Tag Archives: Games

2 Free Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 Guest Passes

One of the games I play, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, was updated on May 31st. With that update, all owners of the game received 2 guest passes for Red Orchestra, available over Steam. Seeing as the friends of mine who game either already have the game or aren’t interested in it, I have 2 guest [...]

Make a nation, today!

An online nation, that is, at NationStates.net. NationStates is a political “sim” game, where you guide your nation by choosing a stance on different issues. You can also emulate real nations by “dismissing” the issue, which is a just what our governments do all the time: ignore an issue until it (hopefully) goes away.
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I’ve been drawn into magic again.

No, I’m not casting spells; at least not real ones. By “magic”, I mean Magic: the Gathering, of course. I’ve recently been pulled into the game again by my older nephew (don’t ask). The last time I played was probably about 10 or 11 years ago, when he and I played regularly. I was a [...]

Tabletop games are actually a lot of fun.

This past weekend there was a Viking boat work party which I attended. We didn’t get a great deal of work done on the boat, but that wasn’t really in the planning anyway. We did some dimensions-wrangling on the plans for the Arby boat, a small one-man boat the Vikings used. We also finished rewiring [...]

Disappearing stuff? Maybe disappearing memory.

I posted yesterday about my puzzlement about my copy of Zelda: Ocarina of Time missing. Today, after looking in all of the likely spots again (and quite a few of the not likely), it finally hit me. I can’t find my copy of Zelda: Ocarina of Time because I don’t own a copy of Zelda: [...]