I have a confession to make: I’m a big fan of spreadsheets. Not mere tables, spreadsheets with all their persnickety math and functions. They’re a great way to store and compute data! I also find the process of making one to be quite rewarding. Frustrating too, when that one formula won’t behave just the way… Continue reading The Humanity of Spreadsheet Creation
System Building
I got into Slay The Spire a few months ago when I saw it on Apple Arcade. It’s a deck building roguelike video game where you collect cards every run and try to build a deck that’ll help you defeat your opponents and the boss. It’s a lot of fun, hoping that the cards you… Continue reading System Building
An Elegy For BioWare
News broke this week that another game studio was shutting down. The victim of private equity this time was the storied BioWare, the studio behind Knights of The Old Republic and Mass Effect. This is truly gutting news. I love KOTOR – it’s an exceptional Star Wars story and an excellent rpg. The Mass Effect… Continue reading An Elegy For BioWare
Missing Out
As might be implied by my intermittent posts as of late, I’ve been having a busy few weeks where the time to get something written by the weekend. This busy-ness also means missing stuff. I haven’t managed to see Forgotten Island yet, nor the documentaries Musk and You Can See Everything, let alone the Street… Continue reading Missing Out
Presented Without Comment
Something that becomes quickly apparent when roaming the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is that the placards accompanying the pieces are quite sparse. They give the name of the work, the artist, the year, and the medium. Nothing more, unless the work is on loan then in says where from. But there’s no explanation… Continue reading Presented Without Comment
Museum Day
Y’know, I did plan to write something today. I also planned to go to the newly-opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. What I did not plan on was somehow spending nearly five hours there and only leaving since it was, well, closing. That does leave much less time to blogging the intended. But in light… Continue reading Museum Day
Human Error
After a couple weeks away, we’re back! And we’re talking about corn. While away, I had the chance to eat some fancy food, one dish of which was steamed egg with corn. Alright, so the dish itself isn’t that fancy; it was at a fancy place and it was a prelude for fancier dishes. Anyway.… Continue reading Human Error
Unoriginal Originality
I will admit that when Star Wars: Zero Company was announced I neither needed to hear nor see anything beyond "it’s Star Wars XCOM" to know I was going to buy it.I love the XCOM strategy games and I love Star Wars. Mixing the two together is a dream for me. The game came out… Continue reading Unoriginal Originality
A Side Project
I've taken on a side project lately. A year or more ago I came across a website that sold official recreations of Star Wars props. Among sets of Stormtrooper armor and more, a helmets caught my eye, in particular a plain rebel X-wing pilot helmet with a few sheets of decals for the owner to apply… Continue reading A Side Project
Price of Greatness
An aspect of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey that I found so very striking was how it reinterprets Homer’s epic poem. The classic is an epic adventure: wily Odysseus outsmarts his foes and wins fame and fortune on his decade-long journey home. It’s the story we know, the story we read in school, the… Continue reading Price of Greatness
