Maria and Andrew are fans of Ark Nova. They've played the digital version many times. Last night, they brought their copy of the physical game for all four of us to play. Like Wingspan on our previous game night, the game components had not been touched before and required some unwrapping and punching. In addition to requiring…
My short essay on my search for the Klingons lyrics to Total Eclipse of the Heart has become one of the most popular posts on this site. I know the reason. Folks are trying to find those lyrics, and come across that essay in their web searches. They leave disappointed. I'm on the Discord server for the…
Even before the fanfic, let's get this disclaimer out of the way: This essay is a supplement to Real Angela's excellent essay on stuffed bear locations in Baldur's Gate 3. It's not a replacement. Read that article first. Then come back here to learn why her count of stuffed animals was 50, while mine is closer to…
Yesterday we made an attempt at Chapter 3 of Soul Raiders. To remind you of the "story so far": In August 2025 we played Chapter 1 and got through it successfully in a single night. In September 2025 we started on Chapter 2. It's a bigger and more complex story. We were only able to go part…
For reasons that will only be clear if someone watches tonight's episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I spent some time trying to find the lyrics of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart in the original Klingon. While some popular songs have been returned to their full Klingon glory, Total Eclipse of the Heart's restoration…
In my previous Last Night's Game post, I talked about trying to play a game of Vestige. We had to stop that game because it was getting late. This time, we decided to start the evening with Vestige. From the wording of the above picture captions, you've probably figured out that we didn't finish the game. We…
TL;DR: Hades II is like Hades, with a better story and more complex gameplay. I wrote a review of Hades in 2021. I hadn't expected to like a rogue-lite so much. Hades II requires good twitch reflexes. In general, I'm lousy at such games. The only reason I spent time with Hades is the story was engaging.…
Maria couldn't make it last night, so it was just Andrew, John, and I. After Space Cats, we tried to move on to a different board game, Vestige. It was at that point that Andrew realized that it was getting late, and there was no way we were going to finish this game at a reasonable hour.…
Of all the posts I've written that fall into the "This matters only to Bill" category, this one is the most "This matters only to Bill"-est. My Baldur's Gate 3 fanfic tends to refer to itself a lot. One story daisy-chains into another. Even I, the guy who wrote them, can lose track. Also, there's a connection…
... or the origin of Jarvis. This is the follow-up post to the teaser I posted about three months ago. Why? Let's deal with the obvious question: I have a long-documented antipathy towards the Windows operating system. Why did I buy a Windows machine? If you've followed my blog posts, or looked at the tag cloud, or…