Roy Tang

Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart.

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Aug 2021

Jul 2021

  • The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is out on Steam! I did a Let’s Play + commentary with some friends for the first hour or so of the game:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-jAUOpQUO4

    #gaming

    The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is out on Steam! I did a Let’s Play + commentary with some friends for the first hour or so of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-jAUOpQUO4
#gaming
    The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is out on Steam! I did a Let’s Play + commentary with some friends for the first hour or so of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-jAUOpQUO4
#gaming
    The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is out on Steam! I did a Let’s Play + commentary with some friends for the first hour or so of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-jAUOpQUO4
#gaming
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  • ComSat and CompShops

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  • I played almost all of FF8 junctioning only 1 of a spell to each stat, not considering that increasing the number might lead to better stats. Got all the way to the final boss this way, which felt impossible with my low stats #gaming

    Quoted AndyLunique's tweet:

    I played through about 20 hours of Skyrim before I was aware of fast travel in the game.

    I also got to the end of disc 1 in FF7 before realizing I could equip weapons and materia.

    Has anyone else made these kinds of mistakes?

    Posted by under notes at #gaming
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Jun 2021

May 2021

  • 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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Apr 2021

Mar 2021

Feb 2021

  • Game Review: Knightin'

    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).

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Dec 2019

Nov 2019

  • Review: The Outer Worlds

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Oct 2019

Sep 2019

  • A Tale of Two Backups

    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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    Posted by under post at #tech life #gaming
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  • MTG Arena: Thoughts on Historic

    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.

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Aug 2019

  • 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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