There was a police man, a fireman, a doctor, and a... something else on the screen, and I had to give two of them "something they'd normally have in their hands". I gave the doctor a scalpel, and the police man a donut, and that worked! I probably should have given the doctor "crushing student loan debt", but I suspect that's not in the game's ( Read more... )

Research and Development

(requires HL2:e2)

Brilliant, overall. I really didn't like the part with the bouncy bombs and the zombines, but everything leading up to that is awesome, and the next section after that is even more awesome!

This joins Minerva on my very short list (2 games so far) of must-play HL2 mods.

Get it!!

...that Lockbox (Hyper Mix) might make a good Rock Band track. For those not "in the know" there's an upcoming service whereby independent bands can add their own music to a big happy Rock Band marketplace ( Read more... )

We watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off this weekend. When I was 9 and saw the cut-for-TV version I thought it was pretty cool. Now that I'm not 9, however, it was just "three rich white kids ditch school, steal a car, insult a minority and a waiter, and then crash the car ( Read more... )

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good news! Scribblenauts has shipped.

bad news! It won't arrive until September 23rd. Sic Semper Super Saver Shippers!

good news! That gives me plenty of time to finish reading Locke Lamora, and also make another attempt at reading A Shadow in Summer.

bad news! I NEVER LEARNED TO READ!!!

The updated version of In the Pit has cleared review, so if you already have it it should automatically update the next time you start it. The update fixes a couple of obscure crash bugs, and also adds a "list the controls" option to the pause menu. It also changes the developer name from "luvcraft" to "Studio Hunty", which had been bugging me for ( Read more... )

over a month since the update, and genres still don't show up on Netflix on my Xbox ( Read more... )

so, I've been kind of on the fence about Scribblenauts. Then I read this on a forum I frequent:

>> giant squid is a pretty reliable destructive force

> not compared to cthulhu after being shot with a mind control device and fitted with a saddle, with a chaingun glued to his foreheadYARLY ( Read more... )