Saturday Morning Gaming: The Nemesis System
I’ve been replaying Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War and I am, once again, taken with the Nemesis System they have.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: Before Your Bosses Come Back
My bosses have been out of town for two weeks. Monday, they return.
Sunday Morning! King Lear by William Shakespeare
Returning to it after a few decades, I realize how nightmarish is Shakespeare’s vision of human frailty, madness, and tissue-thin political power.
Weekend Plans Post: Melting, Melting, Melting
A few years back, there was an absolutely brilliant Mutts cartoon that explained how to read the temperature using a cat. Well, here’s how hot it was today…
Saturday Morning Gaming: Stone Age (the board game)
The general theme of the game is that you are a chieftain of a Stone Age tribe and your job is to make sure that your tribe gets the most points. Peacefully, I may add.
Saturday Morning Gaming: It’s the Steam Summer Sale!
They’ve put a bunch of stuff on my wishlist on sale. So I got some stuff.
Sunday Morning! Richard III by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Richard III is a useful reminder of how difficult it is to live under a truly malevolent man when power is centralized in his hands. As if one was needed.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Returning to Gloomhaven
I am replaying Gloomhaven and, seriously, it’s awesome.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Ye Olde Cribbage Club
There’s an imperfect cribbage game on Steam. But it’s the only cribbage game on Steam.
Sunday Morning! “Never Come Morning” by Nelson Algren
It’s hard to transmogrify work and poverty into art. Never Come Morning, by Nelson Algren, probably did accomplish that feat…
Saturday Morning Gaming: Diablo IV Proper
We are officially out of beta with Diablo IV. I played a Necromancer. He played a Sorceress. His wife played a Druid. We beat Act II.
Weekend Plans Post: Lines that Go Unexpectedly Hard
I noted this particular exchange with Maribou who told me “that sounds like Beckett.”
Saturday Morning Gaming: Serial Cleaner
A fun little nostalgic sneaker that tells you to not think so much about it.
Weekend Plans Post: School’s Out
I don’t know about you but I always preferred “I’m Eighteen” over “School’s Out”.
Sunday Morning! What is Literature? A little on Sven Birkerts
We now interrupt your scheduled arrival for a brief existential crisis. (Or, maybe, it’s just like that for me.)
