Author Archives: baudattitude

Eff-Three-Arr

Last June, a friend of mine who happens to work for Warner Brothers in Canada sent me a big care package full of their latest games & movies. It was a pretty classy care package and I didn’t do it … Continue reading

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Nowhere near Tomobiki-cho

Back in the mid 90s, I was driving through Washington with my wife.  It was actually our honeymoon trip, and we were a couple of geeks who had just been given a bunch of gift certificates and cash, so we … Continue reading

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Great Moments in Marketing

A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided to take a drive through southern Oregon, stopping in small towns along the way to sightsee. We went out of our way to, for instance, see a covered bridge.  It wasn’t … Continue reading

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ノーラスへようこそ

I am really quite fickle when it comes to free MMOs. Less than a week after trying out Perfect World International for a bit, I’m back in Sony’s pockets. I had been getting a little burned out on eq2 at … Continue reading

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So, about that Perfect World thing.

As I was saying yesterday, I reasoned that, since I’d quite enjoyed the 5 hours I’d played of Perfect World’s “Rusty Hearts” MMOBrawler, it wouldn’t be entirely outside the realm of reason to download their “Perfect World International” MMORPG. No, … Continue reading

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In Which I Fail At Consuming Media And Talk About Free MMOs

I’m usually a pretty optimistic guy, but I think there are some occasions when you just have to go to bed and declare a do-over on the day. I tried watching FLCL tonight.  This is my third time trying to … Continue reading

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Wow, Five Years Blog

Posts have been a bit sporadic of late, which I’m going to blame on a slip back into MMO addiction and a job that doesn’t give me a lot of time for on-the-clock navel gazing, but I noticed that this … Continue reading

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The Problem With Magical Girls

Let me begin by saying that I have a soft spot in my heart for most magical girl anime. I originally typed “soft spot in my head” there, which may have been a Freudian slip. Anyway. I was introduced to … Continue reading

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Twilight Sparkle is best headdesk pony

I’m not a Pinkie Pie fan, so the wait for the upcoming Fluttershy and Twilight-centric episodes was only made more painful by an all-Pinkie-all-the-time episode last week. That being said, it did have epic Twilight headdesk moment and someone went … Continue reading

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Ponies

I am no stranger to buying embarrassing things. Back in the 90s, I became quite used to being the only non-Asian guy in the local Japanese bookstore and the only guy, period, in the shojo manga section.  I’ve been the … Continue reading

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