I worked on Dark Souls this weekend, and made some good progress. I spent a lot of time trying to defeat an enemy that (maybe) I wasn't really ready to beat yet, as he could one-shot me if I was unlucky ( Read more... )

We had our date night last night, went out for fish & chips, and then saw 50 / 50 at Westmount last night.

50 / 50 may have been the most evokitive movie I've seen all year.

Moammar Gadhafi dead, Libyan PM says

Wowzers

Game idea: The player characters are people in the modern day, as weird shit starts to take place in the world. Norse-style fae and monsters begin to appear ( Read more... )

I finished Back to the Future: The Game last night ( Read more... )

I have been revisiting Breath of Fire IV for the PlayStation, after reading a GameSpite Quarterly article.

I'm struck here, as I was struck with Final Fantasy IX, about how playable these games still are. In particular, I enjoy how the powers one picks up in this game are more like puzzle pieces that the player is left to assemble than ( Read more... )

To do: Thinking about one-roll resolution of conflicts in Fate.

Edit, 1:07PM: What if you view it as simulating several rounds as a single roll ( Read more... )

I felt like I learned a few things about pregnancy while playing in a Firefly roleplaying game last year. My character was pregnant, and I did a lot of research for the character, coming to the table with notes, and adjusting the timetable of the pregnancy in real time, according to our travels through intrastellar space. I tried to simulate some ( Read more... )

Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of Nova ScienceNow? Being interviewed by famous minor television personality and former professional literary agent John Hodgman?

Such a thing could not happen.

Or could it?

I played some Tiny Bang Story and Deus Ex over the weekend ( Read more... )