I bought the Demolition Man. It was a decent price and I've always liked the game. It has a fairly simple ruleset but it's just fun to shoot those ramps. It has some things wrong but they are mostly cosmetic. The only serious ones are that the left flipper is dead, 2 whole strings of illumination are dead and the flipper buttons are only ( Read more... )

I downloaded "Game Room" for Xbox Live tonight and played about with it a bit. It's lousy. It feels unpolished and jerky, you can't actually walk around the gameroom with your avatar so it's really just a giant 3D menu, and their pricing for games is outrageous. $3 for an Atari 2600 game? Give me a fucking break! They made some bad choices in ( Read more... )

I was just sat on the sofa, doing a whole lot of not very much and I heard a THWACK sound over the rumble of the washing machine. It wasn't super-loud, but loud enough to startle me a little bit mostly in case it had something to do with the laundry. Nothing further untoward happened so I went back to snacking on Pringles. Then came the familiar ( Read more... )

I ate probably 12oz of pudding cup tonight. It came in a clear plastic cup, like the strawberry cream things Starbucks sells. It was titled "Tristan's Magic Pudding Cup" and who am I to doubt a claim like that? It was pretty goddamn good, all chocolatey and vanilla and cream and crumbled brownie bits in its majestic self ( Read more... )

Since God Of War 3 comes out very, very soon I figured I'd go back and play God Of War 2 because I never finished it originally. It was a tough game for me then, so now I'm playing on easy difficulty and I'm definitely having more fun that way. You start out fighting the colossus of Rhodes, clawing its face and eventually getting inside it to smash ( Read more... )

This has been a weekend of Rock Band and Doctor Who. Rediscovered my love of bass in the former. Lots of sets played. I enjoy Gimme Shelter more as Bill Wyman than as Charlie Watts. I've been playing that game for 18 months and I'm still not done with it. It rekindled my love of music in a number of ways, too ( Read more... )

I came home after a bit of a crazy day and discovered a message on my answering machine. When I played it, it was obviously some kind of voicemail thing, and it simply said, "Due to a technical problem on our end we are unable to speak with you personally. Please accept out sincere apologies. Goodbye." I have no idea who that was from or even what ( Read more... )

I wound up watching two films this weekend and that's a fairly unusual situation for me. Both are worth the time but one is superior to the other in my opinion ( Read more... )

I semi-regularly read a block written by an autistic person called Amanda. I first learned of her a few years ago because of a short video she made to demonstrate her internal language. I had essentially subscribed to the high-functioning vs low-functioning scale for autism and her videos and writing promptly shattered that preconception. In those ( Read more... )

I bought a vanilla bean cupcake at Starbucks. They packaged it in a square box with a little shelf holding the cupcake. It's like an iPod except for a different sense.

I got lucky in that I made it back to the office just as it started to rain since it's been raining quite vigourously all afternoon. I would have been nonplussed to eat a soggy