Archive for December, 2009
A quick head’s up: I have a throat so sore it feels like esophageal gnomes are stabbing my throatmeats with searing hot knives. So, if this post really derails, or is too short, or just stops somewhere in the middle, I probably couldn’t take it anymore and had to pour boiling kettle water into my [...]
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Dragon Age: Origins is like a drunken parent. When times are good — times are really good. Lots of laughs and presents and love, all warming you with the hypnotic wash of whiskey breath. When times are bad — boy, they suck. It’s all rage and thrown furniture and grotesque shame, all hidden behind a [...]
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(View supersized!) And so it was that our Xeno-Messiah — hermaphroditic spawn of the Jovian Overlord — was born into this plane of existence, pulled from his ultradimensional pocket. The Gospel Of John Spiderface In those days, an e-mail went out from Caesar Chewbacca to all the people in the world. This was the first [...]
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And by “review,” I mean, “hastily scrawled impressions.” Let’s just get out of the way: fuck it, I loved it. Is it great? Mmm, nehhhh, ehhhh, no. That’s perhaps the film’s greatest shame — it falls short of being truly great. Still, considering that my entry-level expectations were, “This is going to be a big [...]
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Been flipping through Geist: The Sin-Eaters again, largely because the Book of the Dead (which I developed) is now out on PDF and should soon be out on shelves (which means I’ll get my copies sometime before the next Ice Age). Y’know, I really dig this game. I wasn’t sure I would. I knew I [...]
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