Saturday!
I’m finally playing Mass Effect 3! Oh, and lemme tell ya, I’m enjoying the heck out of it. I’m playing on Insanity level and so I’m having to remember how to be a sniper (as this is pretty much the… Continue Reading
Month: April 2012
Consternation!
No quiz last week, as I was enjoying wine country. This week: another readily identifiable theme. A couple of easy ones, one designed to make you give the wrong answer, and some hard ones. Good luck! Rot13 your guesses, as… Continue Reading
Weekend!
Holy cow! Is tomorrow Friday already? Indeed it is. Okay, I downloaded the patch for Mass Effect 3 yesterday morning before I left for work. It was only 4 megs and so I figured, hey, I could download it while… Continue Reading
Homework!
Can you believe it? We’ve watched nineteen episodes of Fringe. There’s only one more episode to watch for next week. The episode also happens to have the best title of any episode we’ve seen thus far: “There’s More Than One… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
The first time I heard this song, I was sure that it was Robert Plant doing a duet with someone. I was googling and trying to figure out “who is this?” and because it wasn’t Robert Plant, I stumbled across… Continue Reading
Bookclub!
This week, our assignment was to watch the two episodes “Midnight” and “The Road Not Taken” from Season One of Fringe. (You can read the Television Without Pity Recaps here and here, while the AV Club has their recaps of… Continue Reading
Theme!
When I was a kid, I liked science fiction without knowing why. I just figured it was cool to have cool stuff that did cool things. Trancers was cool because it had that “long second” watch. Metalstorm: The Destruction of… Continue Reading
Sunday!
Last night I saw Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Remember how we were talking about splat movies? Well, this was a deconstruction of that. I laughed out loud a *LOT*. The basic plot of the movie is this: Tucker and… Continue Reading
Saturday!
Okay. They’ve announced that the patch is hitting Tuesday. This is a good thing. (They’ve also announced free DLC to give additional content to the, ahem, “controversial” ending… which is coming out this summer which makes me wonder if I… Continue Reading
Questions!
I have received two questions! The first is from our good friend Spivak who asks: Dear Mr. Jaybird, What is your stance on DRM for games? The new SimCity and Diablo games will require persistent online connections so they function… Continue Reading