I am getting ready for the flight out. I don't know what condition I will be in at my destination, so I just want to say now: Happy New Year out there to all of you. May 2009 pale in comparison to the joy of 2010 (even if 2009 was pretty damned good in the first place).

Managed to survive yet another rocky plane trip to Texas for Christmas with the folks.

Saw Avatar today. Not bad. Not quite as good as I'd heard it was though. The beginning is not very good, but it gets progressively better. The climax is legitmatly awesome ( Read more... )

Torchlight is $9.99 on Steam this weekend. If you don't already have it, and you enjoyed the Diablo games, you now have no excuse not to get it.

(9:46:57 PM) kiruppert: So, I was just looking at Monster Manual 3 for D&D 3.5. Is it bad that I kinda want to make an adventure around a mad alchemist/wizard living in a castle deep in the mountain range claimed by ogres of the Skullcrusher clan ( Read more... )

I just got back from Thanksgiving dinner. I'm full and I'm feeling good.

So, I just want to say Thank You to all you people out there watching my account. Thanks for your support. Wherever you live and whatever you're doing today, I hope you have had and continue to have a great time.

I really lament the apparent death of the playable demo. Borderlands looks really cool, but ads are designed to look cool and I have been burned in the past by getting my expectations up. Plus the gameplay videos I found on Youtube look like the gameplay is a little slow (As in it takes a while to shoot enemies enough to kill 'em). I really want a ( Read more... )

So, I've finally decided to give Twitter a try. Anyone who's vaugely interested can check me out @kiruppert .

The other day, local podcast Geek in the City Radio turned me on to a new band: The Clockwork Quartet. (Actually, it seems that this is only the band's promotional name, the full name seems to be "The Raconteuse and Her Clockwork Quartet", which if I may say so, it a fabulous name.) This is a steampunk themed band similiar in style and execution to ( Read more... )

Today I had the realization that the less I watch TV, the less I care about watching TV. No matter what shows are popular right now, House, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, ect, no matter how much good I hear about them, I just can't muster a givashit about them.