I've been playing a lot of Dragon Age: Origins over the past few days (nearing 20 hours since Friday...) to keep my mind off other matters, so I figured I could write up a bit about it, since I know it's not a game that a lot of people who read this would probably play ( Read more... )

So I DMed DnD for maybe the fifth time on Friday. I've come to the conclusion that I'm sort of a crummy DM in some ways, and that my style of play doesn't mesh with the victims players that I have. Pretty much the most common critique I seem to get is that I'm a little bit of a rules stickler. Which, I admit, is mostly true. If a player wants ( Read more... )

It should be no surprise that I have a backlog of games that will probably take me all of 2010 to actually finish, provided that I stop purchasing games (haha, how foolish a thought). However, I'm pretty glad that at this point in life, I don't exactly feel the need to beat a game for it to be a worthwhile purchase, so long as I get some enjoyment ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been a little odd. My typical form of entertainment is playing video games for the most part, but the only game I've really put any time into is Rock Band. It's almost at the point where I like thinking/talking about games rather than actually playing them, and that sort of depresses me. I suspect part of it is just ( Read more... )

I ended up watching the first season of Dexter over the weekend, and I figure to make it a quasi-recurring feature to review shows that I've watched, spoilers within.

( Lengthy ramblings )

I finished watching the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last night, mainly deciding to watch it after reading the Onion's AV Club's writeups of it. And the quick review is that if I had watched it as it was coming out, I don't think I would have watched past the first season (or at all). Only the repeated warnings that the first season ( Read more... )

This is a rather random post, but I've realized I kind of suck at making interesting encounters in D&D. I have one rather trivial puzzle, and one where the players are going to be fighting over rotatable bridges, while trying to get to the other side (kind of like a "why did the chicken cross the road" joke :P). The thing is, while I have this ( Read more... )

Had a dream last night that it was the day of the wedding, and we had decided to wing it, instead of meticulously planning out. I distinctly remember that it was right before the whole wedding was supposed to start that I realized I hadn't hooked up the iPod to the sound system, and thus had no music, nor had I created an actual wedding playlist, ( Read more... )

It's been about a month since the last update, so I figure I should talk about new exciting developments that happened recently.

First, it looks like I won't be graduating until May, because of the dreaded Advance to Candidacy conspiracy. Basically, you have to apply for graduating, when you're a grad student, the semester before you actually ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in a while, and I know that there might be someone interested in the what I've been up, so I've made a bit of a general update post.

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