Over the past couple of years, I’ve been regularly playing digital boardgames online on Steam with one of my friend groups, I thought I’d do reviews of them. This is my fourth such review, and this time I’m gonna talk about Root. This is a IRL boardgame by Leder Games with the Steam version published by Dire Wolf Digital.
Root is a competitive game themed about multiple factions vying for supremacy in a forest area.
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May 2021
Apr 2021
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This looks amazing #gaming - GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon Teaser Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXDcMVvtPh4
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Akira Kazama teaser for Street Fighter V #gaming https://youtu.be/IOdgfo7OaLI
Mar 2021
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After five years of languishing in the bronze ranks of Street Fighter V, I somehow managed to break through to silver!! #gaming
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve been regularly playing digital boardgames online on Steam with one of my friend groups, I thought I’d do reviews of them. Today’s review is for Blood Rage: Digital Edition. This is a Norse mythology themed game based on a IRL boardgame. It’s one of those “place your guys on the map” boardgame where each player vies for control of provinces. The game is divided into three ages, and at the end of each age one of the provinces is destroyed as part of ragnarok.
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[Team Camote] - StarCraft 2 Showmatch - hungryroy (me) vs tzia_n #starcraft2 #gaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bINjaPjt1M
The rest of our games are in this youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5c1J8DcHGjdzou13Vcn9eydWENvFb652
Feb 2021
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A while back, on a whim I purchased this indie game Knightin’ on Steam. I forget how I came across it and why I decided to buy, but no regrets. It’s a tightly-focused dungeon crawler in the style of original Legend of Zelda/Link to the Past dungeons. Each dungeon is a set of rooms you clear one at a time, until you get to the dungeon boss and beat him. Clearing rooms involves defeating enemies, solving puzzles, avoiding obstacles and opening chests.
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve been regularly playing digital boardgames online on Steam with one of my friend groups, I thought I’d do reviews of them. My second review is about Scythe: Digital Edition. Scythe is a competitive game where you play one of seven factions in an alternate history post-war Eastern Europe. Players vie to control territories, hire workers, build mechs, accumulate resources, accomplish secret objectives, and other such goals.
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve been regularly playing digital boardgames online on Steam with one of my friend groups, I thought I’d do reviews of them. The first one is Sentinels of the Multiverse. We’ve played the IRL boardgame of it before during one of our sporadic in-person meetups. If you’re not familiar, it’s a comics-themed coop game where up to 4 people play as a group of heroes to beat a villain (basically comic book shenanigans).
Dec 2020
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After playing through Super Mario 3D All Stars in October, I borrowed a copy of Super Mario Odyssey for the Nintendo Switch from my brother and played through it for most of November. Odyssey was the main reason I actually got a Switch; I played through a few worlds at a friends house during a single session and loved it, so I had been meaning to get the console just for Odyssey alone.
Oct 2020
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So I got a Nintendo Switch last month. One of the first games I had gotten for the system was the recently released Super Mario 3d All-Stars. I had really been wanting to play Super Mario Odyssey instead, but my brother had a copy of that game that I could borrow later, so I decided to get 3dAS first, as I had never really played the 3 games on the collection.
Sep 2020
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I finished Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End yesterday, and I felt like making a post about it, since I had a bunch of screenshots. Late game review because the game came out in 2016. I think I got it from PS+? Certainly didn’t pay for it. I first played the original Uncharted trilogy back in 2010-2011, but I found out just now while writing this post that I never finished Uncharted 3 (started yes, apparently), so that explains why some story elements seemed unfamiliar in the 4th game.
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Just finished Disco Elysium. This game is fantastic
Aug 2020
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We first got a PS3 waaaay back in 2008.
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Finally finished Divinity Original Sin 2. Not sure if I should do a review since due to character choices and party comp, I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of the content, and it might take a couple more runs to alleviate that. But it’s a great turn-based RPG!
Jul 2020
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Just in time for #JRPGJuly, I finally managed to complete my platinum run for Final Fantasy VII Remake! Spoiler-free review first, then the rest of the sections are no-holds barred. (Click to view full-size) 22 Jul 2020 12:00amView postClose Spoiler-free review The game is a fantastic retelling of the original FF7’s Midgar section. The plot largely tracks the original, except greatly expounded. More plot details are added to expound on character details and backstories, especially for supporting characters like Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie, and even for Shinra corporation itself.
