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Personally I find making social plays to be the most satisfying part of playing Clocktower — it feels really cool to pull off a purely social gambit that makes or breaks the game for your team. When you’re on the Evil team I think one thing that can be overlooked is understanding that how much you are trusted can impact your play, so I wanted to dive into that in this post! Before we continue: a…
Well well well, another year in the books. Whilst things continue to get increasingly unnerving from a political standpoint, there were definitely some bright spots this year, and so I'm back (yes, I remembered that this blog exists) with an array of pointless and arbitrary awards to honour the good, the bad, and the bizarre from this year! Game of the Year Misericorde Volume 2: White Wool and…
When somebody asks me about my music taste, I always struggle to articulate what it is. I definitely like music, I spend a lot of time listening to it and it makes long train journeys pass infinitely faster. But there’s not really a particular genre or a well-known artist I can point at and say “Oh, you know them ”? The only logical thing to do then, is to try and pick five songs I really really…
I've recently designed a script for Blood on the Clocktower (if you don't know what that is, this post may be lost on you, but I implore you to check it out here ) called "The Rose Bride" that has been a surprise hit with the groups that I've run it for. I thought I'd make a post going through my decision making when designing the script because some people might find it interesting, but mostly…
So I recently did a Draftlocke (that is, a Nuzlocke challenge where we each drafted fourteen Pokémon from a pool) on a Discord server I'm on, and it was a lot of fun! I ended up winning the challenge with zero deaths, and I thought it would be fun to take a look at my picks and talk about what worked, what didn't and what I didn't expect. Here's the pool we were drafting from: And here's my box,…
Well, it's been quite a year. In an effort to distract myself from, well, everything that was going on this year, I consumed quite a bit of media! So I wanted to take the opportunity to honour the good and the not so good, with an array of arbitrary categories that I made up so I could talk about the various games, movies, and music that left an impression on me. So, without further ado, the First…
Note: this is an archived post orginally posted on cohost With the dust settling on Scarlet and Violet's release, there exist, broadly, two camps of players: those for who the rampant technical issues and lack of polish irreparably damaged their experience with the game, and those who enjoyed it despite them. I fall firmly into the latter camp. Pokémon Scarlet is the most fun I've had with a…
This is an archived post, originally posted on cohost When I was thirteen, I watched a 1-hour special where self-proclaimed "psychological illusionist" Derren Brown, appeared to manipulate ordinary people to commit an armed robbery. The show was called The Heist and you can watch it here on Youtube. It makes for compelling viewing even to this day, and I recommend giving it a watch if this article…
Note: This is a post from my archives. Originally posted on cohost So I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 (yeah, I know, but I'm a sucker for cyberpunk aesthetics and I'd heard good things from some trusted people, especially about the DLC) and I'm having a good time with it so far! But there is one mission in particular that has design so egregiously bad that I had to post about it. There will be no…
This is a post from my archives. Originally Posted on Medium. When I was a kid I did a very silly Pokémon Sapphire challenge — complete the game using only a Zigzagoon. It sounds difficult but honestly, it wasn't really. Zigzagoon has a surprisingly wide movepool and decent attacking stats, so, with a little overleveling, the Elite Four fell with relative ease. So I got to thinking, what would be…