So Kyle and I have both discovered that trying to answer deep and meaningful questions while playing either a tabeltop or video game can be somewhat challenging because you can't really focus on either the way you need to to be succesful.  It's dificult for me to gauge how much the babble translates into something entertaining to other people, to ( Read more... )

So i have a game in Endless Mode and a game in Endless Plus mode that i can now run infinitely unless i make a really stupid mistake.  Here's what i feel are the most key components to beating the game after *murmur murmur* hours of gameplay.

Initial configuration:Doctor Xu is an absolute must.  The ability to crack open safes and to permanently ( Read more... )

i don't play a lot of video games these days, but i do like to support the charity Humble Bundle, particularly since the bundles usually include some pretty great games. The Swapper wasn't the main reason i got Humble Bundle 11, but my brother recommended that i play it, and i'm glad that he did because it's probably one of the best video games ( Read more... )

when i first started playing about 3-4 months ago, i didn't really understand what was going on, nor exactly what the fuss was about. not that it wasn't interesting or fun - i liked it well enough even though i didn't get it, but it wasn't something that i felt i could get particularly invested in.

two things changed that. one was the ( Read more... )

played more JSJ today but with some of the custom settings. We started off with teams, basically set up two teams of 3 pitted against each other and did a round robin with all teams. I also set it for each person having three lives with 5s of 'dead time' in between. We also played free for all but with five lives with 2s of 'dead time' in ( Read more... )

I've been playing this game pretty obsessively for the past couple of weeks and am only now putting it into more of a background activity for my free time. It's a pretty wonderful piece of work - the detail that went into not just the gameplay elements but also the entire user experience - the UI, the mechanics, the story and encounters detail, ( Read more... )

last night, three things happened:

1. I finished the first draft of Moon of Eris. It's been mostly done, but crazy stuff at work has been crazy and was not putting me in a space to finish the piece for the past couple of weeks. I'm pretty happy with the work overall, but the ending might need some tweaking for pacing purposes, and i still ( Read more... )

i wasn't very successful at playing the game the few times i got a chance to in Oregon, but i just played for about a half hour with Caylie and Danny and i've got a much better handle on what to do with my body when attacked and how to attack without losing. i'm still not great at it, but it's a start.

At its basic level, the game just doesn't ( Read more... )

i feel like i've been fairly absent on social media in the past couple of weeks. half of the reason is that i just have a ton of crap going on both workwise and personal projectwise, and the other half is that since purchasing humble bundle 9 i've been spending a lot of time playing FTL.

the FTL obsession is wearing off some, though, so i'll ( Read more... )

There are two bars that Mark and i go to after work sometimes to catch a drink - Finns is the more recent one and has become one of my favorite bars. Roberts is where we used to go to, and for variety sake because we've been to Finns a lot lately, we went to Roberts for the first time in a while.

Roberts is a drinkers bar - there's a pool table ( Read more... )