The neat thing about Mega Man 2 is that it has a couple of difficulty settings. Normal mode is pretty dang easy for a Mega Man game, while Difficult mode is the proper challenge. If this is your first time playing through this masterpiece, I highly encourage you to play on Normal mode, then move … Continue reading Mega Man 2 Boss Order and Notes

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of my all-time favorite video games, and yet it has always bummed me out that it's release signaled the end of the traditional Castlevania series. Since the release of SotN in 1997, all games with the Castlevania appellation have followed in its footsteps as a Super Metroid-style adventure … Continue reading Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon – First Impressions

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Undisputed Era vs. Street Profits (c) – Tag Team Championship Match So here I was, chillin' on the sofa on Sunday morning, trying to watch my rasslin' when all of a sudden I notice the audio is like, 3 full seconds behind what's happening on screen. So I quit the app, restart it, then reconnect … Continue reading NXT Takeover Toronto 2019

Friends! Tomato season is, depending on your location, either starting up in earnest or imminent, and there is no finer method of using fresh tomatoes than Holy fuck, two mass shootings in one day!?!?!?!? What the fuck is happening? using them to make BLTs. Few sandwiches are less understood than the BLT – they are … Continue reading A Note on BLTs

Before I begin, please note that as it turns out, my advice article on Mega Man III is littered with inaccuracies. Many of these are minor; forgetting the correct names of certain special weapons (it's Atomic Fire, not Atomic Heat), failing to list secondary weapon weaknesses (Magnet Man is also weak against Shadow Blade, to … Continue reading A Modest Theory of Hard Video Games

Top Man: Technically, Top Man is weak against the Hard Knuckle, although he's much, much easier with the Mega Buster, and thus the ideal choice for first boss. This fight is pretty simple – close in and blast him when his tops appear on screen, then slide away from him when the tops start coming … Continue reading Mega Man III – Proper Boss Order & Advice

When you DM, you spend a lot of time worrying that despite having pumped hours of work into session prep, your players are going to do something (or ask a question) that you were nonetheless unprepared for. On top of that, when you're doing the prep work, it's impossible not to envision how you see … Continue reading A Brief Note on Insight Checks

As you know, the internet is a detritus-choked toilet filled to the rim with atrocious, unusable cover letter templates. Unless the desired qualifications of the position you're applying for include “Unable to Pass the Turing Test”, all of these templates are utterly fucking useless. Here is the only cover letter template you will ever need … Continue reading The Only Cover Letter Template Worth a Shit

Here's a travel tip for the insane – the next time you need to buy a tube of travel toothpaste, grab the next available flight to the UK and buy it there. A standard-issue US tube of travel toothpaste contains 0.88 fluid ounces of toothpaste, well under the 3 fluid ounce limit for liquids (which … Continue reading Comparative Travel Toothpaste