I recently got an email asking about the footnotes I use on this site. These sorts of questions pop up pretty often. People ask things like: Is there a plugin I can use? Did you come up with the idea yourself? How do you create them? The answers to which are No, No, and “It’s […]

The good news is that I got my second dose of vaccine, so I’m a little less likely to die of the plague. The bad news is that I was feeling kind of run down, sleep-deprived, and cranky. I didn’t really realize how bad it was until I listened to the show and heard how […]

Morgan (presumably) wants to blow up the Talos-1 space station. To do that, she needs Alex’s arming key. To get it, she needs to fly around outside the station and get mauled by six different breeds of alien tentacle monsters while she tries to scan bits of their neuron-like coral that now envelop the station. […]

Hosts: Paul, Shamus. Episode edited by Issac. Diecast359 Link (YouTube) Show notes: 00:00 Filament Why was this game not called String Theory? 15:29 Mailbag: New World Drama Dear Diecast, So, the Syndicate faction (purple) on my New World server just had their first bit of major drama today—the guild leader of The Olympians, the guild […]

It’s been a long road, but I think we’ve finally reached the part of the game where Morgan can finally begin having agency within the story. Up until now, Morgan has simply been opening doors so she could open the next so she could reach the next door. While this was going on, she was […]

So let’s say you fire up some 90s style shooter built around rocket jumping and circle-strafing. Something along the lines of Doom, Quake, or Serious Sam, with a heavy metal soundtrack and copious violence. You play through the first couple of levels and everything is more or less what you’d expect from this genre. But […]

After Morgan deals with the mess in Cargo Bay, she moves on to Life Support. Here she bumps into ex-girlfriend Mikhaila Ilyushin. Mikhaila is currently slumped on the floor, paralyzed in her extremities. She has a rare neurological condition called Paraplexis. She’s fine as long as she gets regular medication, but with the station in […]

I’m recovered from surgery, freshly infused with iron, and feeling like myself again. The weather has been ridiculously nice lately and I’m getting some exercise.  If I continue to eat right and get the exercise I need, then maybe I can wring another two or three weeks out of this broken-down old body before I […]