Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
I seem to be an uncle. God help us.
The fetus growing inside sibling has successfully navigated the slippery slope to personhood.
7 pounds. It has a length yet to be discerned. For some reason those numbers are usually reported.
Oh, it also has a penis.
They named it William Isaac. I assume it was named after William H. Macey and Isaac Jaffe.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
New Years Boardgames
I know it's a bit late, but once again, for anyone interested I will be hosting board games all day New Year's eve and all day New Years.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Path of Exile: Release / Beta Packs
Reminder that Path of Exile will be live in about 20 minutes. Free to download. Free to play.
Also reminder that you still have 14 hours to purchase a Beta Supporter pack. If you plan to ever buy points for the game, now is the time to do it!
I reached end-game content, and was planning to write another review. But now that I think about it, I can easily review the game by providing a few comparisons.
Docks Runs = Blood Runs
Merv Runs = Mephisto Runs
Temple Runs = Baal Runs
I am not shitting you. Path of Exile is the sequel to Diablo 2 that we always wanted.
Path of Exile is Diablo 2: LoD 2.
This coming from a guy who still logs in to battle.net to keep his Realm characters from expiring.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Pokemon X/Y : It's like Path of Exile, but most of them aren't rocks
You guys, there's a new Pokemon game, and it's a lot like the other Pokemon games, but this one is just basically fucking full of polygons. At one point while playing, you'll probably take a look at Pikachu, expecting to see some variation of the sprite that has become so familiar your brain has actually grown around it over time, like a tree slowly enveloping a nearby fence post.
But there's no sprite! Your brain tree recoils, decades of growth undone, then registers the fact that there's a three dimensional model of Pikachu, and when he opens his mouth, a GameBoy-era digital screech does not come out, but a voice sample from the anime. It is so startlingly revolutionary that I fear I err on the side of understatement when I say that the moment has not and never will be surpassed, even if we were to one day land on the moon.
Otherwise, the game is pretty standard. I like a lot of the new Pokemon, I like that I'm only using birds as much as possible, and I like that you can farm the everloving shit out of berries in a dedicated berry farm, and not some ridiculous network of overlooked parcels of land spread out over an entire country. I also like that the experience share device is given to you pretty early, and applies to all Pokemon in your party. I sort of like the mini-games that let you dick around with your party and raise their musical note stat, and that they finally moved EV training to the forefront and made a game out of it. I like that you can change your trainer's appearance, I like that the roller skates that make travel a lot quicker, I like that you can run inside buildings, and I like that these mundane things are the most notable improvements they've made to the series since I last checked in at Pearl.
Well, ok, they've also improved the internet stuff, which works a lot better. You can trade and battle and talk to people locally or over the tubes far easier than I would have ever expected Nintendo to allow. Even if you're not in a Pokemon Center, upstairs standing around in front of a desk like an idiot, you can initiate a trade. Even if you haven't entered in your system friend code, your game friend code, and/or scanned your Club Nintendo card in your e-Reader, you can connect to other players. It's pretty great.
On the whole, I give Pokemon X/Y five Eevee armies out of a possible Bidoof Cyclone
But there's no sprite! Your brain tree recoils, decades of growth undone, then registers the fact that there's a three dimensional model of Pikachu, and when he opens his mouth, a GameBoy-era digital screech does not come out, but a voice sample from the anime. It is so startlingly revolutionary that I fear I err on the side of understatement when I say that the moment has not and never will be surpassed, even if we were to one day land on the moon.
Otherwise, the game is pretty standard. I like a lot of the new Pokemon, I like that I'm only using birds as much as possible, and I like that you can farm the everloving shit out of berries in a dedicated berry farm, and not some ridiculous network of overlooked parcels of land spread out over an entire country. I also like that the experience share device is given to you pretty early, and applies to all Pokemon in your party. I sort of like the mini-games that let you dick around with your party and raise their musical note stat, and that they finally moved EV training to the forefront and made a game out of it. I like that you can change your trainer's appearance, I like that the roller skates that make travel a lot quicker, I like that you can run inside buildings, and I like that these mundane things are the most notable improvements they've made to the series since I last checked in at Pearl.
Well, ok, they've also improved the internet stuff, which works a lot better. You can trade and battle and talk to people locally or over the tubes far easier than I would have ever expected Nintendo to allow. Even if you're not in a Pokemon Center, upstairs standing around in front of a desk like an idiot, you can initiate a trade. Even if you haven't entered in your system friend code, your game friend code, and/or scanned your Club Nintendo card in your e-Reader, you can connect to other players. It's pretty great.
On the whole, I give Pokemon X/Y five Eevee armies out of a possible Bidoof Cyclone
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