Here is part of a 12-year-old story about an orc with a big butt

While going through some super old documents, I scrounged up this short story I started, but never finished. It is about an orc with a gigantic butt. I have no idea what to do with it, so now it’s your problem.

King Fat-Arse

There is a word in High Draconic which, if you had […]

Here is a twenty-year-old short story about a mermaid sniper.

Hello, I have not updated this blog in a very long time. Please enjoy this short story I wrote in 2004 which I came across last month while going through some stuff on a very, very old laptop. I think I was reading quite a lot of Chuck Palahniuk at the time. I do […]

Tunic Sucks, Don’t Buy It

Have you played with this Human Benchmark website? The idea is it can measure your reaction time, within the bounds of your monitor’s refresh rate. You wait until the screen turns green, and then click as fast as you can. The website takes your average over five clicks and calls that your reaction time, in […]

Centaurworld

Over the past few days I binged all of the Netflix cartoon Centaurworld. The quickest way to describe this show would be something like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with the adventure stakes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, packaged as an operatic.

It was fine. It falls cleanly short of great. It will have […]

Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye

Outer Wilds OST – Travelers (All Instruments Join) [1 Hour]

I had this playing the entire time I wrote this post, and thought maybe you’d enjoy playing it as you read.

Throughout this post I’m going to refer to Outer Wilds and it’s DLC expansion, Echoes of the Eye, as two different games. In […]

Cracked.com’s article about DMing is terrible and I hate it.

Do you remember that show The Big Bang Theory? It got recommended to me by every non-nerd person in my life, who was certain I would absolutely love it. Which seems weird, right? Usually it’s the nerd-people who are enthusiastic about their recommendations, but there wasn’t much overlap between this sitcom-for-nerds and actual nerds I […]

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light

Me and Fire Emblem are not buds.

Strike one: these games are tactical RPGs. I don’t hate TRPGs, exactly, but I’ve liked and completed far fewer than I’ve gotten bored with and quit. I love Final Fantasy Tactics, as any right-thinking person, but it doesn’t crack my list of top ten Final Fantasy games.

Strike […]

The Lightning Saga Remastered (Coming Soon to PS5!)

This is all hypothetical. I’m sorry if you Googled that and it popped up and you clicked the link thinking maybe I had some news the rest of the games industry didn’t. I don’t. But this year I played through Final Fantasy VIII Remastered and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age and Final Fantasy VII […]

18 Adventurers or, An Exercise in D&D Alignment

A party of 18 adventurers find themselves in a bit of a moral quandary.

They had been adventuring in and around a rustic village and have earned some well-deserved renown amongst the townsfolk. Every so often one farmer or another living on the village’s outskirts complains of bizarre livestock mutilations. The village elders (some of […]

The Almost-Perfect Save: An Ill-Advised Final Fantasy Catastrophe

I recently started leaning hard into streaming again. I have to make it a habit again or I’m afraid I’ll just fall off the Internet forever.

I decided to embark on a probably year-long journey to get as close to a perfect save as reasonably possible, with maxed-out mostly-everything, in as many Final Fantasy games […]