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Clair Obscur Out-of-Combat User Interface: The Trivia Game

Rules For each question, write down your answer, along with how confident you’re correct, as a percentage. For example, if you’re super sure, put 100%. If you have no idea, put 0%. At the bottom, I’ll put the answers. Add up the percentages for all the ones you got correct. BUT, subtract the percentages of…

Testing if the Final Fantasy Tactics “Chance to Hit” Predictions Are Lying

Background During battles, in the newly released video game “Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles”, when you select an ability, and then target an enemy, the game tells you the “Chance of Success” of whether the ability will hit or miss. That way, you can change your mind, before confirming. But I don’t trust it.…

Simple Guide to Create Simple WeakAuras in World of Warcraft

Background The World of Warcraft “WeakAuras” addon, lets you dynamically make little icons on appear on your screen during gameplay, to remind you of things. Each such icon is called a “WeakAura”. For example, here are some on my screen right now: If you try to make one yourself, you might be overwhelmed and confused,…

Weezer’s “Surf Wax America” is about global warming

Maybe “Surf Wax America”, by Weezer, is about global warming! The sea is foamin’ like a bottle of beerThe wave is comin’ but I ain’t gonna fear In the first 2 lines, the singer observes that the sea is becoming more aggressive, and sea levels are rising. A “wave is coming”–presumably the slow wave of…

Top 62 Things to Stumble Across in Breath of the Wild

More like “Breadth of the Wild”. This is a deep dive into the best moments to stumble upon in this gigantic game.

…But most of it is only fun if you stumble upon it yourself. So probably only read this if you’ve done almost everything in the game!


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