Monthly Archives: June 2015

More gushing about Splatoon

I’ve been playing at least 90 minutes of Splatoon every night for the last week, and I really can’t say enough nice things about it.  I’ve gotten up to level 12 in the multiplayer, finished the first two sets of … Continue reading

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Welp, liberated France.

After three play sessions, I wrapped up Call of Duty 3 tonight. It did have a few less-than-stellar moments scattered throughout.  Treyarch felt compelled, for some reason, to put little QTE segments in when you were doing stuff like placing … Continue reading

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Math is a harsh mistress

Hmm, second work post in as many days.  Bad habit. Anyway.  This might be a bit mean-spirited, and I’ll apologize for that in advance.  I had an annoying day and my normal good spirits aren’t what they normally are. At … Continue reading

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So this is what motivation feels like.

My job involves a lot of use of WebEx, which is actually a pretty decent remote access package.  My only complaint about it – that it was really tedious to review recorded WebEx sessions – was wiped out when I … Continue reading

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3 CoD Monte

For a guy who doesn’t play a lot of military-themed shooters, I’ve been hitting the Call of Duty series pretty hard this week.  It’s a good way to grind through the backlog, and it’s interesting seeing how the game series … Continue reading

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What the Well-Armed Inkling Is Packing This Season

OK, so while I may not have any nostalgia surrounding Nintendo CHARACTERS of yore, I do have fond memories of the NES hardware.  The original Zapper light gun, in particular, had a particularly satisfying heft and a trigger action – … Continue reading

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Is the Plural “Calls of Duty” or “Call of Duties” ?

I am rapidly running out of Call of Duty games.  Knocking out MW3 and BLOPs in the last few days leaves me with only Call of Duty 3 – the rather poorly-received console-exclusive entry in the series – and the … Continue reading

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