Fallout 3 is fantastic. I've been in the mood for a wide-open, American-style CRPG and this not only fills the bill, it may be the best example of its class I've played. I've dropped over 15 hours into it since Monday evening - ouch. It's leaning as hard on my addiction button as my last serious Angband streak did last year. Gonna have to ration my ( Read more... )

Died before level 20. Threw out executable (again), emptied trash. Need a shower. (I mean: literally ( Read more... )

Three non-Maggot uniques down, and I'm only 1000 XP away from level 20, which will give me the ability to fire two shots per turn. This is officially my best game yet.

Meanwhile I read about friends going on 30-mile bike rides over the weekend and I'm like... shit. At least I did get some wiffleball in, myself.

Here is a much less psychotic looking picture of me at the lakeside, though my head is still huge because it was taken at arm's length with the iBook's built-in camera.

( Someday I will re-assemble my camera-shaped camera. )

Puzzle Quest is a dangerous game. I thought it'd be a match-three game (like Bejeweled) with RPG elements, but I got it backwards; it's an RPG that uses match-three games to resolve battles. The design is smart and surprisingly deep. It's gotten both classicaljunkie and I hooked. (Cruelly enough, the game card has room for two separate characters' save slots, ( Read more... )

Mr. Ranger finally accepted the sweet embrace of death just now, after three days of play. Not before taking down Wormtongue and Muzgash, though, making this the best Angband run I've ever had ( Read more... )

Went to ruthling's birthday bash (orchestrated by grr_plus1) and again with the seeing of folks I haven't seen in a while. Left my hat behind because it got eaten by the giant foyer coat pile. I'm sure I shall see it again. Impressed a crowd of other guests' children with my DDR skills. I told them that they will become better than me with practice ( Read more... )