Author: Ben

I’m Benjamin (“Ben”) Cohen and I’ve got a fairly extensive background. I’ve spent most of my life with and around computers. (I literally grew up crawling around computer room floors, since my mom was a Systems Engineer for IBM back when computers were larger than most modern appliances and slower than your phone from several years ago.)

The Detective’s Tale

Darius Beckford glanced at the wall clock. Its hands moved – slowly, relentlessly. He pushed back from the desk, rubbed his eyes, and muttered under his breath. Hours spent staring at notes and evidence. Absolutely nothing. Realizing the day had…

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The Chosen Ones’ Tale

Doran Terrell had heard many a tale of yore, of heroes past – saving various people and lands; but he’d never expected to be called to be one himself. That sort of thing never happened to simple fieldworkers from Clayshear….

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Using AI As a Creative Partner

About a week ago, I proverbially kicked myself in the butt and decided I needed to get back to doing some writing. I’ve definitely wanted to develop more Pub Tales (it goes with the site, right?). Additionally, I’ve had an…

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Summer 2025 Anime – What I’ve Been Watching

What a surprise – running way late again … sigh Not even going to say much more than that, honestly. Obviously, the season (at this point) is coming to a close, so this is more the “What I’ve Watched”, but,…

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9/11 Is a Difficult Day For Me

Somehow, this time of year always seems to sneak up on me. I wasn’t personally involved with any of th events of that day in 2001. My mother used to work in NYC, but had retired. I hadn’t worked in…

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Spring 2025 Anime – What I’m Watching

Updated to finalize I’m going to try and get a jump on this and actually add shows here after I’ve watched the first episode or two. Theoretically, that will enable me to get the titles (and initial thoughts) here quickly….

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Winter 2024 Anime – What I Watched

I know, I know … running horribly late again. I’d started writing this a few weeks into the season and then ran out of steam, so it sat for quite a while as a draft. Consequently, this is pretty much…

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Tyrklappi Oskarsdottir

In one of the Dungeons & Dragons campaigns I play in, my character Lhoris met an untimely and early demise – which is to say … he died. However, in a role-playing game like this (unlike in online games), you…

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Fall 2024 Anime – What I’m Watching

I know, I know … running horribly late again. I’d started writing this a few weeks into the season and then ran out of steam, so it sat for quite a while as a draft. Unfortunately (?), you’ll probably be…

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Pimumo

Interestingly (?), along with the Dungeons & Dragons campaign I’m in with my other character, Lhoris, I’m in a second one. This is a completely different group with different people. Consequently, I’m playing a new character. This character, Pimumo Longfoot,…

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Summer 2024 Anime – What I’m Watching

I know, I know … running horribly late again. I’d started writing this a few weeks into the season and then ran out of steam, so it sat for quite a while as a draft. Unfortunately (?), you’ll probably be…

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Lhoris

I have recently started playing Dungeons & Dragons with some others. The character I have chosen to play is “multi-class,”. meaning they are able to use skills and abilities from more than one class in the game. (This comes with…

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