I got a pingback recently letting me know that one of my posts on this blog had been linked to by another. Curious about who was using my post about stealth in Cyberpunk 2077 as reference I checked it out. The post seemed… Odd. There was something off about its verbiage, links didn’t make sense.… Continue reading Hallucinated Stealth
Author: Joshua Tong
2024 In Review
Somehow 2024 is ending, the year having somehow gone by way too quickly and yet, in some ways, not nearly quick enough. As ever, the end of the year means a look back at this blog’s dozenth year of existence and what you, dear readers, clicked on. Three Most Popular / Viewed Posts #3: Unexpected… Continue reading 2024 In Review
Expanded Lore
After two seasons I am quite tepid on Amazon’s Rings of Power. Like, the show’s fine, I guess, doing some things well, other things less so. Sometimes it gives decidedly reverent shoutouts to Tolkien’s legendarium, other times it kinda runs roughshod over it, which wouldn’t be so bad except that it strikes me as choosing… Continue reading Expanded Lore
The Last Good Site On The Internet
Think back, if you will, to the internet of fifteen, twenty years ago. The internet was more than just a bunch of apps on your phone, more than just Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and whatever else is the social media du jour. There were myriad websites with a variety of diversions. There were fan… Continue reading The Last Good Site On The Internet
Fantasy Sports
I’m taking part in my company’s fantasy football league this year. And by taking part I mean I joined the group and deputized a friend of mine (who doesn’t work at the company) to handle putting players in and making trades and all that stuff that goes with it. I’m just in it for the… Continue reading Fantasy Sports
The End(?)
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(?)
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
Essays, Not Rants! 