Recently updated blogs

Lately, I’ve gotten a bit tired of the typical modern Euro: mechanically solid, great art, but no real theme or story being told. In the last years, I found myself wondering more and more often “why should I even be playing this?” as combo-heavy, low-interaction games kept coming to my table that wouldn’t produce any memorable moment at all that would distinguish one play from the next. Going into SPIEL …

I don’t know who this guy is or where I found the quote, but it was staring up at me from my notebook this afternoon. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth: People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don-t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. I think that’s very true. “The …

Is your meticulously crafted strategy falling flat during execution? Discover a powerful approach to making your strategic vision a lived reality.This blog post is a summary of our webinar What is Strategy Activation? Watch the on-demand version now. For anyone responsible for leading change transformation in their organization, an effective strategy activation approach is critical to bringing a strategy to life. Too often, strategies are meticulously planned but falter during …

Or, to quote one of the Carry On films, “what’s this thing called, love?”. So if you take a picture of a thing, are you capturing the surface appearance of the thing or its essence? (And why would you care?) Edward Weston took multiple pictures of shells, fruit and perhaps most famously, peppers. What he said about his work was “To see the thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed …

(Disclosure: two members of this game’s development team, Audun Sørlie and John Linneman, have contributed articles to HG101 in the past. This did not factor into the author’s decision to cover the game, which was bought with their own money. This is an independent review.) It’s sometimes redundant to talk about the reputation of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. Developed by American/Russian studio Animation …

Issue #011 of Start Select Reset Zine just went out via snail mail to supporters subscribed at £5 a month or above!Subscribe now and receive exclusive issues of Start Select Reset four times a year!£5 a Month Support the Show 💪Receive My Zine ✉️ £5 Monthly 👏 £100 a Year Support the Show 💪Receive My Zine ✉️ £100 Yearly 📆Issue #011 – NOTICINGNoticing is a solo mapping game encouraging mindful …

Kill Knight is an intense arcade-style isometric shooter that challenges players to master fast-paced combat and strategic use of abilities. Here’s a short guide on how to play and improve your gameplay. Pistols & Active Reloads Your pistols are your primary weapon but come with limited ammo. When your pistols run out, they need to be reloaded. Overdrive Reload: To reload efficiently, press the Shoot Pistols button at the right …

Oh how the mighty have fallen; Committee A of the AAUP used to be a reliable defender of academic freedom, but since its capture by the enemies of academic freedom, it has been going downhill fast. The latest absurd statement...

Strangely compellingBack in August, I posted about an extravagant garden ornament at Peckforton, Cheshire in the form of a large stone carving of an elephant bearing a turreted castle on its back. I mentioned that the symbol of the elephant and castle was a medieval motif (which survives, for example, in the names of some pubs) and that one example of the medieval period was a wood carving in the …

With the track down, wired and tested; time for a little painting. In days of yore I would do this with a brush and it took an age. Now I wait for a reasonable day, take things outside and use the Nevard-lifted method of two or three colours of Halfords finest which takes a matter of minutes. Some cleaning up and a polish of the rail tops and it's done.Retesting …

They once said I couldn’t even give my book away, but I’ve proved them wrong and done just that, but only for a short time. ‘Part Knowledge memoir, part history book and facts of London, this is a wonderfully written gem, with lots of nuanced history about London of which I was totally unaware.’ – Tom Hutley, Member of The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers and top YouTuber with …

Max Pasakorn’s poem “Ghazal for My Gay Ass” bursts forth with playfulness, longing, and hope to be and to have a certain sort of boy.Here they share just one thing about the piece:“I love poetic forms, particularly ones with refrains or repetitions because they signal a kind of internal obsession with certain themes or tropes. When initially drafting "Ghazal for My Gay Ass", I knew one of my obsessions was …

Read more.

We are excited about what the changing of the season has brought us so far and with that, the Law Library of Congress is offering more educational webinars in November. The Law Library of Congress’s next offerings will be a Lunch and Learn webinar concerning the use of secondary sources, an Orientation to Legal Research webinar on federal legislative history, and an Orientation to Law Library Collections webinar with a …

Every once in a (great) while you get that rare someone who speaks with such clear resounding intellect (usually backed by righteous moral outrage) that it leaves one transfixed in awe and wonder. It's an ability to cut to the chase, not just for brevity's sake, but to calculatingly eliminate the subterfuge that lesser minds (as my own) would get needlessly bogged down in before possibly, hopefully climbing out. Two …