A work-related gripe: There are three things a physicist will never do: Go faster than the speed of light. Make two electrons occupy the same quantum state. Put something back where they found it. There's substantial experimental evidence for all three of these statements.
This is part three of a twelve-part story, whose introduction is here. Images with blue lines around them are links to story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story.
This is part two of a twelve-part story, whose introduction is here. Images with blue lines around them are links to story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story.
Character I wasn’t originally going to write this post, because how many playthroughs can one actually make a whole blog post about? But I went through all my screenshots to name them (since I use them in my worldbuilding posts or other critiques) and found myself laughing at some of them, so I figured I’d write a…
This is part one of a twelve-part story, whose introduction is here. Images with blue lines around them are links to story background. The last image in a post is a link to the next post in the story.
TL;DR: Go straight to part one. As Tolkien put it, "This tale grew in the telling." This is an introduction to my pictorial fanfic in general, and to the story I've prepared based on my eighteenth playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3. It consists of about 830 images, selected out of a pool of over 7500, with captions…
SPOILER WARNING for all sorts of stuff throughout the game Welcome to the next post of the BG3 world/lore series! In my last post, I talked about how Shar is utter garbage and caused a big chunk of Act 2. I left off by saying that she was responsible for half of the crap that happened in the…
Last year, for Real Angela's birthday, I got her a cameo from Neil Newbon, the actor behind the character of Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3. This year (why mess with success?) I arranged for a cameo from Devora Wilde, the actor who supplied the voice and motion-capture for the character of Lae'zel. She provided a bright, cheery…
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…