Category Archives: videogames

I played another Call of Duty. It was pretty good!

Recently, I sat down with a couple games that weren’t soulless mobile gacha cash grabs, and I even finished two of them.  One was Stray, which was a game I’m not entirely sure I enjoyed but did make me think, … Continue reading

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Ermagahd I’m actually caught up.

With all of the posts about various mobile games of late, you would be forgiven for assuming that I had gone completely astray and succumbed to Live Service Game Madness.  Mostly because it’s kinda true? However – and this is … Continue reading

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Three years later, I’ve finished Blue Archive

So I should start with a flashback to March of 2021, when everyone in my home state was still dealing with pandemic lockdowns.  We had some of the more severe restrictions in the nation, and everyone was pretty much dealing … Continue reading

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Looks like we’re getting some more withered technology?

The internet went a little nuts today because apparently the Switch successor has been pushed back to 2025.  I doubt I’ll be anywhere near to done with my backlog by then, so it seems fine to me. Honestly, the system … Continue reading

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Finally, a trophy waifu.

Despite being a big dang gamer nerd, I don’t have many platinum trophies.  Most of them are rhythm games or Soulslikes, and while either of those represents a certain amount of dedication they cannot compare to the time it took … Continue reading

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The Day the Music (games) Died.

If you scroll back a few months of posts – which isn’t that many posts, embarrassingly enough – you’ll come to a post of mine from September 2022 where I made fun of myself for completing the first Season Pass … Continue reading

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Making life hard for a matchmaking algorithm.

I have a bad habit of reading online forum threads and deciding to conduct experiments based on them, and that’s why I spent a lot of my Thanksgiving weekend playing random matches of Call of Duty multiplayer. This is very … Continue reading

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The fading days of StreetPass

One of my favorite features of the 3DS was “StreetPass”, which let your 3DS check in with any nearby 3DS systems and exchange a little greeting which included your Mii, what you’d been playing lately, and a little greeting.  Some … Continue reading

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In which, I talk about a post-apocalyptic anime waifu tactical cover shooter gacha mobile game.

So I have a dirty little secret.  I’ve been playing, and enjoying, a game about cute cyborg girls with big guns.  That wouldn’t be too shameful, on the face of it, but there’s one thing I feel desperately compelled to … Continue reading

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Getting ahead of the digital future

Since I’ve gone almost entirely away from physical media, I’ve had to come to grips with the notion that the “digital future” probably means losing access to things I’ve paid money for, from time to time.  It’s actually pretty rare … Continue reading

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