First of all, Enrile is an idiot who can't seem to grasp what a subcontractor is, which i suppose shouldn't be surprising considering how long he's been disconnected from the modern world all cushied up in his Malacanang millions. Also, like most of the Gloria lapdogs, he's rather too obvious, and more than a little obnoxious, in going about it ( Read more... )

Leigh Alexander on being compelled to polygamy in Harvest Moon

Young Adult Fiction: Wild Things

For those who've played Portal (and any gamer damn well should), Aperture Science is giving its holiday greetings in full GlaDOS fashion this year. Yes there will be Cake- right past the flames.

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For fellow geeks who haven't, here are greetings in proper RPG trappings:

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In Memoriam
Spartan John-117

It came to me, suddenly, looking out at how gray the recent weather has been painting my formerly familiar view of the village I've grown up in. After my new lease on life I suppose I could have expected something poetic in the climate that would greet me upon my return to the world at large from that horrid little peach beige hospital room. ( Read more... )

"But if Final Fantasy 13 continues the tradition of most new Final Fantasies you could probably simulate it just as well by listening to the Star Wars soundtrack while huffing nitrous oxide and reading an Excel spreadsheet" :P PC RPGs FTW, bitches ( Read more... )

Whatever your opinion of Dubya, at least one good thing that's come out of his term is killing the once innocent faith of children in the United States Presidency- to the point where the punk rock/anti-folk bands they form write whole songs about how much he sucks (admittedly, Kimya by now has a kid, but she still kind of acts like one).

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Suffer
The Children: on the likely end of our consumer capitalist culture as portrayed in Bioshock

ErotoSim: on why we thrill to watching the Sims make out

Persona 3's Duality of Conscience: on how we exchange who are are for power, influence and statusFor those unfamiliar, Bioshock is set in the crumbling remains of the underwater city of ( Read more... )

If there is one hard and above all unapologetic rule that I've taken away from the bloody mess I've made of what can only loosely be called my history of relationships, it's this: that the stage will always come first. However else I might stupidly make ambigous my feelings, I strive to make clear my stand on the stage being my foremost mistress. ( Read more... )