Just before I finished my vacation last week, and needed to get back to work, I finished this lil' game.  I started this back in August. I started this because I thought it would be a game I could jump in and out of during a very (very very very very) busy term, but in reality I didn't have much of a chance to play around with it too much. Much of my play through happened during the Thanksgiving

Over the last few years, I've been looking for older sci-fi shows  to watch. This is was a short (13 episode) quirky buddy-cop/sidekick series. Automan is short for "Automatic Man."  One of the series protagonists, Walter Nebicher, creates an artificially intelligent crimefighting computer program that generates a hologram (Automan) able to leave the computer world at night and fight

Next up in my 2025 Year In Review roundup, is xbox.  Again, this year, Microsoft didn't do anything official (boooo!!!), but we've got True Achievements to the rescue.  Most notable here is that casual games are less prominent on my account this year since I stopped playing Casual games on my pixel tablet while watching television, so the games here represent just xbox gaming.  The

This is my other November binge on Netflix ;-) I am a huge fan of the Splinter Cell series and got excited when this was announced earlier this year (a game that picks up after Blacklist would be nice, but I guess we'll take this for now!)In this series, the story finds an older Sam Fisher living in isolation in rural Poland, having left the world of espionage behind. His quiet life is interrupted

This was my November binge. It was a short series, so it was a short two week binge, but still a binge. Having played some of Cyberpunk on the xbox one at some point this year, I thought I'd give this a try.  The game was fine, but I was having a hard time getting into it. Maybe the pacing was off, maybe I was too impatient, but I got stuck somewhere early on in the game (after you learn

I saw the entire series in October 2025, mostly to be a completionist about the NCIS universe series.  This series has no raison d'être. It feels stiff, and do we really care about these two characters when they are separated from the NCIS pack?So, what is this series about?  Well, after Ziva resurfaces in 2020, she goes to Paris to meet with Tony and Tali (their kid).  Tony is now

Since it's October, and I live in Salem, why not binge something Witchy?  I came across the Mayfair Witches recently, so this seemed like a good October series to binge.The core plot revolves around Rowan, a medical doctor who is a witch, but doesn't know it. When her mother is in distress, her power manifest themselves (surprise, I guess?), which gets the Talamasca's hackles up.  They are

Aaaaannnndddd.... I am all caught up with the COD series...at least the Black Ops variety.  I still have MW III to complete. And, apparently, Black Ops 7, which is coming out later this month?I started this on 7/20/25, and I finished it at the end of August, just in time before the academic year started.This series is a direct sequel to Cold War, which hopefully means that Black Ops now has some

I was reluctant to start Cold War, because I wasn't looking for another period shooter, but when I was looking into it and saw that it was the continuation of Black Ops, I decided to give it a try. I started the campaign on 7/1/25 and completed it 7/20/25.The game was fun.  I wasn't sure how much I'd like the Cold War setting, but I really dug the 80s vibe of the game. Smoke-filled CIA rooms,

My next entry in the series was Call of Duty: Black Ops III.  Having played Black Ops, and Black Ops II a while back (it's somewhere in this blog), I decided to continue on with this one (instead of replaying the older entries).  I started the campaign on 5/24/25 and finished it on 6/30/25. I did play a bit of Zombies, and a bit of the arcade, and while fun, I ended up leaving those until