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Welcome to my website. Here you can find information about a variety of different games that I have played over the years. My website is high on content, low on graphics. Please select the game that interests you from the list below.
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Written Reports
Other Media
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Quote of the Moment
The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.
- Sir Edward Grey
"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Recent Updates
04/02/2025
Almost two months following its release, Civilization 7 has an official entry here on the front page of the website. There's only one full game report listed here thus far though it's quite long (split into four separate parts) and I plan to do a writeup for my current Civ7 Livestream game after it finishes. Civ7 continues to be in rough shape and looks to have serious flaws in its core design though I have enjoyed at least some of the time that I've been playing it. The other big news for the website is that Season Nine of Civ4 AI Survivor will not take place this year and has been delayed to a projected 2026. Unfortunately, this year has simply been too crazy between having a second child, Civ7 releasing, Twitch removing all of my old archived Livestreams (forcing me to migrate a bunch of them to YouTube), and the general insanity taking place in American politics. The hope is that things will have settled down a bit by this time next year and we can return with a fresh new season of our competition. There will be some fun content for Civ4 coming later this year for its 20th anniversary which I'm excited to share with everyone; that's still a number of months away but keep an eye out when we get closer to Civ4's October 2005 release anniversary.
02/06/2025
Today was the release date for Civilization 7 and I had the chance to play the game on Livestream for a few hours. The game has been mostly fun but it is in ROUGH shape out of the gate, it definitely would have benefited from several more months of development time before release. Unfortunately I don't have the time at the momen to type up lengthy impressions for the new game so I'll mostly be running additional Livestreams (which will get posted over at YouTube as well) for the time being. I have no idea how much content Civ7 will end up getting on this website, we'll simply have to wait and see. The only other website news to report is the addition of a short written report for the Master of Orion game that I recently finished on Livestream, this one called Winging It and featuring the Alkari. Things should settle down here in a few more months as little Charlie gets a bit older and doesn't require quite as much attention as he does right now in his caterpillar cocoon state.
12/12/2024
Update time once again for the website. The biggest event was the birth of our second son Charles Alexander who arrived just before Thanksgiving. Our little guy will likely interrupt the normal Friday Livestreaming schedule a bit though I'll try to stream at least a little bit on most weeks. In terms of gaming news, I'm continuing to upload YouTube videos for Teamfight Tactics on a weekly basis and I started a summoning Necromancer that I'm writing about over on the Diablo portion of the website. The new wrinkle this time around is that this character can ONLY use summons and nothing else, no curses or direct damage skills, which has made things pretty interesting thus far. There's also a Civ4 game featuring Elizabeth taking place on Livestream at the moment which will be written up for the website when finished, and more Civ4 AI Survivor alternate histories trickling out from time to time as they get finished. I think that's all for the moment, happy holidays all!
10/01/2024
Season Eight of Civ4 AI Survivor is in the books! I'll avoid any spoilers in this front page post but we had a fantastic Championship game that's very worth watching if you haven't seen it already. All of the games and associated information are still linked from the official Season Eight webpage along with a new Conclusions page with a summary of the results. We'll have more alternate histories coming over the next few months to tide things over during the long break between seasons. Elsewhere on the website, I started a new solo playthrough of Octopath Traveler with H'aanit, one of the few characters that I haven't done yet, which can be found linked at this page. I'm also wrapping up with the Travel report on our summer trip to Southwest Britain which will hopefully be done in the next few days. Finally, as announced on the Livestream on Friday, I'll mention again that Liz and I are expecting the birth of our second child at the end of November. Writing for the website and Livestreaming will be a bit crazy after the due date arrives but eventually things will settle down and return to normal. Wish us luck!
