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Okay so … I didn’t actually have 120 pages left, it was more like 30 pages and then 90 pages of footnotes, acknowledgements and a very healthy index. I’m only over Chicago stuck in a patch of very bouncy turbulence (yay). This was very well researched and narrated, giving us insight into the games we’ve been playing throughout our entire relationship! I think Catrena and I…
I’m happy that I finished Sin City because now I have time to keep reading “Itchy/Tasty”, a book that I’m woefully behind on finishing. I think I’ve got over a 100 pages left.
I’m sitting here on a plane at 35,000 feet, halfway to my destination (more specifically, I’m somewhere in the sky way above Des Moines), and I’m kicking myself for not bringing an additional book with me. I just got Frank Miller’s Sin City the other day and thought it would be the perfect thing to take with me on this trip. I want something that can captivate me and help…
Good Luck! Here we are in the year of our lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six and I am playing a remake of the 1997 classic, Star Fox 64. I personally think this was a really smart decision on Nintendo’s part, because they need to let Fox out of his cage every few years to perform the great story of his dad’s demise or else he starts to chew on the bars and knock his food and water dishes…
I just realized something… something I hadn’t thought about until now. I was googli…er… duckduckgo-ing my website, as one does, and on page 3 of the results I started to notice lots of my pages from this site popping up. But they are all title “CyberBuffalo Industries” because way way way back when in 2024, as I was putting this template together, I never…
Whenever I’m about to get really busy, I decide to take a sunday and cram it full of as many video games as possible, even though I know I’m not going to be able to finish them all in a timely manner. I’m still playing Resident Evil Remake as well as Xenoblade Chronicles but a recent mail-call has brought to me a game that I’ve wanted to play for a while, even before it was…
Today is CyberBuffalo day! June 20th, apparently, is the day I’ve decided is the official anniversary of this blog. Two years! I’m proud that I’ve used and maintained this for that long. So to anyone who may be following along, to those denizens of the net that still use RSS or check in to a website every now and again, thank you and happy CyberBuffalo day.
Both Catrena & I are reading Itchy, Tasty , the defacto book on the history of the Resident Evil franchise, written and researched by Alex Aniel . It’s good so far, though it does, for whatever reason, spoil the ever loving shit out of CODE: Veronica. And since we’ve maintained a healthy fixation on RE I’ve decided that it was time for us to play the Remake of RE1. I don’t…
Well well well look at that, it’s once again time for every gaming company to do their bi-annual “announcement dump”. And right during not only my birthday, but also while I may have been the busiest in the history of being busy. And as much as I kind of hate Geoff K, I’m a sucker for a dump of trailers and game announcements, it gives us something to look forward to and…
As I’m yet again one year older I, as a forty-something year old man, hold certain truths to be true and one of those truisms is that god is dead! BUT sometimes you eat blue cheese AND bacon together and wonder if you’ve been wrong this whole time!
I’m getting caught up on the State of Play and this God of War spin-off game seems cool, the combat looks better to me than the two most recent GoW games but I don’t know if I want to watch 20 uninterrupted minutes of the game. Especially since this is the first 20 minutes of the game, I’ll probably play this at some point (well maybe not with PS5 prices what they are).
Oh boy I’m behind on the website. Catrena and I had a bear of an April - no work, lots of miserable life stuff which has all been resolved . But now we’re well into May which is the opposite - all work with a smattering of good life stuff (and some colds). But I’ve finally quit dragging it out and put a pin in Resident Evil 6 as well as started two new games. I’ve also been…
FINALLY. I’ve been dancing around this since I picked it up 2 or 3 years ago at Gamestop for 14.99. One of PlatinumGames’ licensed games, often described as a hidden gem and one hell of a hack and slash… Transformers: Devastation! That’s right, it’s time for Autobots to Roll Out! And… that is the extent of what I know about The Tranformers. Well that’s…
I have been on a big comic book recently. Since Local Man ended I’ve been bouncing around between series, checking out new series if I find them interesting while also being faithful to other series that are on my pull list. One series that popped onto my radar was a reboot of the 90s Image classic “The Darkness” by Marc Silvestri. They had apparently rebooted Witchblade a year…
Yesterday I received a text message from a friend; “Dunno if you’ve been following the Artemis Mission. They’re about to come around from the moon orbit. Youtube.” I had been following the space mission a little… but not too closely. You remember that old Simpsons bit about the family anxiously rushing to pull the plug on the television to avoid being subjected to a…
Yesterday was Easter and what better way to celebrate the regeneration of Jesus H. Christ than to play a scary ghost story, a favorite passtime of his according to songs sung around his birthday. We had a lovely brunch at our friend’s house. There was Pizza Rustica and green bean casserole and deviled eggs and a cocktail made out of peeps, amongst other things. It was quite lovely, all…
Okay - I know I just finished Requiem yesterday but I’m under the weather and Catrena and I got to talking and oops we started Resident Evil 6. After some xbox(tm) brand fuckery, we got both of us signed in and hooked up and away we went, on to see the adventures of Leon and Helena and who-else? Who knows! Catrena and I played through some of this game back in 2020 on the Xbox 360. I…
God I love original, old school Law and Order so much. For the first 5 or 6 seasons at least, every person on the cast is just incredible. Absolute cinema shit.
