Category: Writer’s Blog

I’m writing this blog entry later than usual since after the comic was done, Dawn and I decided to take a break and watch Godzilla vs. Kong. At home, mind you… by this time tomorrow we should have our second […]
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Where Dungeons and Dragons or really almost any RPG is concerned, the operating principle for the game master is to prepare to be unprepared. Players will almost always do something undreamt of in your philosophy. Is it good as any […]
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Happy news for your humble proprietors… since Dawn and I work our day jobs as part of California’s educational system we qualified to get our COVID vaccinations done. First shot was last Wednesday, second will be early April. We’ll still […]
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I’ve been holding off writing about Marvel’s Wandvision because for once I wanted to wait until the series was done before giving any thoughts. A novel concept for me with my long history of early impressions here in this blog, […]
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A friend recently linked me to this blog post as possibly “relevant to my interests.” She was, of course, correct. What a Western Isn’t It’s not the easiest read and perhaps also not the clearest in terms of what the […]
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So I ended up binge playing the RE2 and RE3 remkes all the way through and then went back to RE7. And just recently I finished RE7, and… Holy crap, that was good. That was an experience. I went in […]
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The Resident Evil franchise from Capcom is one of the granddaddys of the survival horror genre in video games, not to mention zombies.  Full disclosure that I never played the original 1996 game beyond a short demo, which was enough […]
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“Get back on topic!” said the handful of readers of this blog. Maybe. So to assuage this no doubt nonexistent controversy, I’m going to mention a few zombie video games in development. One I’ve played a demo of, the others […]
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Posting about Control feels a bit like being one of those reviewers who had to give their thoughts on Wandavision based on the first three episodes they were provided by Marvel. It’s not presented in the trappings of a sitcom […]
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I’ve been a fan of the Tomb Raider franchise since all the way back to Lara Croft’s first debut in 1996. And not just because of the tiddies. I mean honestly, the way things started it’s kind of amazing to […]
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Sometimes a good trailer is all it takes to make me buy a game. No, that’s not true. But it helps. If a game floats across my Steam feed (whose algorithms might be getting scarily accurate at showing me things […]
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Given the current subject of the comic it would be timely to discuss the underlying assumptions of human currency, but I’m going to save that for another time. I said last week I wanted to just talk games for awhile […]
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So here I am back at the ol’ tiller, figuratively speaking. It feels like we got a headstart on the mess that was 2020 since at least half of our 2019 was a mess, but at this point I’m going […]
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You know what’s wonderful about the Internet? You can type a word and “pronunciation” into Google and come up with an audio file of people speaking it. That’s not something I had as a kid, and oh how my reading […]
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There are very few sources I trust for entertainment news, especially given today’s emphasis on scoop over substance, but The Hollywood Reporter is one of them. If it’s a headline from them, it tends to be vetted and accurate and […]
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I used to have a t-shirt that said, “I feel much better now that I’ve lost all hope.” Pretty nihilistic, eh? But sometimes, it’s a mood. Possibly for 2020, it’s even a roadmap for clinging to sanity. For example, I’ve […]
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I feel a bit like an oracle. Remember how we decided to take this week off for, among other reasons, just “general stress relief“? Well, 2020 was not having any of that! I’m an oracle insofar as that if we […]
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I’ve gushed about The Mandalorian already, and I’m pleased that it has continued to reward my faith. Turns out Dave Filoni is a really good storyteller. He not only has an encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation for Star Wars canon that […]
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Writers are kind of like the gods of their creations. We speak sometimes of characters going “off script” and writing themselves against our expectations, but let’s face it, if we really wanted to we could smite that free will right […]
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So Among Us has been a bit of a fad lately. It’s basically a computer version of the classic Werewolf-style games where one (or sometimes two) people are secretly working to kill the rest of the group while the villagers […]
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