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Why Google sucks, and what made me switch to crowdfunding for this site.
A look at the main Borderlands games. What works, what doesn't, and where the series can go from here.
A look back at one of my favorite games. The gameplay was stellar, but the underlying story was clumsy and oddly constructed.
Most stories have plot holes. The failure isn't that they exist, it's when you notice them while immersed in the story.
Back in 1999, I rode the dot-com bubble. Got rich. Worked hard. Went crazy. Turned poor. It was fun.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2017.
A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
People fault EA for being greedy, but their real sin is just how terrible they are at it.
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