Category Archives: videogames

Taking Control of a Dungeon Bash

Posted on September 11, 2008 by baudattitude

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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See, someone else likes their games in easy mode:

Posted on September 9, 2008 by baudattitude

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

Posted on September 9, 2008 by baudattitude

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

Posted on September 9, 2008 by baudattitude

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.

Posted on September 7, 2008 by baudattitude

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?

Posted on September 5, 2008 by baudattitude

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

Posted on September 2, 2008 by baudattitude

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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The Ikea Nesting Instinct

Posted on August 31, 2008 by baudattitude

“Like so many others, I had become a slave to the lkea nesting instinct.” — Fight Club Today was our third Ikea trip this week. It started out simply, with a pair of POÄNG chairs – black frames, red cushions, … Continue reading →

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Sad consequences…

Posted on August 27, 2008 by baudattitude

One of the things purged in last weekend’s organizational frenzy was a 24″ Toshiba TV. It’s not that it was a particularly bad TV in any way, but it was, you know, a CRT TV, and big and heavy and … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Threes

Posted on August 21, 2008 by baudattitude

After finishing Starfy 3, I needed a new game. I very nearly started Final Fantasy III – it was in the DS, even – but I decided that maybe a long RPG wasn’t a great idea. Then I realized that … Continue reading →

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