Random Diversions

With G+ on the way out, I've been looking at alternative channels for communication. My findings thus far are... disappointing. I joined...

It's taken a while, but my new base is (mostly) back up and running. Moving your entire network takes a bit of planning, because once yo...

I guess I should have posted something before I took a week away from the computer to do some house-sitting! This is a quick update about th...

Looking around my shop today, I don't see many changes, but they're there, honest! Last post  I set up the core of an Applied Energi...

This week, I think I actually accomplished some stuff in my Direwolf20 mod pack world. Last update , I dealt with some niggling stuff, but I...

Last week's post covered some of the changes/improvements I made to my base in my current game of Minecraft. Since then, I've been ...

After my somewhat disastrous trip to the Nether last report , I spent last week working on base improvements. After upgrading base power to ...

I had limited time for Minecraft this week, but I did get a few things done. In the last post , I mentioned doing some basic automation to k...

I've been playing my modded Minecraft world a bit since my last post , making slow progress on my base, doing a bunch of mining, and cre...

In my recent recap of 2015, I mentioned my last Minecraft series, the City Builder Challenge , died a death of ennui. Rather than trying to...

Stage four of my Citybuilder Challenge city is now done. This was a fairly easy stage to complete because most of the groundwork was in pla...

No, I haven't given up yet. Stage three of my Minecraft Citybuilder Challenge is now done, with some extras in place that put me part w...

I'm still progressing on my Minecraft Citybuilder Challenge . Looking over what I've built and written about to date, I've reali...

First Settlement The first stage of my Citybuilder Challenge is now complete. It took more time than I'd hoped, mostly because I wa...

I haven't played Minecraft in a while, since patch 1.8.0 or so, and I feel like building something, so I've decided to take on a Cit...

GRAV, by BitMonster , is a science fiction shooter/sandbox with procedural planets, dungeons, building, crafting and more. It's currentl...

Skyforge is a new action/RPG/MMO hybrid game from the same development team that created Allods, a traditional WoW-style MMO. I played a fa...

This is a hard review for me to write. I really dislike being completely negative about a video game experience, because there's a ton o...

Grim Dawn is a PC action-RPG created by Crate Entertainment, an indie studio staffed by veterans of Iron Lore, creators of Titan Quest . It...

One of my gaming friends has been a long-time fan of the MechWarrior video games. He finally convinced me to give the latest incarnation Mec...