Not Related In Any Way To Hogwarts

[Silver Sorrow]

Kingdoms of Amalur: The Re-Re...ah, hell. Don't make me type that stupid title.

Anyway, KOA has been updated to include some sort of content -- not DLC -- centered around whatsername...the naked-adjacent Dark Elf. You know who I mean.

Anyway, I'll quote the news:

Many fantastic tales have been spun about the secretive Dokkalfar agent named Alyn Shir. ... now it is up to you to unravel one of them. Follow a series of clues and travel to a number of hidden locations across Amalur to procure a very delicate item left behind by the infamous assassin herself.But be warned: You are not the only one who wants to get their hands on this important and very personal piece.

• Revisit pivotal locations all across Amalur and explore secret hideouts
• Uncover lore of your former self and your special relation with Alyn Shir
• Embark on a scavenger hunt that pits you against the lowest of the low

And then there's a couple of screenshots. One is kind of bizarre, showing her head on a male body? I don't know. I don't WANT to know.

I'm not exactly compelled to reinstall the thing and re-re-experience it all over again, so...meh. Whatever. I will say though that the word "Dokkalfar" puts me in mind of two things, and always has:

1. Dan Aykroyd's "dickfer" joke in Spies Like Us.

2. The Wookalar monster that Tim Conway was obsessed with in The Private Eyes.

And, like Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that.

In other news, I have not had the best experience getting mods running in DAI. I would go on a wall-of-text rant about every aspect of the experience, but I won't. You're welcome. However, I must point out that the EA desktop launcher thingy is a goddamn cancer. Here's to the day when the DA games are freed from DRM once and for all.

[Starfox]

I'm not exactly compelled to reinstall the thing and re-re-experience it all over again, so...meh. Whatever.

Well, it's still installed on mine. So someday when I'm not too busy doing... something else -- meaning certainly not next week -- I'll give it a try. What is the worst that could happen? My head exploding? Well, that would be a contextual release.

Ooh, look, I'm turning into you