11/11/2026
I've been delaying updating the front page of the website since things have been so busy and therefore I have a bunch to cover, detailing the various updates that have been added to the website over the past few months. I'll start by mentioning that most of the alternate histories for Season Nine of Civ4 AI Survivor are finished at this point, largely thanks to the tireless work of community member TheOneAndOnlyAtesh. These are all linked from the Season Nine main page so feel free to check them out if you haven't seen them yet. Working my way down the website's table of contents, I played a Civ7 game called Strength of the Mountains back when the Test of Time update released. This allowed me to take a look at the Civ7 gameplay now that the same civ can be used for the whole game; things are perhaps slightly better but not by that much, check out the report if you're curious. I've spent a lot of time with Diablo 2 over the past few months, first playing my Warlock character Doktor Faustus to test out the newest class added this year. Then the discovery of this online tool that cracks the in-game gambling system inspired me to create a new Sorceress who would explore the postgame content which I always skip. Her name was Nova and I just wrapped up her report at the time of this writing, this one is worth reading since it covers parts of Diablo 2 that I've never written about before.

Still continuing down the list of games, I also completed a short Master of Orion game with the Psilons named Finding Our Mojo. I almost never play a completely unrestricted game with the Psilons, the game's most powerful race, and this report demonstrates why. Then in the Dragon Quest section, I finally completed the solo Priest playthrough which required grinding out an unfortunate number of stat-boosting seeds at very low drop odds. This will be one of those things that's more fun to read about than it was to play! Finally, I'm also working on updating the Travel section with some short visits that I did to additional state capitals at the end of the summer. I have the first writeup finished for Hartford, Connecticut and I should have time to get the other ones done in the next few weeks. They're all linked from this overview page so keep an eye out for the rest of the group. Hopefully I'll have more time to devote to writing in the upcoming weeks as I'm nearly caught up on my to-do list!

07/15/2026
Season Nine of Civ4 AI Survivor has concluded! We have a new champion though I won't spoil the result for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. As always, the best place for all of the information on the finished season remains the main Season Nine page which will be updated over the upcoming months with alternate histories data as it takes place. Elsewhere on the website, I'm finally doing a playthrough of the new Warlock class in Diablo 2 which can be found at this location. I'm running a summoning build which should come as no surprise given my past character history and it's been a total blast thus far. There's also a Civ7 game in progress on Livestream at the moment which will be written up when it concludes, and then I posted a report in the Travel section for our family trip to Pittsburgh, PA that took place in June. Hopefully the rest of the summer will be pretty quiet and I can take a much-needed break from all of the AI Survivor stuff!

06/04/2026
Two months have passed since the last front page update and I wanted to add a notice here. We're moving into the playoff round of Civ4 AI Survivor this week as Season Nine continues onwards; there's about one more month left to go and readers are encouraged to keep following along at the linked main page. Elsewhere on the website, when I haven't been running the AI Survivor stuff I've been playing several solo characters in the HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest 3. I've completely finished writeups for the Monster Trainer and Warrior classes with another new playthrough under way for the Priest class; all of these reports can be found here on the main Dragon Quest page. I also completed a new Final Fantasy 5 team on Livestream, this one featuring the four Gameboy Advance jobs. I added a short summary stub for this Latecomers team with links to the Livestream recordings for anyone interested. That's about all for the moment; I haven't played Teamfight Tactics in months and would actually like to do so again, unfortunately the current set is a dumpster fire disaster so I'm still waiting for either a set revival or the next one to be released.

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