On the face of it, the fact that Jade Empire's mechanics are too apparent to the player doesn't seem to be too much of a problem. After all, we know it's a game ( Read more... )

I got back from E3 on Friday. I think I wound up feeling human again sometime around Monday morning ( Read more... )

EDITED: Video removed from original space. Should be up just about everywhere soon ( Read more... )

Having Harry Dean Stanton be the narrator of an audio recording of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' was an inspired choice ( Read more... )

"Long, long ago in Zipangu, the wondrously mystical land of the Orient, there existed a most fearsome band of warriors known as ninjas. Employing the superhuman Oriental magic of ninjitsu together with elegant, even acrobatic martial arts, the ninjas were tremendously skilled in the art of death. Their artistry in the use of katana swords and ( Read more... )

I just finished 'Norwegian Wood'. It was good. It is not, as I had previously believed, Murakami's first novel. I suspect that he intended it to read like it had been his first, but it was not. I remember telling someone, probably Sarah, that you could see the later themes of his work starting to wriggle behind the scenes ( Read more... )

Ah bwa ha!

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I wanted to see if I could do the Running Man, but I found that I could not. After this bout of self-discovery, I noticed that this bird was watching me dance badly. I cussed out the bird and upset the cat. Sorry cat

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My mouse doesn't click all the time. About 1 out of 10 times, I'll give it a click, a nice definite I-clicked-the-mouse-for-certain click, and nothing will happen. After this happens, it takes me a little bit of time to figure out what's going on, to click it again. I suppose I could ask the guys in QA Tech for a new mouse. This seems to be the way ( Read more... )

Received today on my Sonork (an instant-messaging program that had a business relationship with Haptek(the company I worked at previously to my current job)) account from someone named 'pinky ( Read more... )