Month: February 2012

This week, our assignment was to watch the two episodes “The Cure” and “In Which We Meet Mr. Jones” from Season One of Fringe. (You can read the Television Without Pity Recaps here and here, while the AV Club has… Continue Reading →

The demo for Mass Effect 3 came out on Valentine’s Day. In the ancient times, this would have been known as “a test”. Thankfully, everyone in our household was sick and, as such, the Valentine’s Day can was kicked down… Continue Reading →

Apart from keeping up with the bookclub (and sneaking ahead on my own… HOLY COW I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW AWESOME SEASON THREE IS) and bugging Maribou about Season 2 (she watched White Tulip yesterday, you see), I haven’t had much… Continue Reading →

Well, it’s been a year. The first post was on February 25th, 2011. Here we are a year later. I’ll talk a bit about what I intended, what I think worked, what I think didn’t, and wonder aloud what needs… Continue Reading →

So… what are you playing?

One thing that is probably an essay in itself is how the whole “Great Man” theory of history has had an impact upon video games (I mean, has there ever been a single-player RPG that didn’t have this as its… Continue Reading →

I’m beginning to wonder if maybe the opening line to this post shouldn’t be set to “Holy crap, tomorrow is Friday?” Then the second line could be set to “indeed it is.” Though, honestly, there are some weeks where it… Continue Reading →

Okay. We’ve watched the first five episodes of Fringe. We unanimously agreed that two episodes per week is “just right” until we GO NUTS BECAUSE OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT but that hasn’t happened yet and so we are… Continue Reading →