Come for the games, stay for the drama.
For those of you who love the hyper-realism of Order of the Stick and have maxed out your ProgressQuest characters, give Kingdom of Loathing a try. Web based, single player, usually hilarious. Tipa is a level 1 Turtle Handler. I think she has enough Musclarity or whatever to level…
Watched the Academy Awards; followed by placing my characters on the red carpet. I guess I should have gotten a better dress for Nash… Changed the name of my Guitar Hero band to the suitably necrotic Death2U. I also became a guitar god and was lifted bodily into Rock Heaven for beating the game on … Read more
Being a liberal geek, my car radio is pretty much perma-tuned to NPR (especially if the jazz station is out of range). So driving home Sunday from Escondido after not getting my Miata started, I was listening to Car Talk – two brothers from Cambridge who weekly answer car (and other) questions. They have a … Read more
The Prophetic Fate Pokemon League followed rumors of a legendary fire Pokemon to a deep, lava-lit cavern. It took us three hours just to roll the giant-sized Pokeball down through Molten Core to capture him. Each member of Team Fate readied their favorite Pokemon; I took Nohielfoyu’s pokeball from my belt; got ready to throw … Read more
Nashuya is level 32, nearly 33… this is level 20-ish quest armor… she has upgraded most of the pieces already, usually even before she got the corresponding quest item but that doesn’t matter! She looks GREAT in it! The help available for this quest tapered off more and more as I fell behind the guild … Read more