It’s been a long, winding, out-of-order road to get here but tonight we cracked open that Resident Evil Generation Pack for the Switch 2, popped in the Game-Key Card™, started the download and made popcorn. Our efforts of pushing through RE4 and the two remakes, RE2 & RE3 have finally paid off - the saga of Raccoon City and Leon Kennedy are about to conclude… probably. I never get fed…
Yes, I do very much want to play Resident Evil Requiem, but after finishing RE2R, I felt I owed it to ourselves to play through Resident Evil 3. Besides, I’ve seen people calling this a DLC to RE2 so how hard could it be? How long could it actually be? How much more annoying could Nemesis be compared to Mr. X?? Right away I can see how this game is trying to differentiate itself from RE2 and…
We’ve had a stressful week, first starting with the return from the mountains for a weekend away with friends to celebrate a friends’ birthday. With this return the cats have been running around like crazy, just being absolue wild-men starting at 3 or 4 in the morning. It’s also blazingly hot here - as I type this up on March 19th, we are in our 5th? 6th? My god is it seven -…
Okay fuck it lets play Resident Evil 2 - but the remake this time. I’ve had it sitting on my shelf since I bought the PS4 pro a couple of years ago and, seriously, I’m not immune to being swept up in Resident Evil fever - let’s see how this Leon Kennedy business starts. I’ve got RE9: Requiem on that shelf now too, so since we played Resident Evil 4 , I might as well round…
When I woke up from surgery last week, it was the same day that everyone started freaking out about Resident Evil Requiem and for whatever reason, my drug addled, groggy ass brain decided that I needed to buy that Resident Evil Generation Pack that I should have preordered because its a good value in a nice looking package. But apparently everyone else had the same idea. But after 3 days of…
I’m back on the couch today having overdone it from my surgery yesterday and I needed a game. At some point last night, possibly in the throes of a dream, I was reminded that a Platinumgames developed Final Fantasy existed and woke up thinking about playing that. But I don’t own FF16… yet, so I grabbed the next best thing sitting on my unplayed shelf… Devil May Cry 5! The…
Now that I’ve finished Resident Evil 4 , I wanted to go back to what spawned that interest in the first place, Shadows of the Damned! Shinji Mikami and Suda51 team up to create a buddy comedy romp through hell. And what a romp! I’ve already played this game before, right when the remaster came out, but something happened and I didn’t do any kind of write up for it. This also…
I guess with the announcement that Yoko Taro & company are going to continue the Evangelion anime/series I finally need to watch it. I don’t know why this is a popular thing that I’ve skirted around but its never really come into my sphere of influence. You know, with the exception of every Japanese artist that I admire citing is as a source of inspiration and all that.
I am on a Suda51 kick currently, hot off the heels of a play through of Romeo Is A Dead Man, and while watching a video about the Shadows of the Damned Remake, I almost sat down and started a new file on that… but I gave the choice to Catrena and I think we were both excited about Resident Evil 4. I know I’ve noodled around with it on the Wii and the GameCube, but I don’t think…
Man, since finishing and obsessing over Romeo Is A Dead Man , I’ve been reading up on and watching videos about Grasshopper Manufacture and Kill The Past. What an amazing colleciton of games. I wanted to play through No More Heroes 1-3 + TSA before RIADM came out but I just didn’t have the time. I think I’m going to noodle around those games again after I get the (or fail to get…
I’ve started a bunch of games recently and I JUST realized that I hadn’t pushed an update to the website. I’ve been so engrossed with Romeo is a Dead Man that I haven’t stopped to write more or update any of the games pages. And since I haven’t been paying attention I realized what I HAD written wasn’t pushed live so I’m doing that now. Long story short -…
TODAY… IS A VERY SPECIAL DAY. Today, a new game… a Suda51 game… a brand. new. Suda51 game was released… ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN . WHAT A TITLE! I’m very excited about this, as you may or may not know I think Goichi Suda is one of the most interesting and creative video game designers working today. He makes games that are never ashamed of being video games, they try…
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, Catrena & I have been pretty busy the past few weeks and we’re so excited for a lazy day. Of course, to me this means looking through my backlog and I decided to finally tackle a game that I’ve had on my Switch for a while … 1000xRESIST! Often cited as a piece of work inspired by DrakeNier, I’m excited to see what this award winning game has…
I’ve always wanted to read this and finally, as I take a break from the Walking Dead compendiums and TV show, I decided to pull out The Crow collection. It felt like it would offer a nice reprieve from the zombie apocalypse but also usher in a continuance of the black and white comic. Now having read through it twice, I found myself lingering on the interstitial chapters -the poetry and…
Just as I published my diary documenting my journey choosing photo management software, Apple released the new “Creator Suite,” a bundle of subscription software that they previously would have either given you for free or sold you for a flat rate. And the reasoning for this change is the integration of AI tools (provided by openAI, mind you) and soft-locking templates behind the…
The second volume was just as compelling as the first one! I really sped through it, even though I loosely knew the story from the show! We’ve slowed down on the show recently so as I move into the third compendium I will probably start reading beyond my knowledge in the show, which is okay! A realization I had while watching the show and comparing it to the books; the show is toxic…