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I was going through some old emails and found some receipts for things I had purchased from the iTunes App Store for my iPad, and I wondered how much have I actually spent on apps/games on the App Store? I went through all the receipts and decided to write mini-reviews for each item as well: Purchase Date Name Price (USD) Still Available on App Store? Notes 2010/10/30 Alien Blue HD - Reddit Client (Unofficial), v1.
May 2020
Mar 2020
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I recorded myself struggling to beat the Cyclops boss from Megaman 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiWhBlrGiK8 #gaming
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Some gaming things I’m looking forward to in the coming weeks: 12 Mar: Historic anthology 2 and return of Historic ranked in Magic Arena. Looking forward to new cards being added to the Historic pool! 18 Mar: Release of Federations DLC for Stellaris. I’m not planning to get the DLC, what I’m looking forward to is the accompanying free patch since one of the promises is improved late-game performance, something which made playing this game very annoying during the past year.
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For the past month, most of my gaming time was spent on the Steam version of Tales of Berseria, which I got from a Humble Monthly Bundle back in 2018. Summary: One of the best entries in the Tales series. Has fun combat, a great cast, a darker story and a really good aesthetic. My notes: I’m a big fan of the Tales series of games, ever since Phantasia on the SNES and Destiny on the PS1, and I take the opportunity to play them whenever they come out for a console I actually have. -
Streaming: Blind Frostpunk Run https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #twitch #gaming
YT mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey81Sqwoq0w
Feb 2020
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Streaming Theros Ranked Draft https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
Draft went 1.5 hrs. Did I finally get to 7 wins?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWFUfJ2Cs8
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More Theros Ranked Draft https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
The stream went 2hrs, and I completed two drafts, so you know they didn’t do well.
YT mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi6RBkFutpU
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Streaming even more Theros Ranked Draft https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
Stream recap: 1.25 hrs. Finished the prior draft 5-3, then started a new one and almost immediately lost 1-3 lol. More next week! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43NOh1vwlA
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Streaming some more Theros Ranked Draft https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
Didn’t finish the draft, only went 5 games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBKgKoKxOEU
Jedi mind trick highlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKjDs1d_fg
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Streaming some more Theros Ranked Draft https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
1.5 drafts again in 2 hours for this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ5vQneGrfE. Still yet to get to 7 wins, too many misplays!
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Streaming some Theros Ranked Draft: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
I did one and a half-drafts for this stream, so it went 2 hours again. First draft was terrible, 2nd was much better, but ran out of time to finish it, stopped at 3-1.
YT mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-dheAwc4i8
Jan 2020
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I rarely tell other people my dreams anymore because it feels kind of weird, but this one was too good to pass up. It involves pro streamers and the fighting game community.
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Streaming some casual Theros Sealed: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #twitch #gaming #mtg Stream lasted 2+ hours, but I finally managed to 7-2 a sealed, even with a crappy pool!
Youtube mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4a553Jo2o&feature=youtu.be Highlight: NIGHTMARE HORSE!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4a553Jo2o&feature=youtu.be
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Casually streaming Magic Arena with Standard Bogles https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
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Streaming Theros Sealed on MTG Arena again: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
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Gonna stream some Theros Sealed, come watch me be terrible, if you like https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy
Youtube mirror:
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i set up my pc for streaming and recorded did a test stream with a Slay the Spire run with the new Watcher class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuTGE1lYLo
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Apparently I’m not done looking back at the 2010s yet. I had some “top tens of 2010s” discussions with some friends recently, here are my personal lists, each in no particular order: My Top Ten Movies of the 2010s Avengers Endgame (2019).. I’m keeping only one slot per franchise, so I had to choose an MCU movies for this. Runner-ups for this slot were Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America Winter Soldier, and individually either one of those movies might be around the same or better than Endgame, but Endgame is the culmination of a decade’s worth of movies and gave me the most enjoyment as a comic book fan.
