This is a collection of my posts from X, my main social and the first place I post everything. You’ll find video game guides, comics, fiction, my writing and author updates, and other topics I cover.
4,845 posts are available here. Each entry keeps the original wording and links back to X.
4,845 posts.
· Games / Gears of War
Gears of War introduction Gears of War is one of my top series. I love the gameplay, the mechanics, the storyline, and the characters. It’s a dark, gritty, twisted alternative to Halo. Halo is Halo, and I’ll talk about that separately, but...
Read the full post· Games / Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Series
Bloodlines vs. Bloodlines 2, looking at the actual differences The original Bloodlines means more to me than the second one, but I want to get into some of the actual differences instead of only saying the first one feels better. Your chara...
Read the full post· Games / Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
The clans in Bloodlines 2 Bloodlines 2 gives you six clans for Phyre: Brujah, Tremere, Banu Haqim, Ventrue, Toreador, and Lasombra. All six are in the base game. Older articles saying Toreador and Lasombra require an extra purchase are out...
Read the full post· Games / Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
The seven clans in the original Bloodlines Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines gives you seven playable clans. This is something worth looking at before you start, because your choice can change more than the powers you use in a fight. It...
Read the full post· Comics / Grimm Universe
I’ve been working my way through a lot of Grimm Fairy Tales, and I’ve had a hell of a blast with how much there is to this universe. Snow White vs. Snow White is one of the stories I wanted to spend a little more time talking about. You’ve...
Read the full post· Comics / Grimm Universe
All right, another character I wanted to talk about from Grimm Fairy Tales is Slander. He’s a dragon who shows up in Snow White vs. Snow White, and there’s a little more going on with him than you might expect from that description. When we...
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Rhyme and Reason are two more dragons from Grimm Fairy Tales that I wanted to put on the list to talk about. Even the names give you something to work with. You hear “rhyme and reason” as an expression all the time, then you’ve got it attac...
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OpenAI discontinued "Prism". They are shutting it down and deleting all data.
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is on my list, and I will most certainly be playing it. I haven't played this version yet. I'm working my way through Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and 2 first, and I want to get through those before I mov...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Invictus
Assassin’s Creed Invictus: RUMORS, PLAYTEST REPORTS, AND THE FALL GUYS COMPARISON Invictus has probably picked up more baggage from one comparison than anything else on this list. People hear Fall Guys and immediately picture a particular k...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Invictus
Invictus, post 1: confirmed details Codename Invictus is Assassin’s Creed’s upcoming PvP multiplayer project, being developed at Ubisoft Montreal by a team that includes For Honor veterans. That is confirmed. It doesn’t automatically mean i...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Hexe
Assassin’s Creed Hexe: RUMORS AND POSSIBLE STORY SPOILERS This is where the details get a lot more interesting, but also a lot less settled. There are different versions of the story floating around, and I don’t want to pretend they all fit...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Hexe
Hexe, post 1: confirmed details Codename Hexe is the darker Assassin’s Creed project Ubisoft Montreal is working on. Ubisoft describes it as a story-driven experience, and Jean Guesdon took over as creative director while also serving as th...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Jade
Assassin’s Creed Jade: RUMORS, DELAYS, AND WHAT STILL ISN’T CONFIRMED Jade has been quiet long enough that people are trying to fill in the blanks themselves. There are a few different things getting mixed together here, so I wanted to go t...
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Jade, post 1: confirmed details After going through the games already released, I wanted to look at the three upcoming Assassin’s Creed projects separately. There’s a lot of information floating around, and I want to keep what the developer...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Shadows — do the choices change the ending? This isn't another Odyssey-style hunt for the right combination of dialogue choices to get a different main ending. Shadows has a fixed destination for its main story. The choices change parts of...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Claws of Awaji
Claws of Awaji — getting in and cleaning up the combat challenges Finish Naoe, Yasuke and Junjiro's personal quests, then Out of the Shadows. After that, find Hanzo's contact at the Settsu hideout to start Awaji. Also, the bo introduction w...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Assassin’s Creed Shadows: all twenty-two Kuji-kiri This is Naoe’s collection. Here are the named locations by province, so you can finish one part of the map at a time. - Izumi Settsu: Eboshigata Hachiman Shrine and Sacred Bridge, both Kawa...
Read the full post· Games / Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Shadows: where I'd start with the skills Practical base-game advice, not a claim to list every post-launch skill. One of the things I liked about Shadows was having two characters who actually felt different. The skills are worth treating t...
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows: achievement checklist, including the updates The current Epic list has seventy-five achievements. That isn't seventy-five launch achievements: it's fifty-four original objectives, eleven for Claws of Awaji, and ten...
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