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I got into a Destiny 2 raid with friends for the first time in a while, last night. We pretty much breezed through Garden of Salvation until the final encounter, which took quite a while of trial and error, as we are all a little rusty...
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Video game writing, as a field, is very hard to pin down. Games are multimedia, and different games can have wildly different narrative presentations. The output of a writer working on a visual novel is going to look very different from...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 102-104: Putin adopted many elements of traditional and revived Eurasianism as parts of his world view. In his official pronouncements...
If you've tried installing Windows 11 recently, you'll know Microsoft really wants you to sign in with a Microsoft account. Unfortunately, the old method to bypass adding a Microsoft account stopped working. However, there's another...
A friend of mine practices two hobbies: photography and tennis. He recently found a way to blend them together by volunteering to take photos of local tennis clubs and tournaments. He could probably get paid a small fee, of course, but...
Pun in the title aside, I did get to go to Montréal and I do like the REM, their new "light rail" that is really just an automated metro like Vancouver's SkyTrain. I've talked about it a bit comparatively before, but I wanted to take a...
Hello, I am bored and I don't feel like doing anything. I think it is a combination of lack of structure (I was on sick leave for 2 weeks and on vacation for another week), the lack of darkness in the summer and poor sleep since I am...
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UpdatesI missed a week - we were travelling in the UK and I had no connection. We had an amazing weekend, involving a wedding at Queen Victorias Summer House, a tattoo, a Tracey Emin exhibition, a walk around Arsenals ground - and loads...
The electric car revolution was supposed to be inevitable. But over the past six months it's begun to look shaky. The clearest warning sign isn't sales figures, it's what carmakers are doing with their own money: writing off huge losses,...
Link: White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting, by Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush, and Maggie Haberman at the New York TimesThe White House personally directed FBI Director Kash Patel to issue subpoenas...
It seemed entirely typical of the trumpeter Henry Lowther that, during last night’s concert in celebration of his 85th birthday, he should wait to deliver his first solo until the third piece of the evening. As ever, his improvisation...
At Kezar Stadium, figure I have a few months to workshop some equine/vine wordplay. But, first an another such project urgently emerged. Uh, "Elegy for L.G.: Burn in Hell, G."
We want what we cannot have. We want the money the other person earns. We enjoy spending time with the other woman. We are drawn to women we should stay away from. We spend too much on things we don't need. We want that car. That house....