It seems like half the people on my friendslist are having a rough time in one way or another (am I bad luck?) so I feel kinda bad just being all WOO VIDEO GAMES but...woo, video games!

( Fallout 3 )

We went to the polling place at 6am to find a line already out the door (although admittedly it was a small building). Inside was kind of ridiculous - stand in one of three lines to pick up your registration thingie and then stand in one big line to get your actual ballot (there was also an option to use the lone electronic voting machine, but it ( Read more... )

After days of waiting patiently I finally got to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The reviews of the movie have...not been kind.

So...yeah, it wasn't perfect. The animation was a little stiff, the character models make everybody look like freaky puppets (not that that's really hurt...oh, pretty much every CGI movie ever...) and the main plot -- ( Read more... )

I got a free World of Warcraft disc in the mail the other day. Apparently, WoW is the new AOL. Tried it before, wasn't my thing. I'm currently downloading the Too Human demo to see if that game scratches the old "kill lots of monsters to gain increasingly better gear" itch ( Read more... )

So I got Grand Theft Auto IV, kind of on a whim (gift cards will do that to ya). It's decent as such things go so far (I'm partway through the second of five chapters) but I would really like to play the version of the game that all the reviewers got, because I'm somewhat convinced I'm not playing the same thing.

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I don't have much to say today but I felt like posting today, if for no other reason than to make sure nobody mistook me for some crazy dramatic boycotting type person. "Oh NOES, Livejournal doesn't want to subsidize my IMPORTANT Harry Potter/ROM slashfic community ( Read more... )

Passing of Gary Gygax Reaction Table:

01-15
I feel very... [rolls dice] ... saddened by this news.

16-30
The announcement took me by surprise...so it gets an extra attack and my dexterity bonus doesn't count.

31-45
I disbelieve!

46-60
Let's all observe a moment of Silence, 15' Radius.

61-75
What, NOBODY had the right cure spell ( Read more... )

We just got back from Distant Worlds, the orchestral performance of selected music from the Final Fantasy games. I hadn't realized until looking at that Wikipedia link that this was the only US stop after the tour's beginning in Stockholm a few months back, so I guess we're lucky that we live here ( Read more... )

( Rambling about video games and such )

The ultimate message of The Nightmare Before Christmas is this: Even if your whole life centers around waiting all year for the one night you get to participate in a musical number by singing two lines introducing yourself to nobody in particular, by no means should you try to break out of the routine or change things in any way, because if you do ( Read more... )