Category: video games

  • bardo the air privateer, part two

    bardo the air privateer, part two

    Winter flying is a mixed bag.  Heck, in the last few weeks since I first posted about my new wandering adventures through the virtual airspaces I have officially traversed the rocky mountains and defeated all sorts of variable weather. The worst of it was landing blind in a snowstorm in the Kootenays, but even my

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  • bardo the air privateer, part one

    bardo the air privateer, part one

    Well, darn. The new-ish Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was ported and released on the PS5 …in late 2025 …which is almost 2026, so you figure that one out? But anyhow. I, like a fool, bought it and now I’m trying to rekindle my virtual flying madskillz to set off on another adventure in and around

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  • game con-spiration

    game con-spiration

    I’ve been a lazy game developer lately.  A couple months ago I was proudly telling people how much progress I was making on Pleck’s Mart. Heck I was logging at least—at least—a couple hours every day adding to the code base and debugging the game and making art and then sitting at the cafe writing

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  • game: civilization seven

    game: civilization seven

    Would you say that I got this game for free? I mean, I didn’t pay for it. I ordered it using points. AirMiles(TM). So it wasn’t strictly free because, I mean, those points have a kind of real and tangible value, but they are not money in the sense that I could buy anything but

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