I've mentioned that my roommate’s a pretty quiet guy, and occasionally I won’t hear more than two words out of him in a day. But yesterday when I was watching Game of Thrones On Demand he came out of his room and asked me about it and how much I’d seen/had I read it/stuff like that, and he lit up like a Christmas tree as we talked about stuff like ( Read more... )

So last night was fun.

I went and met Lisa and her friends at the Pru, and then we walked to Fire + Ice. I wish I'd thought to call ahead for reservations so we had to wait an hour and a half for a table, but one person had an iPad so we played Scrabble on it and talked. I also got a (alcoholic) strawberry daiquiri because I'd never had one before. ( Read more... )

Because I made this. Based on an exchange I had when I went to see Captain America with another nerd, and when we passed a particular sign while talking about Mass Effect we admitted that we could never look at it the same way.

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Spoilers for Mass Effect

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My favorite comments after the cut.

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So I was playing around last night and decided to make a Let's Play of me playing Mass Effect, and this was the result. I got some slightly better software for later, but this did well as a test ( Read more... )

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This is what I get for playing Mass Effect 2 and then going out to do laundry with Lady Gaga on my Mp3 player. I just couldn't get the idea out of my head, maybe because I realized that the beats synced up.

The joke, for those that don't get it, is that during the game you're on a mission when all of the sudden this guy walks onto the dance floor ( Read more... )

So I finally caved and bought the first Mass Effect after I'd heard a lot about it and was interested, and so far I like it. I'd never actually played a Bioware RPG, though I watched Angelo play Knights of the Old Republic at one point, but that doesn't count.

One thing you can do is customize how your character looks, so here's mine.

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New phone acquired, and yours truly is slightly less stressed out to learn that on the off chance I do find the old one I can return the new one and only get hit with a $30 restocking fee. The guy at the store was very nice and didn't try to upsell me from what I wanted to get, either, so that helped. I (probably) wouldn't have bit his head off if ( Read more... )

I had the second of two Japanese quizzes this week, and I think I did pretty well. I know I screwed up two similar words, but the rest seemed fine ( Read more... )

I didn't get much sleep last night because I was having stomach trouble, but I lasted most of the day until about 4 today when it felt like I got hit by a truck ( Read more... )