I've had a panel pitch accepted for MAGFest, so I've halted all gaming unrelated to that so I can put together the best possible talk between now and late January. It's a topic about which I feel I know about 60% as much as I'd like to feel qualified to discuss it, so I'm shifting gears to play rel...

November progress. Home stretch now. 2024 PROGRESS FINISHED: 01-02 - 10 Seconds to Win (Steam) 01-02 - Dogs Organized Neatly (Steam) 01-03 - Microsoft Wordament (Mobile) 01-04 - Cats Organized Neatly (Steam) 03-11 - Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood (PS5) 08-01 - Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (PS4 via PS...

In typical Kong fashion, I have a couple things on the go in addition to my casual fare ( Final Fantasy XIV on PS5 and Langrisser Mobile on ... mobile). For even more casual fare, I've downloaded the new Pokémon TCG mobile game. I don't really battle, I just use it as a cute card collector and open ...

I've reached the end of the quadrilogy! There are still two more novels and one more novella in this series after the conclusion of the main/initial four, so I'll seek them out after a short break. They didn't have them at my local bookshop, or at the chain that wants to wipe out an entire race of p...

I've finally started to dedicate a little bit of attention to maintaining my Backloggery after the site update, thanks mainly to Sharecrow sorting his games into lists to help decide what to tackle. https://backloggery.com/KongWen I redid my theming, header, avatar, and bio/profile to better suit th...

Continuing to continue the series. 01. 2024-01-05 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Tom Stoppard (English), 126pp 02. 2024-11-01 All Systems Red (2017), Martha Wells (Texan), 149pp 03. 2024-11-08 Artificial Condition (2018), Martha Wells (Texan), 158pp 04. 2024-11-21 Rogue Protocol (2018...

Warcraft 1 & 2 are getting remasters with new graphics and modern widescreen monitor support among other QoL features. https://www.gematsu.com/2024/11/warcraft-remastered-and-warcraft-ii-remastered-announced-for-pc-now-available $10 each on Battle.net now These are excellent seminal PC RTS games...

Continuing the series.

01. 2024-01-05 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Tom Stoppard (English), 126pp
02. 2024-11-01 All Systems Red (2017), Martha Wells (Texan), 149pp
03. 2024-11-08 Artificial Condition (2018), Martha Wells (Texan), 158pp

2023 in summary

Ha, I'm pretty sure I've read more than this this year, but I couldn't find a post, so I guess no one (including myself) will ever know. At the recommendation of my friend who also put me on to the Machineries of Empire trilogy, I checked out the first book in the Murderbot series: All Systems Red ....

The Mummy didn't grab me right away, but as is my October tradition, I'll come back to it in November and December and clear it then. :D Instead, I played through Howl , which I summarized a little bit in the game clears thread. It's a nice little turn-based puzzle tactics game where you have a few ...