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  • E33: Are There Any Good Faith Arguments In The Face Of AI Usage?

    Exhaustion gets the best of all of us, and sometimes, one is too tired to even realize one is too tired. How I looked yesterday trying to finish my article on time Yesterday was a complete shit show, and I’m surprised everything turned out as well as it did. I’m guessing due to burning the… Read more

  • How Hell Frames The Devil’s Advocacy Of Gambling On The Parry

    The presence of good does not magically negate the simultaneity of bad by proxy. You’ll have trouble decking the halls once you catch these hands There remains a wealth of content ahead of me in Expedition 33 (E33), of this, I have no doubts. What, with the game mirroring most of the magical machinations a… Read more

  • E33: IF More Of US Cared, It Would Lighten The Load For Everyone

    They say it’s always darkest before the dawn… Yet for others, it remains perpetual fucking midnight As I continue to trek through the misery and mire of Expedition 33 (E33), it must not be understated the importance the game puts on the valuable beauty of impermanence, in not taking for granted what is here today,… Read more

  • Expedition 33: The Happy Happy, Joy Joy Of The Log(s)

    Remember folks: just because you feel like bucking the trend of traditionality, does not mean it will always work out for the best. “wHy Is ThIs gAmE sO dIfFiCuLt?’ said every loud Metal Gear Solid player ever As Expedition 33 (E33) continues to enrapture me, I soldier forward; its world full of dread and woe… Read more

  • Can A JRPG Be Made In France? Or Does That Make It An SRPG (Sparkling Role Playing Game)?

    The holidays bring many things with them….a sense of gobsmacked incredulity is among the worst qualities involved. The yuletide horrors persist, but so do I The continued trek through Expediton 33 (E33) continues, though not quite at an agreeable pace, at the moment. As is the case with any given work week, both exhaustion and… Read more

  • Automating Oneself Out Of Their Own Existence

    Out of all the decisions one makes in the everyday, the priority that should top everyone’s list should be becoming the best version of themselves on behalf of everyone around them, as if everyone followed this as a guiding light in the realm of philosophical dictum, we would all literally benefit as a result. Of… Read more

  • A Better Class Of Villainy

    Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. They might be “bad guys”, but that doesn’t make them “bad guys”? The examination of human nature in direct contrast to the mechanistic tendencies needed in applying oneself to the demanding dexterous proclivities of Expedition 33’s (E33) parry system, made for a surprisingly sobering read,… Read more

  • Being A Third Party To One’s Own State Of Mind

    To be or not to be…that is the question, and with it, the rest of horrifying existence follows. Be the motherfucker you wish to see in the world My delightful yet arduous journey through Expedition 33 (E33) spurs on, as both the limitations of the real and the hyperreal test my resolve, and with it,… Read more

  • E33: Memories Bring Diamonds And Rust

    The familiar doesn’t always mean favorable. So very tried of outdated standards…. Expedition 33 (E33) continues to deliver in most ways fathomable, not fixing what isn’t broken about the old school way of doing things, yet mediating some of the less favorable elements that haunted turn based RPGs of old. These kinds of moments always… Read more

  • Expedition 33: Something Beautiful, But Annihilating

    The march of time waits for no one, and yesterday’s standards becomes today’s exceptions. For example, back in the 90’s, the gaming industry use to operate within the context of a “low yikes” standard of financial viability, whereas these days, the industry is now deep in the “critical high yikes” stage of tolerable financial turmoil… Read more

  • Expedition 33: Desiring The Things Which Will Destroy You In The End

    To parry or not parry an enemies attack…that is the question. Really puts practice into perspective, as it becomes an exercise in negating regret As I effortlessly glide through the enchanting wilds Expedition 33 (E33) continues to conjure for me, I find it quite hard not to take a moment in soaking in the sights… Read more

  • A Fantasy Reborn…Finally

    Even if one finds this time of year cringey, it’s still important to share in the holiday spirit of what matters most. Maladaptive coping mechanisms and trauma induced humor, for example Having finally launched myself into Expedition 33 (E33), after ruminating on when the time was right to commence such an endeavor, I figured ending… Read more

  • She Shuts Her Eyes And The World Drops Dead

    Death: the final farewell…the last destination, and an immutable truth that everyone must come to terms with sooner than later. Some of us with much healthier mindsets on the matter than others The grim reality involving the specter of time relentlessly haunting me, is a reality I’ve had to acknowledge and accept as a part… Read more

  • Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Horse Armor

    In spite of the terror reality relentlessly rains down upon me, my flirtations with gaming persists unabated. Well…slightly abated, as I have recently detailed, though I remain an admirably audacious individual non the less. Audaciously admonishable to others, mind you….quality is always perspective, though I do prefer the moments when I’m the biggest terror relentlessly… Read more

  • This is what the skill to get a platinum trophy in Elden Ring looks like

    You might not be all that surprised by the difference in time investment, honestly A very similar looking screen greeted me before the end of the tutorial when I booted up Elden Ring: Nightreign, which I guess should come as no surprise to me, as it’s a bit of a tradition to die before the… Read more

  • Looking forward to more pain in Nightreign

    A new Elden Ring game is upon us. What launch day servers will look like when players start logging in After spending a significant amount of time with Doom: The Dark Ages in the past two weeks, and having thoroughly enjoyed what was on offer, warts and all, I am about ready to move on… Read more