El Cid is a cool guy. eh kills Muslims, defrauds Jews, and doesn't afraid of anything.

Seriously though, after finishing El Cantar de Mio Cid I can easily put it in the #1 spot of my favorite hero-epics. Of course, seeing as how the only other one I've read is Beowulf, that probably doesn't say all that much ( Read more... )

Well, seeing as how yesterday was the last of my summer class (British Lit, yo) the plan was to sleep in late in celebration of the additional free time I would now have. Unfortunately, it was not to be, as my sister woke me up about half an hour ago with a telephone call. Apparently my mom got in a car accident while driving to work earlier this ( Read more... )

So I was woken up by blaring sirens about 45 minutes ago. Confused, I looked out my windows and saw that heavy sheets of rain were falling and strong gusts of wind were whipping the trees into a frenzy. Needless to say, I got out of bed and checked the news. It turned out that there was in fact a tornado cutting through town, but it started ( Read more... )

Well, I moved down here to Springfield, MO on Saturday for the fall school semester. Due to all the on-site moving shopping, Dtoid posting, and just being lazy, it took me awhile to get everything squared away nicely, but I eventually got my new room looking nice ( Read more... )

A PR supplied screenshot has given me the perfect opportunity to make a D&D reference.

http://www.destructoid.com/raven-squad-operation-hidden-dagger-got-its-fps-in-my-rts-93656.phtml

Many thanks to the anonymous developer(s) at SouthPeak Games that made this all possible.

If you remember me mentioning Destructoid before, then you know that I've been involved with the site for quite some time. Well, on Thursday night I was officially appointed as the site's PC Game Editor. There wasn't that much fanfare, seeing as I've already been on the staff as a News Contributor for 3/4 of a year, but it's still been an awesome ( Read more... )

So like I said a while ago I was heading off to Cancun with most of the Destructoid crew. Although the trip happened a few weeks ago (April 3-6) I've been pretty busy since getting back. I even went on another trip the next weekend with my Journalism class to Missouri's college journalism awards banquet thingy. The banquet itself was pretty lame ( Read more... )

Even though it's still pretty early in the semester I just got through an interesting flurry of activity. See, I've joined the school paper this semester (following in the steps of my favorite Canadian? :o ) and have been having a pretty fun time getting used to things. Getting to hold story meetings, contacting people on my beats for news tips ( Read more... )

And it's kind of a little unnerving to think so many random people across the internet have been reading something I quickly put together but mostly it's pretty cool. :D

To start at the beginning I happened upon some laughably bad animated cut scenes a European game developer put in one of their PS2 games, Animal Soccer World. Although I sent ( Read more... )

Here's another Dtoid entry wherein I make boring statistics fun by combining them with...modern medicine?

On September 25th of this year the United States was hit by a third strain of the virulent Halococcus pathogen, infecting 2.7 million consoles within the first week of its outbreak. The Halo 3 (as it shall be referred to for short) infection ( Read more... )