housekeeping

Shining Force

Want to learn real game design? Play more retro games. “Shining Force” for Sega Genesis is my favorite 16bit RPG, after Lunar: Silver Star Story.

The old, dark Christmas. Rich and folkloric. Mood album for holiday season 2020. $10 on iTunes, BandCamp or Amazon.

Ugh. I wasn’t going to buy this smart mega-expansion. But then I did. At this point productivity is purely a memory.

I miss productivity, I hate the unskippable logos, I’m not a big fan of Steam, and it runs my laptop red hot, but wow is this game something.

iPhone port of the classic SegaCD RPG. Still a wonderfully fun game.

Twitter users! Did you know I twit? Follow @EpithetADay for your daily epithet, courtesy of Matt Rasmussen.

The science podcast about monsters–delving deep into folklore, history, sociology, skepticism and more.

1914-1981. Struggling to understand Robert Aickman’s third-way psychological horror. Three used books on their way.

The blog is back online. Older posts will return as soon as I find a way to rescue them from my broken copy of Blosxom…

Cinematic synths. Remember when the future was cool? My new working music.