Love me, for I am wholly responsible for today's Featured Top Ten List over on GameFAQsThis actually isn't much of a victory, given the low levels of literacy and adherence to common sense present in many of the other featured lists. At least the only major fault with my list is a high level of pretentious bullcrap and polysyllabic redundancy, ( Read more... )

And now to explain why I was so contentedly thrilled after last night's IRC conversation with Aaron.

Let me preface this by explaining that twice in the past year, Aaron has found out-of-context references to A Prayer For Owen Meany - once on GameFAQs, and once on ESPN.com (spoilers in the page title, not to mention the page content itself). Not ( Read more... )

Because of a LITERARY REFERENCE. I promise to explain later because I want to preserve this for posterity somewhere outside of IRC logs. Suffice to say I laughed so hard my stomach hurts and I am still occasionally sputting with laughter. Thanks for everything, sweetheart. <3

From the front page of Saturday's Detroit News and Free Press - and I don't mean "front page of the entertainment section," I mean PAGE 1-A - comes this article on female gamers. ^_^_v

I like me, because here is what I did after 11:30 p.m. on Friday night ( Read more... )

Warning: total geekery ahead that involves combining an English degree with an anime that was never meant to be analyzed.

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I love Falc, partly because we had a conversation tonight that started with:

How was [watching] SMJ Again with John?

And somehow grew into:

[The Saber Marionette franchise deserves a good hard feminist reading] ( Read more... )

Back on October 21, my oldest brother Jeff was here for dinner, and mentioned that a friend of his had told him (several weeks earlier) about an upcoming testing date for Mensa admission. The testing date was the next day, October 22, and he was telling us about the prep work he'd been doing ( Read more... )

( From Act IV, Scene 1 )

In the "acrostic poem" topic on FFT General, I wrote:

Low-paid translators,
Illiterate, perhaps,
Turn FFT's story (already a
Tactics Ogre ripoff/homage) into a
Laughable
Excuse for coherence.

Many fanboys and fangirls
Overlook these problems;
Newbies declare, "Best game
Ever!" Some veterans agree,
Yet others ask them to broaden their gaming ( Read more... )

This entry has been brought to you by Final Fantasy 8 and Dylan Thomas... because only an English major could find a Squall/Rinoa icon in a poem about death ( Read more... )