Backlog: The Embiggening – November, 2024
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/26/24 at 04:07 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! November is upon us, and our thoughts return to our obligation to be thankful for what we have and to exercise our American right to vote. Neither of those things is particularly compelling in 2024.
The Earth is still spinning, and its core is still molten, so of course there is shovelware. We’ve got all three major subcategories coming at us too. In the Licensed Swill category, there’s “LEGO Horizon Adventures,” which combines LEGO with Sony’s ‘Horizon’ IP, delving to new depths of horror. There are also a new ‘Totally Spies!’ game and a new ‘Harry Potter’ game, along with a compilation of old ‘Marvel vs. Capcom’ Fighting games, which are Licensed Swill due to the Marvel part, not the Capcom part. In the 2Cazual2Liv subcategory, we’ve got “Zero to Hero Dance,” “MySims: Cozy Bundle,” and… “Needy Streamer Overload.” Lastly, we come to the Annualized Swill subcategory, which, shockingly …
5 Essential Dungeons and Dragons Supplements Regardless of Edition
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/20/24 at 02:51 PM CT
Well, Hasbro Wizards of the Coast recently released the 5.Woke Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, which they are calling “2024 Edition” apparently. While it allegedly maintains compatibility with the 2014 release of 5th Edition, there are already enough minor changes being reported that it will drive Dungeon Masters and experienced players insane trying to keep track of them.
That got me thinking: I have D&D books on my shelf that date all the way back to 1st Edition and were originally released in the early 1980s… and I still refer to these books all the time when looking for a way to spice-up the increasingly-bland and “for everyone, a.k.a., modern audiences, a.k.a., the most sensitive wieners in the world who should be sitting under their security blankets in their safe spaces instead of playing D&D” version of the game we have today. So let’s take a quick look at the 5 most-consulted books of ancient and arcane dungeonometry in my library!
1. Encyclopedia Magica …
Are Gamers Considerably More Culturally Aware than the Mainstream?
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/13/24 at 02:37 PM CT
It seems like ever since the Orange Retard, Trollnald J. Dump, was elected President in 2016, the Culture Wars have been enflamed – as he might say – “like never before.” Seemingly in reaction to the MAGA movement, every single Marxist Sleeper Agent activated simultaneously… and prematurely.
While the Long March Through the Institutions has been partially successful in that it has captured both corporate Human Resources and the Ivory Towers of academia, the rest of the culture in the West was largely ignored. Obviously, the plan was to abruptly replace the existing culture with a Marxist worldview and hope that the Normies were so placated by their Bread and Circuses (e.g., welfare and professional sports) that they wouldn’t notice.
And, honestly, it almost worked. Normies are completely blind to the Culture Wars and mindlessly drift along, consuming whatever media or culture they happen to bump into, like NPC jellyfish. Gamers, on the other hand, have been …
Romhacking.net Shuts Down – It Has Nothing to do with Nintendo
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/06/24 at 02:24 PM CT
Gaming news is slow and dismal this Fall, so what better time to take a look back at the happenings we may have missed over the Summer?
It turns out that back in August, the long-running home for mods of classic Golden Age videogames – typically referred to as “rom-hacks,” as they involve editing the read-only memory dumped from a vintage cartridge (or, more rarely, disc) – romhacking.net, was permanently shut-down by its owner.
We’ve had plenty of grim news lately about Nintendo suing or sending Cease and Desist letters to all sorts of rom distribution sites and emulator developers in their perpetual game of Whack-a-Mole, but this time around, the decision to shut-down a rom-related site had nothing to do with them, but rather revolved entirely around personality conflicts between the site’s movers and shakers.
Romhacking.net had been around for 20 years, as an organized archive for rom-hacks and fanslations of all manner of 8-bit and 16-bit games, even …
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