I’m not a League of Legends player, not by a long shot. I played a couple rounds of DOTA with some friends several years ago and was very much a liability to my team. Figuring I wasn’t much for it, I never got into MOBAs when they became a big thing, checking out neither DOTA2… Continue reading The End(?)
Author: Joshua Tong
Travel Day
Today was a travel day, so no blog post today. Turns out Saturday makes for a great day for flying when you’re beholden to a conventional Monday-to-Friday work week. Makes Saturdays less great for blog posts, especially at the end of a week, and doubly so when you’re spending your prelude to Friday night packing… Continue reading Travel Day
Graphically Competent
I’ve been replaying Uncharted 4, looking for a discrete narrative adventure after playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 and before I inevitably lose myself to Star Wars Outlaws. Though maybe I’ll finally check out the Wolfenstein games too — fighting Nazis seems cathartic in the light of the everything of it all. But Uncharted 4.… Continue reading Graphically Competent
Still In This Fight
What a week, huh? Refreshing the Associated Press’ election coverage while at the office in Tuesday night was… crushing, to say the least. It wasn’t so much watching the person I wanted to win lose that hurt, it was seeing a majority of the electorate condone a leader with an agenda of blatant racism, misogyny,… Continue reading Still In This Fight
I’m Tired Of This Fight
So, next week, huh? It feels like we’ve been having the same discussion for nearly a decade now, ever since blatant misogyny and xenophobia became part of regular American political discourse. And here we are, waiting with bated breath to see if the United States elects a man who longs to be a dictator, to… Continue reading I’m Tired Of This Fight
Just Another Two Weeks
Well that was another week. Maybe by Wednesday after next the everything of it all will have finally subsided and we might finally be free of this hanging specter of doom and able to focus on the other specters of doom that haunt this world. And if all that sounds vague, then please enjoy this… Continue reading Just Another Two Weeks
Week’s End
This week got away from me for a handful of reasons and it’s Saturday night and my blog post is unwritten. So here’s one of those Things I’ve Been Enjoying Lately — and why. Movie: Hundreds of Beavers I finally got around to watching it and it’s a fantastic comedic romp. The less you know… Continue reading Week’s End
A Hot Take About A Current Movie
I started this blog post trying to write about The Room, a movie that’s a disaster but a very entertaining disaster, a… passion? vanity? project by filmmaker (auteur? lunatic?) Tommy Wiseau that I’ve written about before. I wanted to write about The Room because I jut saw Megalopolis, a passion? vanity? project by Francis Ford… Continue reading A Hot Take About A Current Movie
SHIPtember 2024
I took part in SHIPtember this year, an informal building event where you try and make a space ship out of Lego bricks during September. Well, not just any ship, a SHIP: a Seriously Huge Investment In Parts that measures at least 100 studs long (which is around 80cm or 31.5 inches). Point is, it’s… Continue reading SHIPtember 2024
I’ll Wait This Time
There’s a new Star Wars video game out! In Outlaws you play as a scoundrel who’s doing (space) crime as she makes her way through the galaxy, avoiding the Empire and running in with the rough and tumble of the Outer Rim. It sounds pretty cool. I say sounds because even though it came out… Continue reading I’ll Wait This Time
Essays, Not Rants! 