Category Archives: videogames

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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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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