I had a pleasant surprise at the mall yesterday- a new King's Quest Collection has been released that will run on Windows 2000 and XP. At $20, I couldn't resist. It has games I-VII on it (King's Quest: Mask of Eternity is missing, which I find amusing considering how much many fans dislike it for its departure from the rest of the series, anyway.) ( Read more... )

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20349892-952,00.html

Steve Irwin is dead.

I think everyone expected him to be killed one day, but this is still a bit of a shock.

Well, the research I'm doing for a personal side project certainly leads me to some odd places. The most recent destination has been the realm of giant insects and other arthropods, and their feasibility ( Read more... )

Tales of the Abyss is set for a U.S. release ( Read more... )

You know what's really been irritating me lately? All of these wannabe "cyber" activists. You know, the people who not only seem to be on-line 24 hours a day and active in every community on the Internet, but spend spend half of that time complaining about the world's problems and getting all indignant about other peoples' apathy- and the other ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of any other joke schools listed in the LJ directory? I've seen Hogwarts and Unseen University, but I was wondering if there are more.

Anyone else notice that despite this whole movement to make winter holiday motifs inclusive, being encouraged, for example to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas," all of the decorations are still the same Christmas ones? (NOTE: Even though many Christmas motifs have pagan roots, I still consider them Christmas decorations if they're ( Read more... )

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The subject line says it all.

For anyone who doesn't know, the Super Famicom version of this game was the first in the series, and unlike other games in it it's storyline is believed to be directly related to Tales of Symphonia (which would be a prequel taking place 4000 years before ( Read more... )

( Some may be repeats, I don't remember... )