Management!
Back in the late 90’s, Peter Molyneux still knew how to make games. Two of the best ones were Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper II. The basic idea behind the games was that you were an evil overlord in charge… Continue Reading
Month: March 2011
Agency!
This review of Dragon Age II has minor spoilers for Dragon Age II and middlin’ spoilers for Dragon Age. Here’s the spoiler-free analogy version of the review: In Dragon Age, to bring up inventory, you pushed one button. In Dragon… Continue Reading
Sunday!
So… what are you reading? I’ve been reading The Ultimates. I never really clicked with Mark Millar until Kick-Ass came out… and even then, I thought that he stumbled across a story that worked with what I assumed his one-trick… Continue Reading
Encumberance!
There is always a problem with writing reviews of matters of taste… specifically, the whole “one man’s DC is another man’s Marvel” or however the statement goes. I know that *I* enjoy games like Space Invaders… but let’s say that… Continue Reading
Saturday!
So… what are you playing and/or watching? I’m still only ankle-deep in Dragon Age II. I’ve got the 50 gold pieces I need, but still want to clean up a handful of quests before I move on to knee-deep.… Continue Reading
Erleuchtung!
Newton Claret 2008 is the wine this week. Last time, we talked about Coppola’s Claret and how my friend Fish said “It’s got no distinguishing characteristics whatsoever!” Well, that ain’t the case for this one. This one is spicy! Sure,… Continue Reading
Monolexicism!
It’s getting harder and harder to find unique single words that encapsulate the intended theme of a post, lemme tell ya. I spent a good ten minutes figuring that one out. If, in the future, I have to use two… Continue Reading
Gedankenexperiment!
One of the things I occasionally daydream about is Time Travel. I don’t always daydream about going back in time and righting wrongs… sometimes I daydream about going back in time and messing with people’s heads. One of the thought… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
Paraphrasing what I told Kyle yesterday, this blog is a politics/religion/philosophy-free zone. However, it is not a hypothetical-free zone and here is the song that I might have posted if it were not a politics/religion/philosophy-free zone: While writing the Rango… Continue Reading
Tokens!
Okay. So Andrew Sullivan linked to an essay discussing the death of the arcade… and I’ve got to say that the essay he linked to did not take into consideration the title of this particular essay. When I was a… Continue Reading