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

Dark & Light

An MMO I’m not going to play… but it’s hilarious… a released MMO with such HORRID misspellings and syntax all through it… I felt a little epileptic just reading the combat log… and the Auny’Ainah of Life? That’s a low level pig, the kind you find all over the Dwarf/Gnome newbie grounds in World of … 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