A Last Goodbye
This article is a simple transcription of the letters penned for Lexx’s Honest Hearts Letter mod, intended to bring some additional closure for Honest Hearts. These are simple notes added to the gear locker you receive at the end of the DLC. There are four letters, for each of the end states (confronting or evading the White Legs)…
Overthinking Soldier of Fortune: A Naive Game from a More Innocent Time
Raven Software’s 2000 release, Soldier of Fortune, is one of the shooter gems of the nineties and one of the early “realistic” shooters (i.e. brown and spectacularly violent). Its distinguishing gimmick is the use of the GHOUL engine: You can murder people in awesomely graphic ways, from opened craniums to liberated colons and detached limbs.…
Overthinking: Starlancer, Dirty Communists, and Western Good Guys
The Cold War was a simpler time, with a simple, straightforward morality in the West: There were good guys and the bad guys. On one side, there were the righteous Usonians (replace with any NATO country as needed). On the other were the Dirty Communists: Evil, heartless, and immoral, willing to do anything and everything…
Blue and Black (unedited)
The scent of cigarettes and coffee filled the room, drowning out everything else. Thomas was alone. Thomas had company. Thomas was nowhere and everywhere at the same time.
What I Fear
Many things no longer scare me. Darkness does not scare me. Pain does not scare me (mostly). Even death stopped scaring me (as much as it used to). But that doesn’t mean I’m fearless. Fearless is dumb. Fearless is mindless. Those who have no fear are at best too distracted to understand what they fear,…
[Polonia] est omnis divisa in partes tres tudzież D&I w polskim sosie
Po wyborach nie pozostaje mi nic innego, jak zacytować klasyka: Polonia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Jedną z części zamieszkują kosmopolityczni wielkomiejscy liberałowie sceptycznie nastawieni do Narodu i Katolicyzmu, drugą z nich – prowincjonalny, Katolicki Naród, zaś trzecią z nich odszczepieńcy, co nie pasują do żadnego z powyższych. Plemiona te różnią się pomiędzy sobą językiem,…
The Witcher: The Myth of Pasty Slavs
A translated and edited op-ed responding to the oft-mentioned “Slavicness” of the Witcher series. Which doesn’t actually exist in the books. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rivet City and the Brotherhood – An Actual Lore-Based Answer
For my first entry in this little blog, I’ve decided to tackle an issue that surfaces whenever the eastern division of the Brotherhood of Steel are mentioned: What’s going on with Rivet City? A single entry on the Prydwen gave rise to speculation that the Brotherhood violated it in one way or another, including a certain prominent…
A new day, another site on the world wide web.
Just so that the frontpage doesn’t look empty before I start porting my articles, I’m publishing this post. Hi, I’m Tagaziel and this is my site, where I rant at the world and publish the occasional cat or a dozen. Pleased to meet you.