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2020 January

• Streaming some casual Theros Sealed: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #twitch #gaming #mtg

  Stream lasted 2+ hours, but I finally managed to 7-2 a sealed, even with a crappy pool!

  Youtube mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4a553Jo2o&feature=youtu.be Highlight: NIGHTMARE HORSE!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4a553Jo2o&feature=youtu.be

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Jan. 25, 2020, 8:30 p.m. #twitch #gaming #mtg

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• Trying out some SC2 Coop Brutation https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy

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  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Jan. 24, 2020, 10:57 p.m. #twitch #gaming #starcraft2

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• Casually streaming Magic Arena with Standard Bogles https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Jan. 24, 2020, 7:49 p.m. #twitch #gaming #mtg

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• Streaming Theros Sealed on MTG Arena again: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Jan. 18, 2020, 6:24 p.m. #twitch #gaming #mtg

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• Gonna stream some Theros Sealed, come watch me be terrible, if you like https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy

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  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Jan. 17, 2020, 7:47 p.m. #twitch #gaming #mtg

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• i set up my pc for streaming and recorded did a test stream with a Slay the Spire run with the new Watcher class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuTGE1lYLo

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Jan. 16, 2020, 12:33 p.m. #twitch #gaming

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• My Top Tens of the 2010s

  Jan. 11, 2020, 8 a.m.

  Apparently I'm not done looking back at the 2010s yet. I had some "top tens of 2010s" discussions with some friends recently, here are my personal lists, each in no particular order: My Top Ten Movies of the 2010s Avengers Endgame (2019).. I'm keeping only one slot per franchise, so I had to choose an MCU movies for this. Runner-ups for this slot were Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America Winter Soldier, and individually either one of those movies might be around the same or better than Endgame, but Endgame is the culmination of a decade's worth of movies

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Jan. 11, 2020, 8 a.m. #movies #tv #gaming

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2019 December

• Review: XCom 2

  Dec. 27, 2019, 8 a.m.

  

  Kind of a late game review since this game came out in 2016, but XCom 2 is the game I've been playing the past couple of weeks. (the newer one, not Terror from the Deep, though that was fun too). I finished my first run yesterday, just on normal (Veteran) difficulty, nothing special, but here are my thoughts on the game: Overall: a fantastic follow-up to the 2012 game adding more mission variation, more unique soldier roles, more unique items, more enemies, and a more involved geoscape The story conceit is a lot more original than TFTD was ("Ooh, it's

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Dec. 27, 2019, 8 a.m. #gaming

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• 💬 Reply to 'Final Humble Monthly Bundle & First Month of Humble Choice Games Announced!' on /r/Games:

  Are there any region restrictions for these? I'm still bitter over not getting SOULCALIBUR VI

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Dec. 7, 2019, 12:54 p.m. #gaming

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• 💬 Reply to 'Name your bot teammate' on /r/gaming:

  Someone once messaged me in Words with Friends to ask if I was a bot lol

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Dec. 6, 2019, 5:44 p.m. #gaming

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2019 November

• Review: The Outer Worlds

  Nov. 26, 2019, 8 a.m.

  

  I bought the Outer Worlds earlier this month, mainly because I had been without both my graphics card and my PS4 for a bit and I kind of wanted to play a relatively new game. I got the PS4 version because I hadn't yet replaced my video card at the time and besides, the game was not available on Steam. I guess minor spoilers follow. Summary: A reasonable Fallout-esque RPG from the makers of Fallout: New Vegas. It's not as expansive or quite as nonlinear as their previous games, but it's pretty serviceable and there's a reasonable amount of stuff

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Nov. 26, 2019, 8 a.m. #gaming 📷gaming

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2019 October

• 💬 Reply to a comment by TRN_WhiteKnight on 'Just cancelled my preorder for Overwatch on Switch' on /r/gaming:

  they banned and revoked the prizes for a hearthstone player who spoke a slogan in favor of the hong kong protests during a livestreamed postmatch unterview

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Oct. 10, 2019, 1:37 a.m. #gaming

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2019 September

• A Tale of Two Backups

  Sept. 20, 2019, 8 p.m.

