So I was without power for the better part of the day and the good part of the night today because of a really bad storm that swept through here during the middle of the day and took out two power lines near our place with fallen branches. The last time we had a really big power outage was about nine or so years ago during my second year in this ( Read more... )

Between Brexit, the clusterfuck of an election which has put an asshole in the Big Seat, police killings igniting racial tensions, and so many good people being taken from us (Carrie Fisher, the original Princess Leia, being the latest), 2016 can go straight to hell ( Read more... )

So I spent nearly three months without computer. During a typical internet session, the goddamn machine just up and quit on me, and wouldn't start back up again. So we had to take the thing apart to see what was wrong with it, and it turns out the goddamn fan quit working. While I was waiting for the thing to get fixed, I tided myself over with an ( Read more... )

So for my birthday this month, I ended up grabbing myself a Steam Game Card with $100 and grabbed the following games:

• Shadow Warrior - This is an awesome remake of an old 3D Realms game that was quite juvenile in its humor and was a bit on the racist side to boot. The Lo Wang of this game is a far cry from the dirty-old-man ninja from the original ( Read more... )

More than ten years ago, a lone wanderer by the name of Dan Bayn introduced us to a badass rules-light game by the name of Wushu. It was an awesome game that was a very welcome alternative to Feng Shui for balls-to-the-wall action gaming, and resulted in several of my most beloved PbP games on RPG.Net, including New Silver Dragons. It had a very ( Read more... )

So it's been a full year since the last time I posted on this thing.

A lot has changed. A full year has gone by, which included:

• The Chaos saga ending in Adventure Quest Worlds, and a new saga, the Queen of Monsters, taking its place. I've not had much interest in the game lately due to other interests taking precedence.
• Feng Shui getting a new ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've had an update on this journal, but today is as good a day as any ( Read more... )

This is my first post on Phoenix. I now have internet. I have installed most of the programs I want to install, and am currently rocking out to Shoutcast on my newly-installed Winamp.

The next few days will see me getting my shit back on and rejoining my various communities.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is GOOD TO BE BACK!

My new desktop has arrived. An Alienware X51 with Windows 7 which I have christened "Phoenix", a badass gaming rig that should be able to handle any major game I throw at it for the next few years. I will be looking forward to getting back in touch with Skyrim, Diablo and the other games that I used to play on the old machine ( Read more... )

This little gem from dear_gnome is making me giggle more than it has a right to. And I don't even play World of Warcraft.