No, I don’t mean video games about juggling. I mean the way that I play video games is pure chaos. I have a tendency to play multiple games simultaneously. I also have a tendency to want to check out new things constantly. This often leads to me trying to play too many games at the same time which invariably leads to some games, thru no fault of their own, falling to the wayside.
I was recently coerced and bamboozled into reactivating my Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) account. The last (?) time I had played I made a new character and started on a new server and quickly learned that, while FFXIV does a pretty great job at cross-server play, cross-region play is so convoluted it may as well be non-existent. On this go around the first thing I did was pack up Lizzy’s belongings…
After having daily driven Linux on my gaming desktop for a few years now I’ve found a handful of utility programs that have been useful to me that I feel may not be talked about very much. Nothing fancy or flashy here, just some solid programs that I use in my typical day-to-day routine.
My experience with Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (XC2) was very similar to the time I spent with the first game. Not so much in story or gameplay, but more in the way that I fell off of both games pretty hard a few hours into them. After a short time away I returned to find out that I’d stopped right before each game started to really take off. Both games then proceeded to set their hooks deep into me…
I’ve never exactly made it a secret that one of my favorite consoles of all time was the Nintendo 3DS, but I also had never owned or even held an original sized version. I’ve personally owned an original 3DS XL as well as a New 2DS XL because bigger is always better, right? But recently I’ve been curious.
I recently picked up a PocketBook ereader. I’ve been a fan of ereaders since the early days of the Nook, back when it still had the small touchscreen for device management. I’ve been thru several Nook iterations as well as a few Kindle models since. After Amazon’s recent actions to further lock down their hardware I decided to look for something that wasn’t tied so tightly to a major bookseller’s…
We’ve been spending the past two weeks rearranging our office space at home, and while I went into it knowing how much work it would entail, it has somehow managed to be even more involved than I had expected.
I’ve been working my way thru The Wheel of Time book series and once again Nynaeve stands out as not only one of my favorite characters in the series but possibly of any series that I’ve read to date. Her progression thru her character arc is great and it feels like every single bit of it is has been hard fought and earned. Mild spoilers possible ahead.
I recently finished up the first chapter of Arknights: Endfield, or at least the big boss battle at the end of the first chapter. After my previous post about hopping games I really wasn’t expecting one of the gacha games to be the one that would capture my attention, but here we are. Am I still in the honeymoon period? Probably, but Endfield has managed to hold my attention longer than a lot of…
I’ve always heard that, weather-wise, March is supposed to either come in like a lion and go out like a lamb or vice versa. This March, however, seemed more akin to a bipolar hyena than either a lion or a lamb.
Well, it’s certainly been a minute now, hasn’t it?
For the past year or so I’ve been running Badger Disaster Gaming on YouTube as well as co-hosting the Pages and Pixels podcast which focused on books and video games. We recently made the decision to shut both down.
Until recently we had a nice little TV set up in our office on top of one of those cube organizer things. It was a Roku TV so that we could watch whatever we would want on any of the streaming services without an external box. We had a small soundbar hooked up to it since built in speakers are notoriously awful, and we also had a Switch dock set up in case one of us wanted to play some games while…
Spring has finally sprung here in the mountains and we are starting to experience somewhat consistently warm temperatures. Things are starting to green up, I’ve switched to Linux, birds are starting to chirp, I’ve torn down and put up a shed, and the neighbor has begun his incessant mowing. Wait, what?
In the middle of trying to get thru the dark and miserable parts of winter, the most reliable meteorologist on the planet, the groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil, exited his home, saw his shadow, and predicted another six weeks of winter. I’m sure all of the cameras, lights, and people had absolutely nothing to do with it.
After a great deal of personal consideration and a few recent conversations with other streamers I’ve pretty much made the decision to stop streaming moving forward. I’ve balanced what I want to focus on with what and how other people approach streaming and have realized that I much prefer making videos over streaming and that it would probably be beneficial to drop streaming altogether to focus…
So much new stuff (or at least new to me) has come out recently and I’m excited to dive deeper into some of it and to share all of it with everyone I know. Loudly, aggressively, and regardless of whether they are interested or not.