Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 04/17/2020

Trader Joe's Greek Spanakopita [+] Spinach and cheese pie. 350 degrees for 35 minutes and it comes out pretty good with flaky crust and tasty insides. A bit high calorie.

iOS Game - TFT: Team Fight Tactics [/] A tactical combat game using League of Legend characters. Start with 8 players. Draft your primary hero, buy from a selection of underlings, set up your squad and let them automatically battle another squad. You get points based on how well you did in the round and use them to level up underlings, buy new ones, and use duplicates to upgrade underlings to more powerful versions. On to next round and eventually players start dropping out from total damage until there is one player left.

Since it's a real-time game with other real people there is a timer for all phases which I intensely dislike. I don't like being hurried as I try to figure out what to buy, what to upgrade and how to setup my squad for the next fight. But the game does look pretty and it's supposed to be fairly balanced and has good tactical depth.

Podcast - Only the Parts You Need: A GURPS Podcast (2019) [/] Five episodes and it's been almost 8 months since the last one so it might be dead. Each episode goes into detail about specific GURPS rules or examples. It is maybe too detailed and unfortunately the host's Spanish (?) accent makes it a chore to listen. But this is one of the very few GURPS rules and GMing podcasts rather than actual play podcasts.