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...but wrote about in Two Marvel movies win superhero categories at the Critics Choice Super Awards for Superhero Day.
It's eerie how well the Tetris theme works with "Opportunities."
It's eerie how well the Tetris theme works with "Opportunities."
I found a longer, more detailed, and more recent video for SAG-AFTRA members voting to authorize a strike against video game producers.
Music at the intersection of two fandoms
Apr. 20th, 2023 08:39 amThis is probably the most played music from Final Fantasy, if not all video games, by drum corps.
I did what I said I would during break
Jan. 8th, 2023 10:43 pmAt his retirement party last month, one of my colleagues asked me if I was going anywhere during break. I told him "nowhere real." When he asked me to explain, I explained "I'm planning on playing a Star Wars video game (Star Wars: The Old Republic) and visiting the worlds of Star Wars." That's exactly what I did. My break is now over and I'm returning to reality tomorrow.
Normally, I start off each month with a post of my saved comments on other blogs during the previous month. I didn't leave any comments on other blogs during September, so no post with saved comments. Returning to in-person teaching this semester, complete with commuting and grading actual papers, has eaten up a lot of my time. So has becoming an officer in a guild on Star Wars: The Old Republic, even if that's just leading introductions to new members.
I am now an officer in a SWTOR guild
Sep. 23rd, 2021 06:12 pmI could have done this more than a year ago, but my wife, who has been an officer in the same guild for two years, and I decided I should wait until my term as a director for the Coffee Party expired. That happened on the last day of June, so I started working on becoming an officer in July.
A footnote about Pax Britannica
Jul. 10th, 2021 05:12 pmI went off on a tangent in An update on Puerto Rican statehood for Piña Colada Day 2021.
[T]he former guy dislikes Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans enough that he reportedly wanted to swap the island commonwealth for Greenland.*
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*This reminds me of a stunt I pulled in a games of Pax Britannica 30-35 years ago when I played the United Kingdom/Great Britain. I called it "Aristotle is not a Belgian." When Belgium, a minor power that runs by automatic rules, made a move that resulted in a Casus Belli, I would call for a Congress of Europe and propose a deal that would give Belgium the U.K's possessions in Newfoundland and Guiana (if I could convince the French player, France's possession in Guiana as well) along with a codominion in whichever territory Belgium had established a protectorate or possession, usually the Congo. That would get get rid of two low-value colonies for the U.K. and one for France, freeing those counters to be deployed in more high-value territories, and use up all of Belgium's counters for protectorates and possessions, eliminating it as a obstacle to the players who had plans for Africa.
What TFG is alleged to have proposed would not have been possible in Pax Britannica and would have been a stupid deal even if it were. First, Denmark was not one of the minor powers in the game (Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal were) and Greenland was not one of the available territories, so there would be nothing to swap for. Even if it had, I expect Greenland would have had an economic value of 1 or 2, while Puerto Rico, which is in the game, has a value of 5. This would have been a bad economic deal. Then again, if he actually did want to do this, it would have been for irrational reasons. That doesn't surprise me.
New computer working so far
Feb. 8th, 2021 10:29 amI'm here on my new computer. The only glitch is that I'm having trouble signing into Disqus. The sites that use that also allow other ways to sign in for comments, so it's not a total loss. Other than that, so far so good, especially since I can play Star Wars: The Old Republic reliably again. I missed playing.
Time to set up the new computer
Feb. 5th, 2021 04:01 pmTwo months ago, I posted that I was able to log on to Star Wars: The Old Republic for the first time in a month. Three weeks ago, I started having problems with the game again, as it would crash my computer after being on for ten minutes. That's the kind of problem I had in July that made me turn down all my graphics settings so I could continue playing. It also made my wife and I buy a new CPU that has been sitting behind me waiting for me to copy down my logins and passwords so I could set it up. Well, today, the computer crashed during a Zoom call for work. That does it. I will be setting up the computer this weekend.
A tweet about D&D
Dec. 18th, 2020 08:54 pmReminds me of my old gaming buddy Dave. He rolled up a character with lame stats and called him Dork. The character turned out to be an OK fighter. He rolled up another character with lame stats and called him O'Dork. He turned out to be a great fighter!
