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web-goddessOct 8, 2026

Clearing out the browser tabs…. “I don’t know why this is so hard.” – I loved Mr. Peanutbutter so much. Bojack was such a great show, but I’m not sure if I can do a rewatch without triggering depression. Dressmaker – This cozy fashion and sewing game is getting really positive reviews. Just added to […]

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web-goddessSep 9, 2026

Kallax Storageborn

I saw this on Mastodon today, and I had to get Rodd to explain to me WTF I was looking at. I’ve never played Skyrim, but apparently your character can have an NPC “companion” that can do things for you like fight. The most common use, he tells me, is to increase your inventory by […]

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Ally KotetsuAug 12, 2026

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Musings of the DayJul 24, 2026

Videogame Musings

LEGO Lord of the Rings - 92% complete

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Rob’s Terrible Tomb Of TatJul 23, 2026

The Making Of Boiling Point (Jank)

Jank have a small Making Of Boiling Point up, which is a bit of a treat. Players flew in helicopters and planes, it's true - but they marvelled, too, at the flying jaguars. These airborne cats became a running joke after Deep Shadows published the patch notes of its first update, which included the line:...

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tay.zoneJul 8, 2026

Game Console Shapes Are Wrong

But what if they were all clamshells?

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taco 'bout itJul 1, 2026

i guess it’s better than Nothing?

Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. Xbox employees...

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Felicia Rondo’s HomepageMar 30, 2026

I’m A Weirdo

Blog about buying things I can already play.

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lesser daemonNov 8, 2025

Lotus Farming In Another World

Like many people who live in cities and spend most of their time on the computer, I fantasize a lot about leaving it all behind and touching grass forever. I try my best to be cognizant of just how much of a fantasy this is: I find it easy to get bored in the biggest city in America, so I'd probably go insane within days of moving out to a farm somewhere. Boredom aside, there is a reason manual labor is something people often try to escape, and that the ability to do it in a leisurely fashion is

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lesser daemonMay 6, 2025

Reading/Playing/Watching, 5/5/25

Stuff I'm Reading I'd rather read the prompt - great blog post about LLMs in a university environment. Nicely sums up a lot of my thoughts about LLM-aided writing, which is that using an LLM defeats the point! "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly." Write bad essays! That's how you learn! Bizarro World - a 2007 essay on the competitive retro gaming scene, in which the author discovers his wife is the best Gameboy Tetris player in the world. Really wild to revisit a time before Twitch w

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lesser daemonApr 15, 2025

Please Don't Call It A Metroidbrainia

I, like a lot of dorks with similar tastes, have been playing Blue Prince. It's a really well-designed mix of two types of games I love: Gone Home-style "walk around and find environmental clues" and deckbuilding. The cool conceit is that you're building a house, rather than a traditional deck of cards: every time you open a door, you're given a randomized pool of rooms to pick from, with the goal of finding the mysterious 46th room in a house you inherited from your uncle. Blue Prince is fun,

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lesser daemonMar 25, 2025

Games That Know They're Games

Today was supposed to be my first day back in the office in a while, so naturally I'm sick. I think a frustrating thing, in times like this, is not really being able to isolate the variable that's making me feel lousy. I haven't been taking great care of myself, I've barely been home in the past month, and I certainly haven't been getting the best sleep. So is feeling bad today an actual illness or just the consequences of my own actions? Hard to say. I went into the office for a few hours and f

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lesser daemonMar 24, 2025

Letter of Recommendation: Oshi-Gokko

Keeping today's post short and sweet. I went to the launch party for Oshi-Gokko at WonderVille last night, which was a whole lot of fun, and played in my first games tournament in ages. I got washed in the first round but I did lose to the eventual winner of the tournament so I'll call that a win. I am biased on this one, since my friend Mat was one of the lead devs on the game, but I think it's a really delightful two-player arcade cab and a great addition to the Arcade Commons collection. The

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lesser daemonMar 23, 2025

What I'm Playing (March '25)

Visual novels are kind of a comfort genre for me. I think I get the same soothing effect from them that a lot of people get from games like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. So it should come as no surprise that I've been playing a lot of VN or VN-adjacent games recently. Here's some stuff I've enjoyed over the past few weeks: Citizen Sleeper 2: Builds on the solid base of the first game and adds some fun mechanical crunch with missions and the dice-breaking mechanic. I always really enjoy Gar

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lesser daemonJan 25, 2025

What Comes After Post-Modernism?

I saw a talk at MAGfest today by Rym Decoster and Emily Compton which attempted to sketch a theory of current post-post-modern cultural output. It's very much a work in progress, but their concept of "metacontextualism" is the idea that after postmodern deconstruction and irony, we are starting to see a trend emerge towards building meaning through choice out of its ashes: being aware of the fractured contexts of a postmodern world, and that there's no single way of knowing or being, but choosin

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lesser daemonJan 23, 2025

Letters of Recommendation: Signalis, Mushroom Coffee

Since I've spent most of today waiting for a delayed train or on said train, I decided to write about two of the things that got me through it. 1) Signalis This 2022 game by Berlin studio Rose Engine has been sitting in my Steam library for a few months now, and I finally picked it up this week. I play a lot of artsy indie games, but I don't think I often see overlap between those and the survival horror genre. This threads the needle beautifully - hallucinatory dream sequences, beautiful pix

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lesser daemonDec 12, 2019

Space, Time, Rules, and Rooms: How Games Create Narrative

Vladimir Propp was born in St. Petersburg in 1895. He spent his life as a student and instructor, first of languages and later of folklore…

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