Roaming the Mad God’s Realm

Time to pull my head out of Stardew Valley and make good on the potential of my new laptop. Let's talk about Realm of the Mad God. RotMG is a browser-based MMORPG of sorts developed by the independent Wild Shadow Studios and bought by Deca Games in 2016. It has the multiple servers, raid battles and …

My children come to life

Next week I will be presenting my Senior Project at the Honors Project Interdisciplinary Conference. Literally, next week. Friday, May 3 at 11:10 a.m. in room 1307 of the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics.  Just in case any of you are interested in going! It's a whole panel on creative writing that includes my …

The dungeons saga: Bedknobs and sheep schticks

After a week of unbridled anticipation, today was finally Dungeons and Dragons day. Since the beginning of the semester, we were promised a three-hour class period of just playing the fantasy tabletop role-playing game in my Gaming in American Culture class. Finally the day has arrived, and it was glorious. Though it did begin with …

The dungeons prequel

We are officially one week away from Dungeons and Dragons day in my Gaming in American Culture class. Toward the beginning of the semester I listed D&D day as one of the enticing course elements, so being on the cusp makes me salivate with anticipation. Considering I barely have any experience outside of one character …

The magic of maps

A good, old-fashioned map can add a whole lot of character to a place. Sure, the colorful country-accurate map of the Earth on a globe is an impressive sight especially fully animated online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcJzi2GvNWc But that view of the planet is a bit too modernist and clinical for my tastes. I'm more of a fan …

Fantastical Creatures

/me hopes that title is different enough to avoid any sort of legal action from Warner Bros. or J.K. Rowling With Dad at work and Mom + Aly off in Disneyland where the youngin' was marching in a parade (which would be a much more exciting story if it was mine to tell), I had …

Distractions

Is it ironic to spend time making a whole blog post about all of the things that are distracting me from the things I have to do? Or is it just stupid? Well either way I don't exactly have a lot to talk about until Legendary Eirika drops in Fire Emblem Heroes tomorrow so this …

What’s in a name?

While I can think of very few distractions better suited to the title than a video game where I'm able to kill a gun-themed dragon with bees, Enter the Gungeon cannot keep me from doing some work I need to do forever. Mostly because the Switch battery doesn't last forever. Otherwise it most definitely could …