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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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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
Recent Updates
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!
08/26/2024
The front page has long been overdue for an update and I've kept putting it off due to being busy. Anyway, the main event that has been taking place for the last few months has been Civ4 AI Survivor Season Eight which will be moving to the playoff round this week; click here once again for the official Season Eight page with all of the full details. Elsewhere, we have a new set (Set Twelve) for Teamfight Tactics which gets a couple of new videos each week over on YouTube. Here's the link to the Set Twelve playlist with all of the videos. Since the last frontpage update, I've also done the complete playthrough of a Holy Bolt Paladin in Diablo 2 which wrapped up over this past weeked. I'll link the index page for Usain Bolter which divides the story into seven reports. Finally, I also finished writing our past trip to Vietnam and South Korea, and I'm about halfway through covering our trip to the Southwest portion of the United Kingdom which is linked here. That may take a bit longer to finish as I'm heading into the busiest season of the year for my work. I'm also aware that Civilization 7 has been announced, with a questionable reception of some of its announced gameplay mechanics, but we'll cover that in more detail when it launches next year in 2025.
05/04/2024
The time has finally arrived: Civ4 AI Survivor is back for Season Eight! Well, in a couple more weeks anyway, but the setup for the new season is already well underway. The leader draw kicks off next week on 10 May and the fantasy draft auction takes place two weeks after that before things kick off in full with Game One on 31 May. Click here for the official Season Eight page with all of the full details. This will be keeping me busy for the immediate future, but I will mention elsewhere that I've been recording YouTube video content for Teamfight Tactics Season Eleven (which unfortunately hasn't turned out to be a particularly good set). And elsewhere I was finally able to write up some of my recent Travel reports, covering the Vietnam portion of last year's trip overseas, and then the April 2024 Total Eclipse that crossed over North America. I need to finish up with the South Korea portion before we head out to the United Kingdom later this summer and add more to the travel backlog!
03/17/2024
Saint Patrick's Day is here and with it a long-delayed update to the front page of the website. Since the last posting, Set Ten of Teamfight Tactics has come to a close which means another retrospective article taking a look back at the set. This was arguably the best set ever in the history of TFT so my review is highly positive in nature; we've moving on now to Set Eleven which looks like it's going to be quite a bit weaker. Aside from Livestreaming TFT games, I also played through a Master of Orion game with the Mrrshans which is summarized in this written report. Offline, I did a complete Octopath Traveler solo run with the Sorcerer class which has its first part here. It had been well over a year since I last played the original Octopath Traveler and I still need to finish solo runs with the last few classes at some point.
In even older gaming news, I also spent some time running solo characters for the original Final Fantasy. I had to play through the quest of a solo Thief at some point which is written up here, which was amusingly done at the same time as Sir System Error was playing out the exact same challenge without either of us knowing about the other. Then I returned to the game again for one last run: the melee-only solo Black Mage, what I consider to be my magnum opus for the game. This is probably the last run that I'll do for the original Final Fantasy as there isn't any more gameplay left to explore. Finally, I am still hoping to put together Season Eight of Civ4 AI Survivor later this year, look for more details there in a month or so. Thanks as always for following along!
