( not really spoilers, more like a review )

( Minor spoilers below the cut )

OK, it would be really nice if I had so much money that I could afford to maintain a healthy padded balance in all of my accounts, but I don't. I'm not starving in the streets but neither can I afford the luxury of just having a couple hundred dollars sitting in my account, not doing anything for me. I think I'm like most people in this respect: ( Read more... )

( Some thoughts after playing through the first mission last night )

Killing zombies with a chainsaw is every bit as fun as you'd think it would be.

And the sword is just awesome.

So New York State is getting new license plates. Big deal, right? They're throwback ugly and look like they were designed by a fifth-grader with a half-empty box of stubby Crayolas, but who cares ( Read more... )

Well, I said it before, and nearly every respondent disagreed with me, most of them quite vehemently. But clearly last night's setback to gay marriage in Maine, the latest in a long series of setbacks, proves what I've been saying all along: that the gay marriage movement needs to be more tactical and less belligerent. That the "guns blazing and ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for tGS, through Chapter 28 )

So I finished ODST last night. And it was a real shock when I did it, because I finished a mission, and then was waiting for the "loading" screen to appear, and then all of a sudden the credits started rolling.

So I think this game is a complete waste of money. Here's why:

1. There is nothing new in this game. The engine is identical, the ( Read more... )

So this game was pretty much off my radar until Game Informer reviewed it at a 9.5 (I have a free subscription via my GameStop Edge card). It was released on August 25th, and I finished it last night ( Read more... )