Category Archives: videogames

Prepping for the next homelab project

So, my homelab experiment is running generally quite well.  I keep running into an annoying Proxmox bug that makes the ethernet controller hang up, and hopefully they will fix that soon, but I have a lot of self-hosted services now. … Continue reading

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Dunstabbin’ (again)

Finished Assassin’s Creed: Mirage tonight, which is embarrassingly-enough the first “real game” I have completed all year.  I’ve spent entirely too many hours in soulless gacha waifu cash grabs, and I shall do penance appropriately. I mean, after I do … Continue reading

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The Cloudy Stabbing Mans

While I am a big fan of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, I’m usually at least a couple of years behind the curve when it comes to actually playing the latest entries. So, just getting around to Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, two … Continue reading

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Groundhog Day, Genshin Impact Style

Continuing from the last post, here’s my impressions of Genshin’s Sumeru Archon quest from my second time playing through it. My first pass through Sumeru was enough to drive me away from the game for a while, mostly because I … Continue reading

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Genshin’s Inazuma, a second time.

Continuing my thoughts on the Genshin storyline and areas, from my second playthrough. I’m not sure if it’s accurate to call Inazuma Genshin’s first big expansion, since it came after the patch that added Dragonspine, but Dragonspine is a completely … Continue reading

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Second Impact

Following up from yesterday’s post, where I described how I’d decided that playing through Genshin Impact, one of the biggest open-world games available, FOR A SECOND TIME, would be an excellent use of my limited hours on this planet. On … Continue reading

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18th Anniversary post?

This blog launched on March 3rd, 2007.  It’s been a ride, and I figured that I should write something here to prove that I’m still alive. It has been 18 years of very sporadic posting, and most of it has … Continue reading

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Wait, ANOTHER good Marvel game?

A few weeks back, I got around to playing Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.  It was pretty good, and went a long way towards helping me forget how little fun I had with the Avengers game that had come out … Continue reading

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Circles, pretty good:

So, last month I really wanted to get the new Genshin Impact cosmetics that you could only get if you launched the game on an Xbox, but I had just sold my Series X out of a desire to cut … Continue reading

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Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau : What the heck did I just play?

So, I’m not the biggest fan of the phrase “So bad, it’s good”.  Like, I have a soft spot for the occasional objectively-bad piece of entertainment – I will defend the 1993 Super Mario Brothers movie to my final days … Continue reading

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