August 12, 2008 – 8:45 am
I’m starting up a new category here at the blog: 30 Days of Game.
The topic of this category is going to be to review a game I have played for 30 days. The idea came to me quite some time ago, but to be honest the thought of buying a bunch of games, or even [...]
August 11, 2008 – 10:45 am
I’ve been a user of Last.fm for quite a while now. Originally I would just hit it up occasionally to find a band or song and listen to it and maybe find some new music I’d never heard before. Then, when the wife and I started having guests over to the house, either for parties [...]
for a little comedy, a little drama, and a little wine
Based around the infamous blind wine tasting in 1976 that has come to be known as the Judgement of Paris, this movie follows a British man, Steven Spurrier (played by Alan Rickman), living in Paris as he heads to California to find wines for his [...]
Every once in a while, something you intend to do gets away from you. Back in 2006, I picked up and read The Amulet of Samarkand and I really enjoyed it. Like a grim and gritty version of other books about magic with a kid for a main character, it just felt more… real… than [...]
for good clean (dirty) political humor
Swing Vote is the extreme representation of the idea that every vote counts. Two candidates are running for President, one has 266 electoral votes and the other has 267. The only state not reporting is New Mexico, which is a swing state (meaning the winner of the popular vote gets [...]
Oddly enough, on the same day that a Democrat member of the House of Representatives announces that he’d like to legalize casual personal use of marijuana, Cheech & Chong announce they are planning to go back on the road.
Life is funny like that some times.
This month over at Man Bytes Blog’s Round Table, the topic is game difficulty.
When I try to think of examples of games that I played that are either “too hard” or “too easy”, I usually wind up going way back to the King’s Quest and Hero’s Quest series of games by Sierra. Of all the [...]
As is evidences by my reviews of the three previous books, I like the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. So it should be no surprise that I enjoyed book number four, Summer Knight.
Although, I must admit, after reading about an angry wizard, werewolves, and vampires, an impending war between faeries just didn’t pull me [...]
Reading this post over at Clockwork Gamer got me to thinking about why raiding in most recent MMOs never excited me. Back in my days of EverQuest, when I would lead raids, I often would take anyone and everyone who showed up. Some of my “raids” were silly, intended to train people for raiding. I [...]
for being everything I wanted and more
When Chris Nolan relaunched Batman with Batman Begins, I immediately knew that the right team had been put in place. While that film has some issues, the overall impact of it was fantastic. With Nolan behind the camera and Christian Bale in front of it, they were creating something [...]
