Monthly Archives: September 2008

Finding your Sound Blaster Model Number: A Rant

I have, or used to have, a bit of an anti-Creative bias.  It comes from having worked for one of their competitors several years ago, and having them stomp us completely in to the ground.  It’s not as ingrained as … Continue reading

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Taking Control of a Dungeon Bash

Dungeon Siege was starting to frustrate me. Not for the normal reason that games frustrate me, which is that they’re hard and I’m a wimp. Honest! It was more interface issues than anything else, really. A couple of the frustrations … Continue reading

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Purging for fun &… profit?

OK, really more like purging for fun and cutting my losses.  🙂 I used to go to a really neat comic book shop in Culver City.  It was not your normal shop, where you have to look very hard to … Continue reading

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See, someone else likes their games in easy mode:

I wanted to link to this as proof that I’m not the only gaming wimp out there. Also because it’s a rather well written blog and I find myself sucked into it quite often. tleaves.com article

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It’s gone

You know, “There’s a Hole In My Entertainment Center (Where My Xbox Used to Be)” would be an awesome country song title. I found a box, printed up the shipping label, and took my Xbox 360 to the nearby Staples … Continue reading

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doom, Doom, DOOOOOOOOOOOM

I hopped on the Doom bandwagon a couple of years late. When Doom was originally released, I didn’t have a machine at home capable of running it – I had a pieced-together 80286 box that had about enough marbles to … Continue reading

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I’m finally in the club.

Tomorrow I get to call Microsoft and ask them how to get my 360 fixed. I’m actually GLAD this finally happened. My console has a manufacture date of 9/11/2006 and I was worried that it might survive, against considerable odds, … Continue reading

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What IS it with Dwarves, anyway?

After I finished off the spider-infested temple, and incidentally I will be sending Chris Taylor a bill for the therapy I’m going to need, it was time to tackle the next fantasy standby: The dwarven mine overrun by nasties because … Continue reading

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Unnecessary Spiders

OK, so I don’t really think there are any such things as “Necessary” spiders, at least as far as video game enemies go, but these are particularly bad, not least so because of unfortunate timing. I have been trying Dungeon … Continue reading

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I do not often post wallpaper

…and, in fact, there’s nothing particularly special about this one, it’s just another cute girl-with-nekomimi wallpaper. If you are looking for more, may I kindly direct you to 4chan? But, I saw the phrase “cat ear girl she is draw … Continue reading

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