Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa I linked to a wonderful post by Jennifer of Girl, Unplugged today wondering why it was okay to have dumpy-looking male heroes but the female ones had to be hypersexy and … damn, in my hurry to get everything done on time this morning, I forgot to actually put the link in so —- Meet … Read more
Oh, speaking of Free Realms, the band that does the theme song “It’s Your World and Welcome To It”*, the Dares, will be performing the song live at E3 AND on the Snowhill stage in game (on all servers, from what I understand) at 7PM EDT or 4 PM PDT. If you West Coasters are … Read more
Out of nowhere, I was invited to take part in a weekly online gaming group as they explore the world of Neverwinter Nights 2 (which, it turns out, is an entirely separate game from Neverwinter Nights Platinum). I’d originally bought NWN2 to play with its level editor, but I never really learned it well enough … Read more
Wow, June already. The year seems to be flying by so quickly. I saw “Up” over the weekend, kind of dark for a Disney/Pixar film, but I liked it quite a lot. Gaming-wise, it was largely Free Realms along with some trips into EVE and Vanguard. I hope to make it to Antonia Bayle’s Festival … Read more
Yesterday, Bear was caught in a bind because he didn’t have a computer to run the Champions Online beta. He didn’t know that he was standing on a computer — the Monopoly board itself. Before World War II, computers weren’t machines, they were a profession. Rooms of people-computers, usually women, would perform calculation after calculation … Read more