I sort of indulged myself with this one. If the joke made no sense, then you can read this. The joke still won’t make sense, but at least you’ll be distracted.
I’ve wanted to make this joke for ages. Long before DM of the Rings, I used to think this way when dice would bounce away and fall in some hidden corner.
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This week I’ve gotten to play more Stardew valley. I’ve mostly just been fishing, and when I’m not fishing I’m watering the 300 pumpkin plants I decided to grow without any sprinklers for some reason. I also started playing a little bit of Rimworld again. I’m not very good at the game but I hope to give someone as many bionic parts as I can, just to see how it goes. Anyway, what are you guys doing this week?
I did quite a bit this past week, but I’m not sure how much is worth documenting. I guess we’ll find out. Anyone who missed out on the many comments on last week’s Fallout TV series post, make sure you follow up; unless you want to miss spoilers. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had deleted my Destruction Warlock that was somewhere around halfway through Battle for Azeroth in Worlds of Warcraft, due to difficulty in following the storyline properly. I switched to my Draenei Hunter Mystilatre and chose to level up in Warlords of Draenor. And I have to say, I have had a much better experience this time around. Lots of images in this one, at least toward the end.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “World of Warcraft: WoD Still Stands Out and More Fallout”
This week I’ve started playing Stardew Valley with my siblings. We’re not very far yet, so not a lot has happened; I’m hoping we’ll get farther in this time, last time there was too much going on to commit to it. I also played the demo for ROBOBEAT. To me, it’s like if Ultrakill decided that being a FPS wasn’t enough and wanted to become a Roguelike Rhythm FPS with the bonus of being able to add your own music. I only played for a bit, but when I can I will probably buy it for myself. What are you guys up to this week?
I mean it. If you want to experience the Fallout TV series fresh, without any more foreknowledge than you have probably received already, don’t read this. Because I’m going to be talking about several things IN-DEPTH. Also, TRIGGER WARNING: if you are part of the (honestly small) group of people screaming “I can’t believe they disrespected Fallout like this! They got SO MUCH wrong! It’s horrible!” then you probably need to go away and not read this, either. Because, putting it right up front; I think the Fallout TV series is brilliant; and a wonderful addition to Fallout lore. The writers REALLY understood what these games are about. Not that mistakes weren’t made, but NOT in the lore or the tone. Just in general continuity and storytelling. I unabashedly recommend this series to EVERY Fallout fan.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “SPOILERS: I’m talking about the Fallout TV series”
We need to talk about Thomas the Tank Engine.
No, we don’t actually. But ever since I watched Thomas “TomSka” Ridgewell’s video about Thomas the Tank Engine, that opening line has been stuck in my head. Tom mentions having a, what he believes is quite conventional, relationship to the British children’s show. That is, when he was a child, he watched it. When he wasn’t a child, he didn’t watch it anymore. That seems reasonable. As is, or was anyway, common in England; television programs tended to be produced one series (what Americans would call a “season”) at a time rather than under an open-ended contract. So while the first two series/seasons appeared in the early 80’s, the third didn’t run until several years later. The show picked up…steam…and probably hit peak popularity in the mid-to-late 1990’s. This was when Thomas big-screen movies started to appear. And while the average person, especially us American GenX’ers who only had early exposure to Thomas through the PBS children’s show Shining Time Station; could be forgiven for thinking Thomas probably disappeared sometime early in the new millennium….well, you are wrong. As I have discovered, Thomas…chugged…steadily along until Mattel(!) bought the franchise, and made some decisions that have ONLY RECENTLY left the show in somewhat questionable circumstances.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Scattered Thoughts on Hobbies, SWTOR, and WoW”
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2013.
An ongoing series where I work on making a 2D action game from scratch.
A long-form analysis on one of the greatest horror games ever made.
Let's do some scripting to make the Starcraft AI fight itself, and see how smart it is. Or isn't.
This series explores the troubled history of VR and the strange lawsuit between Zenimax publishing and Facebook.
This is why shopping for graphics cards is so stupid and miserable.
The Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim is a vortex of disjointed plot-holes, contrivances, and nonsense.
The plot of this game isn't just dumb, it's actively hostile to the player. This game hates you and thinks you are stupid.
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
Imagine if the original Star Wars hadn't appeared in the 1970's, but instead was pitched to studios in 2006. How would that turn out?
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