We reach the main entrance to the temple, and once again there is no OSHA compliance.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 311 – No Railings I
Anime Explorations Episode 5: Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family
This month, Tora, David, and I kick off the inaugural installment of Fate-uary with a discussion of our background with the franchise, and a look at Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family.
Read moreThe Fortress of the Pearl: Book Review
The Fortress of the Pearl is Michael Moorcock, in 1989, writing a book set between Elric of Melnibone (1972) and Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976). The current Elric omnibus collections put this in that space in the chronology in their reading order, while my previous video on the Elric reading order recommended reading it significantly later. Re-reading the book now, in its place at the timeline – I think my assessment is accurate, but not necessarily for the reasons that I thought originally.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 310 – Flaming Flanks II
This time their positioning makes more sense, even if it still fails.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 309 – Flaming Flanks I
We have another fight set up to have the PCs be flanked.
Read moreBook Review: The Warhound and the World’s Pain
It’s time to get back to Michael Moorcock (in the video reviews) with the first of the Von Bek novels.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 308 – Ruins of Fire II
We clean out the next wave of guards.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 307 – Ruins of Fire I
We reach the outside of the temple – I think.
Read moreNettle & Bone: Book Review
Nettle & Bone was this month’s Sword & Laser Book Club pick, and was a tremendously brisk, and very enjoyable read. It also introduced me to a variety of fantasy fiction I hadn’t encountered before – the “Grimcozy”
Read moreBook Review: Brightness Falls from the Air
Of the past few Sword & Laser picks, Brightness Falls from the Air, by James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon ended up being a bit more of a controversial pick – and I definitely get why, as it gets into some squicky subject matter, and not necessarily in an elegant way.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP Part 306 Caldera Combat II
We clean out this fight without getting knocked into the lava.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 305 – Caldera Combat I
We fight way closer to some lava than would actually be safe.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 131
We have another port of a PC first-person shooter to the N64.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 304 – Enter the Inferno II
We deal with enemies who have a height advantage.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 303 – Enter the Inferno I
We begin our run on the Fire Temple.
Read moreRunning a little behind – here are some photos!
So, I’m falling a little behind on my blogging – so instead I’d like to share a few photos I took.
Read moreElric of Melnibone: Book Review
Well, I need to get caught back up with where I was with the Sword & Laser Book Club, in terms of reviews – and that means it’s time to get back into the Elric Saga, with the pick that I ended up recommending (and which a lot of participants bounced off of) – with Elric of Melnibone, the chronologically first novel by Michael Moorcock in Elric’s saga.
There will be spoilers.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 302 – Ice Guardian
We take on the Ice Guardian, and equip the *one* weapon that dropped.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 301 – Three Bridges II
We manage to turn the enemies against each other (a little) and get cross the bridge.
Read moreVlog: Getting Up To Date On the OGL
Things changed a lot since I put my editorial on why the OGL matters – just two days after that video went live in fact. It’s time to go over what had changed, and what my thoughts on the changes are.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 300 – Three Bridges I
We have three bridges across a bottomless chasm with Medusae on the other side.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 299 – Flanked II
It turns out for that kind of flanking plan to work, you need people in the front position who are a little tankier.
Read moreNextGen #32 (August 1997)
We are slowly – but surely – trying to get caught up with where we are in Nintendo Power magazine.
Read moreManga Review: Master Keaton
Naoki Urasawa’s Master Keaton is fascinating to read alongside his later series Monster. If Monster is an HBO prestige television series, Master Keaton feels much more like a syndicated TV series. Both are mysteries, but Monster pushes forward on a tightly plotted course toward its conclusion. At the same time, Master Keaton is willing to tell a collection of more episodic stories, often moving back to a particular status quo at the end of each episode. That’s not bad, it’s just a different approach.
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