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Let's shout into the void.
I'm not even going to look through my old posts. I feel like I've come home to pick through a long deserted attic. Everything I owned's all boxed up and I don't have to open a thing to know it's all dated and vaguely embarrassing, like Beanie Babies and troll dolls, like last decade's lightest pop music, like being just out of my teenage years and ( Read more... ) -
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Okay, this article on YA books being too dark has been making the rounds and being duly torn apart. I'll let someone else handle Hunger Games. I wanna talk about Sherman Alexie's Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which has apparently been "challenged" quite a bit in libraries. So Alexie says something about being impressed his book has that much power ( Read more... ) -
These good deals are murderous.
Perhaps you have heard of Good Old Games. If not, here is what they are: a company that provides older games for 10 bucks and under ( Read more... ) -
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The Mountain Goats is my punk ( Read more... ) -
Business Book, actually pretty good
I'm mostly finished up with Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki, and while I tend to find business books short on content, and high on fluff and smug (), I have to recommend this one. Snarky, direct, honest, and believe me, it's refreshing to read once in a while that work and drive are important, but life is much more than work, that college should not ( Read more... ) -
On packages
So Dragon Age 2 came to my door yesterday, and I was outside kinda waiting for it while I phone-chatted with my Mom --
And I locked myself out of the house.
It was that kind of day.
Fortunately, although I have never been the helpfully sexy kind of skinny, there are occasionally advantages to being able to fit through dog doors. -
A little girl gaming!
So I have Dragon Age 2 on preorder and it'll be here tomorrow. I'm pretty excited, but I have a few mild concerns for BioWare. Oh, nothing major, minor eyerolls, but they are minor eyerolls endemic to a genre ( Read more... ) -
A Little Thing on Player Freedom and Subjectivity in Games.
Inspired by teza posting me this thing on player agency and holyspigot posting me TriadCity. Both of which I'll be discussing as we go ( Read more... )