Weekend Plans Post: The Last Few Normal Weeks of the Year
Management has started talking about how, soon, nobody’s going to be here on the same day.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Invincible (based on the story by Stanislaw Lem)
Stanisław Lem wrote a story in 1964 that *FINALLY* got adapted to the small screen, via video games.
Weekend Plans Post: Thanksgiving Open Thread
There’s just something about sprawling Thanksgiving Day songs.
Sunday Morning! “Napoleon” by Ridley Scott
A film that vividly depicts the great battles of the Napoleonic Wars, while showing the “great man” at their center as a big baby. I call it “emo Napo”.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Circus Electrique
Circus management, kinda. Darkest Dungeon, kinda. Circus Electrique, it’s pretty good.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Liar’s Dice and Lying Pirates
They took Liar’s Dice, an awesome game that is hundreds of years old, and made it even more awesome.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf
I am a sucker for the RPG choose-your-own-adventure books from the 80’s remade into 2020’s video games.
2024 Oscar Projections: Post-Halloween Temperature Check
It is still insanely early, and the makeup of the 2024 Oscars still has plenty room to change between now and nomination morning.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
A choose your own adventure, of sorts.
Weekend Plans Post: They Have Stopped Making My Preferred Detergent
In which Jaybird rants about progress.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Q.U.B.E.
This weeks free games from the Epic Game Store are Q.U.B.E. and Q,U.B.E. 2, a nice little FPS puzzle game obviously inspired by Portal
Saturday Morning Gaming: Video Pinball on Sale at Costco
Costco is selling a fusion videogame/pinball machine with 10, count’em, 10 Star Wars pinball machines on it.
Weekend Plans Post: Crossing the Finish Line
Holy cow. We might have actually finished up a bunch of stuff. (Knock wood.)
Review: The Water Lily Pond
The Water Lily Pond is a 2016 science fiction novel by our own Michael Siegel.
Sunday Morning! “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare
While it’s tempting to see “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare as a gentle story about forgiveness, love, and magic, its central protagonist makes that interpretation very difficult.
