Category Archives: Articles

2023 Game of the Year

What I Have Been Playing This Year I’ve been sick this week, and while I’m getting better I’m not quite fully recovered yet so this will be shorter than it otherwise probably would be. This year, I bought as many … Continue reading

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Super Mario Maker 2 – My Oct. 2023 Update, along with some commentary on SMM1 and Super Mario Wonder as well

Yes, my favorite game of the current century is indeed one I’m still playing, and making levels for.  I’ve got two things to discuss this time, my latest levels and a certain accomplishment I completed.  It’s not the hardest thing … Continue reading

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Diablo IV Review of sorts, Part II: Spoiler-Heavy Storyline Analysis & Additional Thoughts

Introduction After writing my previous article here I continued playing Diablo IV.  As a reminder I am playing it on Xbox Series X in 4k.  I finished the story in Diablo IV in July, just after the first season began … Continue reading

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My Lego Castle & Pirate Set Photos

Introduction In this post I’m going to post some pictures.  There are 16 photos of my Castle collection, and 10 Pirate.  Enjoy.  This is about all the Pirate photos I could post, but I could post plenty more closeups of … Continue reading

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A Super Mario Maker 2 My Levels Update

What, nobody other than me was asking for this?  Well, sorry, but I was so here it is.  My last MM2 levels update was last March, and since then I have made several levels.  I would, honestly, make more if … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Computer

————- INTRODUCTION ————-   This is a guide for how to use an old computer platform that I have had an interest in for some time now.  I wrote a Game Opinion Summaries list for some TI99 carts something like … Continue reading

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It’s Over. Nintendo Went Through With the Worst Shutdown of a Digital Storefront Ever.

I wrote this today, because I’m still upset about this and aren’t over it.  This article has three parts.  First is the longer, about Nintendo’s recent shutdown of digital purchasing on the 3DS and Wii U.  Second is a shorter … Continue reading

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On an Interesting ’80s Lego Birthday Party [Castle] Poster

Sometime in the later 1980s, as many child Lego fans did I somehow got some issues of Lego’s then-new magazine, which was mostly aimed at child fans.  I would not regularly get issues until the mid 1990s, so unfortunately I … Continue reading

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Lego Rebuilding Part IV: The Rest Of My Classic Castle Sets, including Guarded Inn, Viking Voyager, Forestmen’s Hideout, and more, and a Minifigure Inventory

Since my last Lego article, I have continued rebuilding my remaining castle Lego sets, and also have gone through my pirate and space minifigures to determine what I have minifigure-wise from those lines. It’s been a lot more work than … Continue reading

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Me and Lego Castle, Part II: Lego Castle Set Opinion Summaries

This article ended up being significantly longer than I thought it would be.  It’s more than twice the length of the first Lego article!  Some of that is me repeating things, but most of it is just that I have … Continue reading

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