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

Hey everybody, heading out of the country for about a week and a half. There will be no posts during this time, (ir)regular programming will resume the week of the 15th. Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fQESUBMwGg

Cybernator is a game for Super Nintendo. You play as a giant mech suit., and you shoot at things and blow them up. It's a damn fun game, having been made by Konami in the early 90s, when they were untouchable, but it's also really, really dang hard. For starters, the controls come with a … Continue reading Why Do I Suck At Cybernator?

I've been running Hoard of the Dragon Queen for my Raleigh Dungeons & Dragons crew. I had played through it with my Chicago group a few years ago, and I thought it was plenty of fun – it has some cool fights, and that's really all I would ask of any D&D module – so … Continue reading On Railroading

Been kinda quiet here lately – I've been too caught up in Baldur's Gate and doing Dungeon Master prep to get much in the way of writing done. Such are hobbies; occasionally, they fall by the wayside to make room for uh...other hobbies. I am working on a far too long post about the band … Continue reading Grab Bag – 6/17/19

I know, I know, I KNOW. As of this writing, Double or Nothing happened about a week and a half ago, and despite my interest in it, and despite being very, very down on WWE these days, to the point that I haven't even been watching NXT regularly for the past couple months or so, … Continue reading NXT Takeover XXV Review