  Despite my desktop PC being generally more stable after the events of the Great Memory Scare of 2019, I was still encountering occasionally crashes when playing games. And by crash I mean the displays dying although the PC continues to run for a short while thereafter and after which they proceed to apparently stop operating completely. It only happens when playing games, and most often when playing Magic Arena and sometimes (rarely) when playing Starcraft 2 or Borderlands 2. Given that I didn't want to try swapping out the video card just yet, and I had already tried doing all

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Sept. 20, 2019, 8 p.m. #tech-life #gaming

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• MTG Arena: Thoughts on Historic

  Sept. 1, 2019, 8 a.m.

  Magic Arena's community was in an uproar this past weekend over the latest state of the beta, mostly over the announced plans for Arena's eternal Historic format that will become relevant with the coming rotation. It's likely that Wizards will backpedal in some way in response to the community, but here are my thoughts for now: Historic cards to cost double wildcards to craft This is the universally-reviled bit and has been the target of much outrage, accursing Wizards of being greedy etc. On this point I am in agreement with the community that yes, this sucks. On the other

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Sept. 1, 2019, 8 a.m. #ccgs #mtg #gaming

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2019 August

• Games: What Remains of Edith Finch

  Aug. 23, 2019, 8 a.m.

  I might be lending out my PS4 next month when the latest annual release of a sports franchise rolls around, so I figured I'd finish off a PS4 game before the console vanishes on me for a few months. What Remains of Edith Finch came out on PS+ a couple of months ago and people are always raving about how good it is and how it's relatively short, so I decided to give it a go. I went in blind, not knowing anything, since mysteriously no one on Reddit could explain what makes the game good. This is understandably so

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Aug. 23, 2019, 8 a.m. #gaming

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• The Great Memory Scare of 2019

  Aug. 22, 2019, 8 a.m.

  

  My current desktop PC has been with me since late 2015, so going on 4 years now. I bought relatively high-end parts for it at the time, hoping to be a bit future-proof so that it would last me longer than previous desktops. So I was a bit worried when I started encountering issues during the recent weeks. Here's the timeline: May 2019, before my overseas trip. It happened a few times that the computer would completely shut down while I was playing Starcraft 2 coop. The displays would go black, but they still had power, and for a little

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Aug. 22, 2019, 8 a.m. #tech-life #gaming

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• 💬 Reply to 'No one messes with the Nords.' on /r/gaming:

  I wonder if they'll bother adding some logic to the next elder scrolls where npcs get offended if you place objects on them. Otherwise people are getting buckets on their heads again.

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at Aug. 8, 2019, 3:30 p.m. #gaming

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• Fighting Games

  Aug. 7, 2019, 8 a.m.

  

  This past weekend was EVO 2019, the world's biggest celebrations of fighting games. If I had stayed in the US another month maybe I could have gone to Vegas to attend and lose badly. Instead, I thought I'd write about fighting games. I consider fighting games one of my weaknesses, in the sense that (a) I easily succumb to the temptation to spend money on them; and (b) I'm not very good at them. Example of (a): I'm pretty sure I've purchased Street Fighter IV on at least 4 different platforms, including all DLC. Example of (b): I have yet

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at Aug. 7, 2019, 8 a.m. #gaming

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2019 May

• Civilization, Liberal Democracy, and Authoritarianism

  May 26, 2019, 1:56 p.m.

  I remember when playing the original version of Civilization back in the day, the "most advanced" form of government was Democracy, with the only downside of it being you can't declare war (because you had a senate that would stop you.) The other available forms of government were typically not very useful, but Democracy massively increased your trade output, so most often I would build the Pyramids (a wonder which allowed switching to any government immediately and without penalty), and spend the rest of the game toggling between Democracy and Despotism (for when I wanted to go to war). This

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at May 26, 2019, 1:56 p.m. #current-events #politics #philippines #gaming

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• Street Fighter Background Wallpapers

  May 7, 2019, 1:56 p.m.

  

  I often prefer having a randomly changing background wallpaper, even back in the day when Windows didn't support it natively and I had to install various plugins to support it. I like the variance! The one I've been using recently was this set of wallpapers based on Street Fighter stage backgrounds, which I got from a reddit thread that I unfortunately can't find anymore (I'll update this post if I find it later). In the meantime, I thought I'd share: (I also took this opportunity to install a Hugo gallery plugin for this sort of thing. Credits to Hugo Easy

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  Posted by Roy Tang under blog at May 7, 2019, 1:56 p.m. #gaming #wallpapers

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