Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 8 – Wyll

This is part of my series of posts on Baldur's Gate 3. If you're reading this post without reading the others: I will try to avoid spoilers, but inevitably there will be some. In particular, any links to information on the BG3 wiki or YouTube videos should be regarded as spoiler-laden. I'm not a particularly skilled player.…

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ChatGPT and me

For a lazy Sunday-morning blog post, and in the spirit of how one Googles oneself occasionally, I asked a question of ChatGPT: Tell me about William Seligman at Columbia University William Seligman is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He specializes in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and financial economics. His research interests include the study of financial…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 7 – Gale

In my big Baldur's Gate 3 post, I said that I might update the diary at the end of the post as I continued my playthroughs. Instead, I've decided to write a fresh post for each playthrough, as long I'm interested in documenting my experiences with the game. Caveats I'm not a particularly skilled gamer. If you're…

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Baldur’s Gate 3

This is not a review of Baldur's Gate 3. The game has been reviewed (massively so!), received almost every honor the gaming industry can award, and has been out for several months (after a playtest of many years). This makes it ideal for my series of unimportant reviews. However, I'm doing something else: I'm documenting why I…

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Minor game reviews

I plan to write a long-ish blog post in which I gush about Baldur's Gate 3. Before I start crafting an unnecessary essay about a current game that's been reviewed and praised elsewhere, I feel a desire to wrap up the remaining games in my series: reviews of games that have been released and reviewed so long…

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Vault Story Dice – the cat pictures

A few days ago, I received another box from Awaken Realms: Of course, the important question is: How did the cats react? Awaken Realms' Vault Story Dice are fancy optional dice for use in various games. You can easily make out the boxes that contain the Tainted Grail and Etherfields dice. What's in the other three? Actually,…

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