So, the blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (one of my favorite, for the title and the long-form historical analyses) took a look at Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, and I thought, hey, video game review, I'll check it out in case we ever think of picking that one up, which we have not been doing because Ubisoft has historically been a toxic ( Read more... )

So it's, uh, fairly addictive. Anyone else playing?

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I have, as most of you know, recently doubled my commute. It's not too terrible, though since I don't have the right kind of brain to listen to audiobooks, it's a little boring. No, seriously. I start one playing, my mind wanders to whatever kind of fic I want to write instead, and I come back to myself fifteen minutes later only to realize I've ( Read more... )

With Yuletide done, I have installed my shiny new copy of Diablo III (purchased with Target gift cards given out by my attorneys) and tested it this morning in the five minutes I had between getting ready for work and having to head out the door. Imagine my surprise when the female version of the wizard loaded up and Grey DeLisle's voice came out ( Read more... )

I don't remember where I got all the links, but if you posted them and I then re-posted, thanks!

Some celebrity from the hills got a 'make-under' and the phrase "all natural chic" was used. Except even if you only use six products and then gorgeous lighting and camera work, it's not an "all natural" look, now, is it? She looks gorgeous with ( Read more... )

I had the oddest Sanctuary dream, though, that Griffin had kidnapped Will. Then I realized that the growling of some unnameable monster right over my shoulder was actually Mr. Havoc snoring, and I woke up. Ugh, teach me not to run the humidifier, right? (Except I did ( Read more... )

So all my plans for last night (writing, watching Lost Girl 1.05) went down the drain trying to clean that Trojan (all TEN OF THEM, argh) off my system. If I haven't managed to get them out of there, I'm going to have to get the external CD/DVD drive for the netbook (which Mom has been procrastinating on finding for me) and wipe it back to factory ( Read more... )