Hi! This is the blog of a reclusive Gen-X software developer. I write twice a month about games or whatever else is going on. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2025.

Free Stadia Game Phase

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And now we move into videos of games I’ve played during a Free Two-Month Stadia Pro Trial phase (which I got from someone at my new job). There are a whole lot of free games to click on and play with a Stadia subscription, but the down side is that 99% of them are games you’ve never heard of before. (618 words.)

Those D&D Shows

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Some Twitter activity prompted me to think about how and why I follow some D&D shows. (2005 words.)

The Random Game Era Begins

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Before and after I started a new job in March, my gaming time and interest plummeted to nothing, so I commenced a period of short gaming sessions of mainly free games and demos which continues to this very day. (319 words.)

Stadia Pro Free Trial

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I got a two-month free trial of Stadia Pro and have been trying it out. (729 words.)

Valheim and Outriders

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I don’t get the Valheim craze and I wasn’t wowed by Outriders either. There, I said it. (556 words.)

Starting A New Job

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I’m pleased to announce that on March 1st, I started a new software engineering job, working generally in the field of “IT infrastructure lifecycle management.” This is a pretty big, life-changing sort of job for me. (1355 words.)

Tyranny

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Somehow March is almost upon us, and I still haven’t written about Tyranny, the other free game I got from the Epic Store oh so long ago now. It was the next in a burst of isometric CRPG games that I played around Christmas time, which started with Wasteland 2 and then Pillars of Eternity. (361 words.)