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NEWSFLASH!
WHAAAT LIVEJOURNAL?! I guess this account still exists! I haven't used this in millenia, and I honestly can't promise this will be a habit, since I'm already drowning in social media. However, this seemed to be one place this update could possibly reach a pile of people it might not otherwise, so what the hey, right?
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Family Game Night: Digital Edition
On our first "family game night", we wound up playing Scythe digitally, each on our own computer. We were tired and nobody wanted to pick a game or put effort into it, so I picked Scythe because I'd been dying to play, but digital because we'd already all taken our leave, and the table was covered with junk. It wound up being a bust because each ( Read more... ) -
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I just got a free copy of DiRT Rally, which I've always kinda wanted but could never really justify since I'm bad at racing games and I don't really know anything about racing of any sort (much less rally racing).
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I just had to go to the grocery store for coffee and milk for the office, and there was an old woman there with a Joy Division : Unknown Pleasures t-shirt. I had a moment of "Cool Grandma or Cool Kids Who Give Grandma T-Shirts?" but then I realized that she probably wasn't THAT much older than me, and Joy Division is totally old-people music now.
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[Video] Game Studies Book Club
Someone whose blog I follow wants to start an online book club that reads academic books about video games. If that interests you, you can find the kickoff post here: http://www.sparklebliss.com/game-studies-book-club/
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I'm a medical mystery
Well, I had my "Why have I been sick for coming up on two months now?" blood-work follow-up today. No issues. They basically threw their hands up and said, "We can't figure out what's wrong with you." Since the asthma puffer they gave me didn't cure anything but did help me feel a little better, they've given me a red/blue (maintenance / emergency ( Read more... ) -
Pantone: The Board Game
Tonight we had our first play of Pantone for family game night. It's another drawing guesser - you have to evoke your subject using just colour swatches.
The components are somewhat low-quality, with weak incorporation of the Pantone theme, and it requires not-included timers and manual score-keeping. It's possible that the timers thing is just a ( Read more... )