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  • Deadlock: Silhouettes and Emotional State

    Okay… I’ll admit ahead of time that the writing of this blog post got away from me a bit, but I hope you’ll stick around to the end. I think that part of what I’m trying to wrap my head around, in terms of why I don’t like Deadlock’s design as it is, is that…

  • Overwatch’s Sombra Rework and the Fundamental Nonsense of Multiplayer Shooters

    Years ago, on a previous version of this site, in rants now locked behind backups that would need to be converted to a new form, I discussed the travesty that was Tribes: Ascend’s early attempt at game monetization. If I were to boil down what I said at the time, it was that T:A was…

  • A Brief Chat with ChatGPT

    I do endeavor to find unusual ideas. So I asked ChatGPT the following: Tell me a story about dogs, but with every other word run through a rot13 encoder The result was somewhat surprising, and a bit disappointing: Gur fnzr rkcrevzrag jnf univat n pyvzo bs qbtzf va gur qnex genvy. Gurl pbhyq abg or…

  • Overwatch 2: Mechanically Addressing Naive Characterization (A Suggestion)

    A short preface As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I had a longer essay on thoughts about Overwatch 2 that I ended up not liking and sitting on for a long time. Part of that was the overall pretentiousness of my tone, which you may still see here, but another part of it…

  • Overwatch 2: Multiplayer, Content Grinding, and the MCV Problem

    A short preface This was originally part of a longer essay, and to be clear: I have no idea to what degree Team Overwatch’s plans have changed since we last heard about it. The direct reason for this essay is the proposed character leveling system which was proposed for Overwatch 2’s cooperative PvE game mode,…

  • Words to say: I have a few

    So! If anyone was actually following my blog you’d note that is has been out of commission for… a while now. And not well-updated before then. And that is exactly the point–I was self-hosting a blog and not exactly keen on keeping the server software constantly updated. Migrating from one version of Drupal to the…