Kontroversial Keith

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  • Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred Review

    Originally, my expectations for the expansion were quite low based on a few things that I had tried in the PTR as well as the supposedly lauded “raid” or “coop dungeon” (as Blizzard prefers to term it). The story itself wasn’t something I felt would be exciting and I had no idea what the Spiritborn…

  • Bard’s Tale 3: My Class Evaluation

    After this latest play through of Bard’s Tale 3, I figured it might be a good time to do a full class write up, going over strengths, weaknesses, some party ideas and my own experiences.

  • Bard’s Tale 3: Last Day

    I just realized that the Diablo 4 expansion starts tomorrow rather than on Tuesday (for NA/PST), which means my Bard’s Tale 3 play through is coming to an end. Truthfully, I was getting a little burnt out and while the thought experiment of having a three Geomancer party sounded novel, I figured it would just…

  • Bard’s Tale 3: Possible Change In Party Configuration

    Today, I managed to push my secondary party through to the end game of Malefia. Right now, I’m merely grinding out levels. While I’m not exactly struggling, I do find a few situations to cause my party a little grief, namely with regards to my Monk. Originally, I had wanted a Monk as part of…

  • The Shanghai Thirteen Movie Review

    Despite having numerous Shaw Brothers alumni and Chang Cheh as the director, The Shanghai Thirteen (1984) was not a Shaw Brothers production. Instead, it was produced by someone named Chan Hsi-Fan, whom I don’t recognize, and was written by Chang Cheh himself. I read elsewhere that around this period, Chang Cheh was 60 and nearing…

  • The Five Venoms Movie Review

    One of the most revered kung fu movies is the Shaw Brothers/Chang Cheh classic The Five Venoms. While there were previous movies involving various members of this particular cast, it was The Five Venoms that really skyrocketed the careers of five individuals that became Chang Cheh’s next round of superstars in his kung fu classics.

  • Bard’s Tale 3: Working on 3rd Geomancer

    After reading that tip on a two Geomancer party, I decided to give it a shot. I powereleveled one to level 18 and now am working on another from my secondary party. This other Geomancer is at level 15 and I hope to get her one more run in Malefia for a few additional levels…

  • Bard’s Tale 3: A Re-Re-Review

    With Diablo 4’s expansion coming up, I decided to take a break from that grind and look into another game. I did give Ultima 6 another shot but found myself getting frustrated with an abomination of an interface (yes, I’m getting old) and decided to look for something else to temporarily absorb my attention. Since…

  • Diablo 4: Made Small Progress with Sorcerer

    I decided to test the new cable modem I acquired which complimented my increase in bandwidth recently. While I didn’t have terrible problems in the past, occasionally I would encounter severe lag in the game and couldn’t really figure out where the bottlenecks were since the game isn’t well optimized from what I can tell.…

  • A Long Way Home 1981 TV Movie Review

    Ages ago, I had seen this movie probably just once on a network broadcast. Back in the day (not sure about now) they would have these specials at night from time to time, made for TV movies, usually a dramatization of an issue plaguing society. A Long Way Home 1981 focuses on a few issues…