Category Archives: videogames

Nerd Purge, continued: rambling about PC gaming.

A few days ago, I mentioned that I was in the process of thinning out computers and game consoles and, well, other technology that kind of piles up when you’re in the line of work I’m in and have the … Continue reading

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The Computers of CODBLOPS6

I’ve been a subscriber to Microsoft Gamepass for a few years now, but never a heavy user.  So, between my most recent annual subscription expiring and the recent price increase I figured it might be time to let it rest … Continue reading

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Hitherto unseen levels of procrastination

If you dig a few years back in the post archives, you’ll come across a post where I describe completing the Assassin’s Creed II platinum trophy something like seven years after finishing the game. This was done with a mixture … Continue reading

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Two for Tuesday

After loading up the “Sofa” app with my backlog of Stuff to Play/Watch/etc, I thought I would start tackling some of the items in the list.  “Fighting games” seemed like a reasonably good place to start, since I only had … Continue reading

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I played some more Fire Emblem

I think that title is read as “Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia” but I guess it’s possible that “Echoes” goes at the end.  If I had the box it might be more clear, but I bought it off the … Continue reading

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Elden Ring: OK, time for blasphemy.

I finished* Elden Ring today.  That’s “Finished*” with a big ol’ Roger-Maris-61* style asterisk, because after about four hours of hoping the final boss would get tired of bruising his knuckles with my face I finally gave up and summoned … Continue reading

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On Digital Graveyards

Entirely self-indulgent post today, because I finally took like two hours to answer a really trivial question that has been bugging me for, at this point, literal years. See, back in early 2008 I played through the campaign mode of … Continue reading

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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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