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Off-topic: RDR2 shots with snow
During the Christmas season, the world of RDR2 online got a wintry makeover — somehow making an already pretty game even more dazzling.
Ten Songs (or Artists) that Made My Year
This started as a “Things I’m grateful for at the end of a crappy year”-esqe post, but then inspired by Marian I decided to make it all-music. It was meant to be an end-year 2020 or January 1st post, but … Continue reading
Back to Lost Heaven
Eighteen years ago (!!!!!) I fell in love with a game: Mafia, by Gathering of Developers. A third-person shooter set in 1930s America, telling the story of a young cab driver who is drawn into a crime family. The setting, … Continue reading
Reading on the Road: Shiloh’s Bloody Hill
“The world was suddenly out of kilter, as though the beauty of the bright Tennessee sunrise was merely a prelude to death, and that nature, with all her morning splendor, was mocking mankind’s folly.” – Winston Groom, Shiloh 1862. During … Continue reading
COVID has infected my gaming
Between the corona chill and the sweltering heat outside, I haven’t been doing much out-and-abouting with friends — I had a close circle who I was seeing every weekend, but now it’s more of a every two-weeks kind of thing … Continue reading
Literary humor in RDR2
I’m currently wrapping up my fourth playthrough of RDR2, and am continuing to discover new things. Recently while looting the body of some poor unfortunate (he had a case of bad manners, which I remedied with liberal application of fisticuffs) … Continue reading
Music to dump tea by
Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set Without encountering agents of his state or government But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land Brought on by the hollow men who did not … Continue reading