So, the climate in Oregon is acting like it was 2 years ago when everything was on fire again – Portland General Electric is doing targeted power outages in some areas to prevent wildfires, and we are encountering wildfires on the edges of the Portland Metro area – as of this writing, there is a brush fire that recently started in Milo McIver State Park … Continue reading Quick Update: Wildfire Season
Time to move on to a Star Wars book that isn’t actually terrible, as I take a look at the next Young Jedi Knights anthology.
Continue reading “Book Review: Young Jedi Knights – Jedi Sunrise”
The fight swings in our favor, but not without some real difficulty with these status effects.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 214 – Dragons Again III”
Not only do they have enemies that can use AOE poison attacks, but we also are introduced to the Bewitched status effect.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 213 – Dragons Again II”
We have another sequel to a SNES game this issue, with Starfox 64.
Continue reading “Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 127”
We face off with a few dragons, and forgot to bring any of our Dragoons.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 212 – Dragons Again I”
We finally conclude this battle so we can move on to the next area.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 211 – Watch Your Step VI”
This weekend is Worldcon, and several weeks before the convention (basically the week before I got COVID), I finished reading the last of the novels that were up for Hugo Awards that weren’t part of a series that I hadn’t already started reading – She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan – a novel inspired by wuxia fiction, inspired by the rise of the Hongwu Emperor. It’s an… interesting book, but one which had some points that I stumbled over.
Continue reading “She Who Became the Sun: Book Review”
Things start going better, as we turn the fight around.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 210 – Watch Your Step V”
We try to get Azelstan to some tarot cards for the stat buffs.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 209 – Watch Your Step IV”
I’m putting the next installment of the Nintendo Power Retrospectives back a week to review another of this year’s Hugo Nominees before this year’s Worldcon (though after the voting deadline).
Continue reading “Book Review: Project Hail Mary”
Since our goal is, ultimately, to level up Azelstan, I break out the Forbidden Technique.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 208 – Watch Your Step III”
We finally make contact with the enemy monsters.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 207 – Watch Your Step II”So, I got COVID-19 this past week (specifically starting probably around 8/20), and I’ve been sick and varying degrees of bed-ridden all week. Obviously, this has impacted my ability to keep to my regular schedule of posts (outside of ones that I had scheduled in advance), so consider this my explanation. I will do a post getting into my experiences later, but for now, consider … Continue reading I have COVID
We continue to a more perilous map.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 206 – Watch Your Step I”
We clear out the next group of undead and have another conversation with Azelstan.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 205 – Rocky Situation IV”
The late Alan Grant introduces a new villain to AzBat’s Rogue’s gallery, with an interesting design, but possibly a poor choice of names.
Continue reading “Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightquest – The Crusade Part 3”
We finally start to push the enemy back.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 204 – Rocky Situation III”
Things start going very badly.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 203 – Rocky Situation II”
It is to my great shock that I did not review the first season of Komi Can’t Communicate on this blog. Having now also seen the show’s second season, I think I’m way past due to give this show a review, so it’s time to review both of those seasons.
Continue reading “Komi Can’t Communicate: Season 1 & 2 – Anime Review”
A long time back I checked out the Spriggan anime film from the library, on the merits of Katsuhiro Otomo’s involvement in the film in a supervisory position. When I learned that the manga series was getting revisited with a new anime series from David Production on Netflix, I figured this was worth checking out. While the series itself is something of a mixed bat, there is some fun to be had here.
Continue reading “Spriggan (2022): Anime Review”
This time we have golems, liches, and undead that can cause petrification.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 202 – Rocky Situation I”
We clear out this fight and prepare to move on.
Continue reading “Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 201 – More Undead IV”
Our third documentary review for this month is a look at a documentary on the history of the art of Dungeons & Dragons, with a focus on the TSR years of the game.
Continue reading “Documentary Review: Eye of the Beholder – The Art of Dungeons & Dragons”