EQ2: Betraying Qeynos

Even the in-game items mock me! I could put this book in my home… if I had one… but let me backtrack to… two days ago. Spending so much time in the Kingdom of Sky expansion grinding out the levels. Dina was 55 last weekend; 58 this one. But I hate the grind, and when … Read more

Widescreen Gaming

So what does having a 1650 x 1050 monitor get you these days? It's a Viewsonic 2025wm, and I've been droooling over it for awhile. I didn't buy it for gaming, really – I bought it for doing everything that isn't gaming. And it is very very nice for that. But for gaming… well, in … Read more

Kung Fu Widescreen Action

I know, I shouldn't have bought it. I can't really afford it. But I love my widescreen monitor. And I haven't even tried to play a game on it. Took me about half an hour to teach Linux about it, mostly because of a stupid typo I made in the xorg,conf… but since then… movies… … Read more

Nektulos Forest (Re-)Revisited

I'm not a fan of what they did to some of the old classic EQ1 zones with the Depths of Darkhollow and Prophecy of Ro. What possibly reason is there to take the old cities and forests we loved for all their faults and simplicity and make them crushingly dark, ugly and depressing? Nektulos Forest, … Read more

Deadwood

(This review has been Deadwood-ized) My *#*&# son did enter whilst I was availing myself of the *&#*# pleasure of watching this fine *&#*&# Western, *&&#&# Deadwood. And after standing there for a (_*#(# moment, he did ask, "Is this *&#*&# show the (*#(#&* last episode of )*&(&* Firefly?" I said, "No… if this were … Read more