As I wrote in one of the reviews about the games I recently finished, I’ve been completely immersed into the world of The Walking Dead . I’m still on Season 5 of the show, I’ve finished two of the four Telltale games and now, I’ve read the first compendium. This volume collects issues 1-48 of the original run plus a special one-off Morgan-centric one-shot. It has been very…
I’ve spent a lot of my life, adolescent and adult, taking photographs. I’m a fan of the entire process, from the mechanics of a camera to the chemistry of film to the physics of why a digital camera sensor even works . It’s easily my favorite hobby with video games being a close second, woodworking the third and maybe writing/this website would be the fourth. I’ve spent a…
Catrena and I are steeping hard in The Walking Dead franchise, right now, as we’re almost to the end of Season 4. It’s raining today and after a few bouts of chores around the house we decided to settle in and start Season 2 of the game. Right away the tone of this season is much more grim than the beginning of the first. The father of our pregnant traveling companion is shot in a…
Oh god dammit. Jesus my god what the fuck? After we finished Little Hope we kept the ball rolling and bought Seasons 1, 2 & 3 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead . I think I played a demo of this on the iPad years ago but outside of that I’ve seen some interent memes with Clem but that’s about it. Sometimes I’m surprised that things that have been around forever have not been…
Merry Christmas from CyberBuffalo & AbraCatrena! Each year we do a Halloween and Christmas card and this year I decided to do a little breakdown on how we made it. Our cards are GENERALLY made up of multiple photos that I will comp together using Affinity Photo, this is generally because we’re only 2 people and photographing cats is hard.
Merry merry! It’s Christmas today and part of the fun is Christmas, for us anyway, is eating a big breakfast, knocking back a bottle of bubbly with a hint of orange juice and staying in your pajamas all day while fiddling with your presents. And when we want a change from all that fiddling we turn to our favorite friend, video games. This year we didn’t see any games under the tree but…
I just started playing Chibi-Robo! on the Switch 2 and as I’m putting together the game page entry I had a thought.. to crop or not to crop? The game is 4:3 and the way the Switch emulators work, they put these unchangeable, hideous borders around the games. And I think that I want to crop them out, but that seems like it could be a lot of work. It also isn’t an accurate representation…
When it was announced that Nintendo was finally dusting off the old purple console and bringing Gamecube games to the Switch Online Service, there were a handful of games that I was hoping to see ported over and Chibi-Robo! is one of them. It’s been on my list of games that I had wanted to explore for years but never got around to. So today, with an impending rain storm on the horizon, as…
I’m just now realizing that I’m woefully behind on posting photos to the gallery section. I’ve got stuff developed going back to this time last year, including photos we took in mexico when we got engaged (we’re married now lol). Also while looking through my analog galleries I’m realizing that I need to start keeping track of which film stock I’m shooting on.…
When looking for interesting non-fiction books to read in an effort to improve my own journaling, I was excited to find Communion , a UFO book. It’s a combination of the author’s first hand events and transcriptions of hypnotherapy sessions, hoping to unearth more memories of those same events. It’s all over the place and unfortunately the described events aren’t actually…
Another day in 2025, another 35mm film camera has been released. Today we’re talking about the Kodak Snapic A1! It sports a 3-element 25mm glass lens, 1/100s fixed shutter speed, f9.5 aperture, multiple exposures and a built in flash. Interestingly, what separates this from the other recent Kodak cameras, is the auto-advance and powered rewind. At 99$ I think there’s a lot to like…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the cameras in my collection that I’m not using - and can’t really use, for that matter. A lot of this is my polaroid collection. My main draw to instant photography was always packfilm. The cameras were cool, the process was really interesting and the results were always amazing. There was a time when I would find a polaroid packfilm camera at any…
Two games in 24 hours what’s happening over here?! Perhaps I’m finally getting my groove back, or maybe it’s that I heard MONACA is doing the music for Age of Imprisonment and since Catrena & I have played the other Warriors games , we decided this rainy Friday would be the perfect day to start Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. I liked the last Hyrule Warriors game, and I…
Wow what a break from any kind of games that was! But there could really be no better reason, Catrena and I got married! I’m not going to get too deep into now but planning a wedding really took a lot of my time, focus and creative energy! So much so that I neglected my website. But a good website isn’t something that has any feelings or knows when its being used too much or too…
I read this morning that Lomography has announced a new 35mm film camera that has a rather exciting feature set. It’s a small, compact, full frame camera - it feels funny to have to qualify that in 2025 but there have been like three new half-frame cameras sent to market recently, four if you include that insane fuji x-half , which yes is digital but still - zone AND auto-focus and shutter…
Wedding RSVP’s I’m getting married, it’s something I don’t know if I’ve really talked about too much on here, mostly because I’ve tried to not get overly personal, not to say that I haven’t been emotional or talked about things that have occurred to me personally, because I have. I’m also not hiding my identity, though I’m not necessarily…