Saturday Morning Gaming: Playing with Craiyon
Well, there’s good news! There’s an AI tool out there that is usable RIGHT NOW called “Craiyon” and you don’t have to wait forever to get your picture.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: Stranger Things Season The Third
When we first saw the mall in Stranger Things Season 3, I was hit with a huge wave of nostalgia. Seeing all of the old shops and the fact that even the escalators were full and everybody was running around and seeing each other?
Saturday Morning Gaming: A Major Update to Into The Breach! FOR FREE!!!
Into the Breach got a major update on Tuesday!
Sunday Morning! “Salvage the Bones” by Jesmyn Ward
I wanted to write about Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones for a few reasons, including its recent challenge in North Carolina schools
Saturday Morning Gaming: Syndicate (1993)
Back in 1993, there was a brilliant game called Syndicate.
Sunday Morning: “Bad Day at Black Rock” by John Sturges
Bad Day at Black Rock is one film that straddles genres: its setting is Western and its storyline is noir.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Last Zachtronics Game
This is the last Zachtronics game. Maybe I should go back to Magnum Opus and see if I can’t make that one that made me ragequit last time…
Weekend Plans Post: Perhaps, finally, a quiet weekend?
After a fairly tumultuous start, perhaps summer will start to slow down
Sunday Morning! “Modern Love” by Constance DeJong
A recovered Constance DeJong novel from late 70s NYC that overflows its banks and exhausts all possibilities without exhausting the reader like many experimental novels do.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Iratus Lord of the Dead
Are you tired of playing the good guy? Well, Iratus makes you the necromancer. (For free this week!)
Weekend Plans Post: The 4th of July and Stranger Things
“You know that thing where you make the viewers at home cringe? WE SHOULD DO THAT!”, it feels like they’re saying.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Steam Summer Sale and Fake Games
Steam is having its summer sale! Also musings on fake games.
Saturday Morning Gaming: So You’re Creating a Character
Elder Scrolls II is not only free, it had the best character creation, like, ever.
Weekend Plans Post: Saying Goodbye
We’re cleaning house. We found an old box that hadn’t been opened since 2003. With VCR Tapes. We opened it.
Sunday Morning! “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
In recent weeks, Colson Whitehead has become the writer who leaves me thinking “Man, how does he get his novels to go like that?!”
Saturday Morning Gaming: Yahtzee
Yesterday, I taught a friend Yahtzee. He moved from “what’s the big deal?” to “oh no” somewhere around “three of a kind”.
Sunday Morning! “Berg” by Ann Quin
Berg seems to go through a crisis of his own. Does he really want to kill this stranger? Or does he want to seduce the man’s mistress?
