In an earlier blog post about opening up a trunk of old games, I extolled the virtues of The Empire of the Petal Throne, a world setting devised by M. A. R. Barker. Less than a half-hour ago as I write this, I was reading the introduction to Playing at the World, 2E, Volume 1: The Invention…
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Yes, you! And you don't even need a copy of Baldur's Gate 3 to do it. It starts with this article that was published in Ars Technica. The article describes how a software engineer set up a public test of Google's AI photo interpretation. I strongly suggest you read the article, then head over to They See…
Today I watched the series finale of Superman & Lois. As a life-long Superman fan, I thought the series was decent enough and wrapped up well. I was mostly watching it because it was the last gasp of the Arrowverse, a set of TV series on the CW network that harked back to my aforementioned DC-comic fan…
In a post in my BG3 series, I observed that, for reasons detailed in that post, I'd taken over five thousand screenshots from Baldur's Gate 3. Through a rather tedious process, those images were transferred to my Photos Library on Mac OS. Let's set aside the question of whether that number of photos was excessive. What I…
Somehow I managed to get seven blog posts out of a single Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough. In my defense: When I add up the word count for all the playthrough 11 posts (not including this one), I see I've written longer posts for previous playthroughs. You may not believe me, but the reason why the posts are…
If you hoped Bill would give up this Baldur's Gate 3 fixation any time soon, mods have dashed it. What's a "mod"? If you already know this, skip to the next section. (Unless you like to look at the photos, or bask in the cozy warmth of my writing style.) After a video game is formally released,…
No, this isn't my last post on my 11th playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3. There will be at least two more posts after this one. Honestly, I hadn't thought this particular playthrough was that memorable. But perhaps this is a natural consequence of my resolve to split up this "playthrough diary" into multiple parts. When I add…
As I've mentioned before, this series of Baldur's Gate 3 posts are primarily intended to be annotated photo essays. That means taking photos. I knew how to take screenshots and video captures on my PS5, but I didn't know how to transfer them to my computer until I got a Playstation Plus account. I got the account…
As I've mentioned in my previous BG3 posts, one of the goals of my playthroughs is to see what it's like to enter into a relationship with each of the available romancable characters. Of course, this allows me to see all the available sex scenes in the game. The relationship goal for this playthrough was Gale. In…