I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Twister, but like most children of the nineties, I've seen various snatches of it on tv and studied the VHS case. Twister was just another movie that I never saw and the sequel was going to follow its shoes until I decided to do a double feature with it… Continue reading Perfectly Fine
Back To The Battlegrounds
Through an endeavor of emulation, I’ve managed to get Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds running on a Mac. The little hiccups of wanting to play a game that you own the Windows edition of on Steam when you exist in a Mac-based environment. But I got it working! And I, once again, revisited an old Star… Continue reading Back To The Battlegrounds
Inconvenience
In I Am Bread you play as a slice of bread that roams around a room with the goal of becoming toast. It’s very silly and also quite frustrating. You don’t move around in a conventional video game way, instead, each shoulder button on the controller lets a corner of the bread 'grab' a surface… Continue reading Inconvenience
Catalogued
There is a wiki for Calvin and Hobbes. I found this out while trying to find an old Foxtrot strip about the then-recently released The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (a collection I now own). My googling presented me with some results from a wiki before I eventually found the strip in question on a lovely… Continue reading Catalogued
Schedule Slip
It’s past midnight on a Saturday night, making this another instance of me missing my deadline of a Saturday for a blogpost. The day ended up being busy, which is probably another reminder that Saturdays aren’t really the most reliable to set aside time to write something. But then again, weekdays are tough too when… Continue reading Schedule Slip
Above Reproach
One of these days, I’ll probably replay Kingdom Hearts. In part because of the recent Final Fantasy kick, in part because it’s been around a decade since I last played it (and II and Chain Of Memories). If and when I do revisit it, I wonder how it’ll hold up, both as a game over… Continue reading Above Reproach
Photoblog
I got a couple rolls of film developed and decided, you know what, I’m going to post some of them here. Because it’s my blog and I can do what I want, and if that means sometimes it becomes a photoblog, so be it. Besides, photoessays are still essays, aren’t they? Death Valley, lford Delta… Continue reading Photoblog
Variations On A Theme
I finished Final Fantasy IX this week (for those keeping track at home, this is the sixth Final Fantasy since booting up VIII back in the fall of 2022). It’s a lot like the other Final Fantasies. It’s got the hero who, like in X, has to grapple with the fact that his very existence… Continue reading Variations On A Theme
Venice in Person
So I finally made it to Venice where I undertook what can best be described as a walking tour heavily influenced by Assassin’s Creed II (with a smattering of Civilization VI). Did spending hours exploring a virtual simulacrum of a (historical version of a) real-world city have any bearing on a visit? Frankly? Yes. Look,… Continue reading Venice in Person
Unexpected Adventure
Due to a series of events that can only be described as airplane delay shenanigans, today finds me writing this from the Copenhagen airport, on the tail end of an unexpected six hour layover, settled by my gate playing Civilization VI while drinking a pint of beer. On the one hand, I’m getting to Italy… Continue reading Unexpected Adventure
Essays, Not Rants! 