Background and goals After the emotional train wreck of my previous evil playthrough, I wanted to do one that was light and bubbly — so I decided to play as the terminally ill character! For this playthrough, I added the goal of collecting all the teddy bears in the game. Partially because I need to give myself…
I join A, M, and J on most Friday nights for a game night, so my "last night" recap is normally typed on Saturday. I'm typing this on a Sunday. Am I a liar? Well, maybe. But not this time. We continued to play Emberleaf until 1AM, technically into Saturday. From a certain perspective, that game still…
In a post in which I wrote about problems I had running Baldur's Gate 3 on my Mac, I described a problem I had with running the program while also running VPN. I went through network traces and whatnot to try to track down the problem, with no success. Larian released Hotfix #34 for BG3 about a…
J couldn't make it last night, so we invited a different gamer whom we all knew. He and A shared the same first initial ("A", in case you hadn't guessed). So I'll refer to the original A as A0 and the other as A1. The game we played was Micro Moonshine. The players are running illegal liquor…
Minor spoilers follow. If you've never played Baldur's Gate 3 before, you might want to consider not reading this post until after your first playthrough. This post records some notes I made during a conversation with Real Angela. Roughly half-way through the game, characters have the option to gain advanced powers. Of these powers, by far the…
We played Soul Raiders again last night. If you're interested, I strongly advise you to look at my write-up of our previous game. That essay has a much better presentation of the game than what I have here. This is the first time we've played the game in which we could not complete the chapter in a…
Well, here we are. When I was going through my first two playthroughs, I kept telling Bill that I would not do an evil playthrough because I don’t like them. But there is the option for “Dark Urge” as an origin character (still a Tav, but with a different storyline than the ones we’ve seen before) and…
Yesterday A, J, M, and I (as in "I" myself as opposed to an anonymizing initial) got together for an afternoon of gaming. It proved to be complicated for an unexpected reason: there was a firefighters' parade in the streets near A&M's home. It took me about an hour to find a route to get to their…
I don't usually put a warning in my blog posts, but I feel I should for this one. Content warning: Discussion of mental illness. Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (SSH2) is a sequel to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (HSS). When I wrote my post on my top-rated games, I'd forgotten about HSS. I've just edited that post to mention…
Now for a dose of reality Video games are not Barbie dolls. When you start a playthrough, the game offers you a choice of which character you want to play: an Origin character or a character of your own design. That's the character who's supposed to be the protagonist of the story. The game is not designed…