Overall, this has been a good weekend! Good things are beginning to happen; here's hoping they continue and don't, in the nature of most upturns in my life in re: finances, living situation, etc&etc, turn right around into a ditch. For instance ( Read more... )

Day 04 - Your guilty pleasure game.

Dragon Age. Indubitably, Dragon Age: Origins. Making lots of characters, thinking up ~emotional arcs~ and complicated reasons and emotions and backstories, and playing this one game over and over and almost always ending up with a squishy-hearted inability to do anything other than romance Alistair ( Read more... )

So I finally upgraded my Photoshop from Elements to CS, and I have been looking for something to do with it all day; eventually, I settled on ( coloring one of those old Sailor Moon coloring book images )

I have uploaded all the way up to my paid-account quota of icons again, because I found a stash of Babylon Five icons at iconsbycurtana and fuck yes. Fuck yes so much.

In other news, that video game meme, let's keep working on that, okay?

( 30 days of yeah you know )

SO amazing.

I wish I could have gone to one of these, instead of being at work (okay and then sitting on the couch with the Valkyria Chronicles) but… c'est la vie. I also just realized that we need to find a new place to live before May 1st (fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck okay yeah that basically, no, we'll make it work somehow) because I do not want to ( Read more... )

I have the Dragon Age II demo sitting on my XBox 360 hard drive. I am about to open it up. I intend to write about my reactions here for a) posterity and b) the ease of talking about specific things later, instead of just saying "!!!!!!!!" or "!??!?!?!" or whatever punctuation-filled reaction this demo engenders in me.

( Look below for story and gameplay spoilers for the beginning of DA2 )

Point the first: I like bandwagons. Point the second: I think this should actually be pretty interesting.

Day 01 - Your First Video GameThe first video games I played were those edutainment games that Montgomery County Public Schools loved to give to kids during "computer" hour in the early 90s (possibly because there was no more effective way of ( Read more... )

So, downloading Knights of the Old Republic for my computer so that I could mod the game and get Female Main Character/Bastila romance was a good choice. A supremely good choice. I have a weak spot for Bastila like you wouldn't believe, despite--or perhaps because of--her pretty serious personality flaws. It might be the accent, the pretentiousness ( Read more... )

Have you seen the Lara Croft new design yet?

Justin and I have been, actually, like, fighting about this. Because I love it. I love that she's wearing pants. I love that she's bloody and has bandages tied all over her and that she looks like a human being with human proportions and she made the sensible decision to run around old ruins in cargo ( Read more... )

I have been as usual totally remiss in posting here. But if I don't have anything to say, I can't find a great excuse to post, I guess.

Let me sum up my recent month (months? who knows). I have...

Played a lot of video games. Mostly the same ones that have kind of addicted me. You know who you are, Bioware games.

Read two thirds of The Hunger ( Read more... )