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…
...or how I disassembled and reassembled my PS5, and lived to tell the tale. NO I DIDN'T! Three days after I wrote the following article, my PS5 "crashed and burned." I won't go into details, but almost certainly the cause was a flaw in my repair. I've given up and ordered a PS5 Pro. I purchased my…
In my attempts to be a good host, I clean off my gaming table before my guests arrive. According to Jiku and Shuba, any dirt the guests see on the table has nothing to do with them. It must be because Bill didn't clean well enough. Last night we managed to play three games in a single…
TL;DR: If you want to get notified of new posts on this blog via email, click here. Most folks learn of new posts on this blog because: I post links on a couple of Discord servers I'm on; I put links on both BlueSky and Mastodon; I send them links via text (mostly Real Angela and Actual…
It's been another year of three guys sharing an apartment. Two of them are gay. One of them is human. Hilarity ensues. Jiku and Shuba wish you a Happy Adoption Day!
This is part four of a four-part article that begins here. Observations In preparing this essay, I became aware of how much my process resembles that of making a movie: composing each shot; understanding the properties of the camera; consider what's in-frame; location scouting for the background in the images; organizing the cast (not all characters are…
This is part three of a four-part article that begins here. Poses Let's deal with the obvious: Those four pictures are the same image with different captions. There's no operative difference between that and something like this: Ah, that's better. I picked the name "Tav" because I was trying to hide. The name "Tav" was so common,…