Dec 2019
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Kind of a late game review since this game came out in 2016, but XCom 2 is the game I’ve been playing the past couple of weeks. (the newer one, not Terror from the Deep, though that was fun too). I finished my first run yesterday, just on normal (Veteran) difficulty, nothing special, but here are my thoughts on the game: Overall: a fantastic follow-up to the 2012 game adding more mission variation, more unique soldier roles, more unique items, more enemies, and a more involved geoscape The story conceit is a lot more original than TFTD was (“Ooh, it’s like UFO Defense, except now the aliens are underwater! -
Are there any region restrictions for these? I’m still bitter over not getting SOULCALIBUR VI
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Reply to 'Name your bot teammate' on /r/gaming:
Someone once messaged me in Words with Friends to ask if I was a bot lol
Nov 2019
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I bought the Outer Worlds earlier this month, mainly because I had been without both my graphics card and my PS4 for a bit and I kind of wanted to play a relatively new game. I got the PS4 version because I hadn’t yet replaced my video card at the time and besides, the game was not available on Steam. I guess minor spoilers follow. Summary: A reasonable Fallout-esque RPG from the makers of Fallout: New Vegas.
Oct 2019
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Reply to a comment by TRN_WhiteKnight on 'Just cancelled my preorder for Overwatch on Switch' on /r/gaming:
they banned and revoked the prizes for a hearthstone player who spoke a slogan in favor of the hong kong protests during a livestreamed postmatch unterview
Sep 2019
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Despite my desktop PC being generally more stable after the events of the Great Memory Scare of 2019, I was still encountering occasionally crashes when playing games. And by crash I mean the displays dying although the PC continues to run for a short while thereafter and after which they proceed to apparently stop operating completely. It only happens when playing games, and most often when playing Magic Arena and sometimes (rarely) when playing Starcraft 2 or Borderlands 2.
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Magic Arena’s community was in an uproar this past weekend over the latest state of the beta, mostly over the announced plans for Arena’s eternal Historic format that will become relevant with the coming rotation. It’s likely that Wizards will backpedal in some way in response to the community, but here are my thoughts for now: Historic cards to cost double wildcards to craft This is the universally-reviled bit and has been the target of much outrage, accursing Wizards of being greedy etc.
Aug 2019
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I might be lending out my PS4 next month when the latest annual release of a sports franchise rolls around, so I figured I’d finish off a PS4 game before the console vanishes on me for a few months. What Remains of Edith Finch came out on PS+ a couple of months ago and people are always raving about how good it is and how it’s relatively short, so I decided to give it a go.
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My current desktop PC has been with me since late 2015, so going on 4 years now. I bought relatively high-end parts for it at the time, hoping to be a bit future-proof so that it would last me longer than previous desktops. So I was a bit worried when I started encountering issues during the recent weeks. Here’s the timeline: May 2019, before my overseas trip. It happened a few times that the computer would completely shut down while I was playing Starcraft 2 coop.
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I wonder if they’ll bother adding some logic to the next elder scrolls where npcs get offended if you place objects on them. Otherwise people are getting buckets on their heads again.
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This past weekend was EVO 2019, the world’s biggest celebrations of fighting games. If I had stayed in the US another month maybe I could have gone to Vegas to attend and lose badly. Instead, I thought I’d write about fighting games. I consider fighting games one of my weaknesses, in the sense that (a) I easily succumb to the temptation to spend money on them; and (b) I’m not very good at them.
May 2019
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I remember when playing the original version of Civilization back in the day, the “most advanced” form of government was Democracy, with the only downside of it being you can’t declare war (because you had a senate that would stop you.) The other available forms of government were typically not very useful, but Democracy massively increased your trade output, so most often I would build the Pyramids (a wonder which allowed switching to any government immediately and without penalty), and spend the rest of the game toggling between Democracy and Despotism (for when I wanted to go to war).
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I often prefer having a randomly changing background wallpaper, even back in the day when Windows didn’t support it natively and I had to install various plugins to support it. I like the variance! The one I’ve been using recently was this set of wallpapers based on Street Fighter stage backgrounds, which I got from a reddit thread that I unfortunately can’t find anymore (I’ll update this post if I find it later).