Category Archives: videogames

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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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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