I actually tried playing the original Witcher last night! I was a little tipsy, and it felt like FOREVER until all the cinematics were done and it let me play, but the overhead-grip-waddle he does in “strong stance” was so unintentionally hilarious I forgave it. I did kind of find myself wishing we’d just get a good…

Interesting. Do they not have macros in WoW? I’ve never played it, but Ultima Online has a fairly extensive macro system built into it that allows you to program just about any action, such as repeatedly fishing in certain areas to gain skills, or crafting a lot of specific potions, etc. Admittedly, this is a…

Yes, I agree. We’ve always stressed to our vet that we will do anything for our cats (the running joke now is that because we’re so paranoid of their health, whenever we go in we just mime “making it rain” all over the cat whenever they need something), as long as it isn’t prolonging their misery or pain. My husband…

Not really. In most cases, all you’re doing is unzipping files to the appropriate places, usually a single directory. The biggest problem you can get is running into mods that don’t work well with one another if you’re running a lot of them, or need to be loaded in a certain order... this can lead to a lot of crashes…

Nice! Fallout 3 and New Vegas are games I can just turn on and sort of turn my brain off and wander in. I don’t know that I’ve ever finished the main quest in either, which sort of makes my husband insane... I’ll be like, “Gosh, this area sure is unreasonably hard and filled with things that can kill me in one hit,”…

I was once at Batali’s expensive restaurant in Vegas for a nice night out with my husband. The table next to us, the only other table in the restaurant because it was late in the evening, was this group of older, loud, boisterous men in business suits. They were talking loudly about the women who worked in their…

I’ve had people express disbelief and mock me for how much I’ve spent on medical bills for my cats. I’ve had two... one who had heart failure for a year that required a ton of medication and weekly vet visits, and one who was abruptly diagnosed with lung cancer who treatment ultimately couldn’t save. Some people…

It’s mostly a pacing issue that I’m criticizing. The first book went into every occurrence in his life in detail. The second leaps around so much and builds up plot points as these important things that it drops altogether by quickly shoving them under the rug and barely addressing them. It makes for an uneven…

What a tiny, tiny head. That poor man.

My favourite scenery will always be the stuff in Morrowind, simply because I’d never seen anything like it at the time. I remember wandering through a field of those huge jellyfish creatures at night and happening to look up and seeing those GORGEOUS starfields and planets and just being shocked. It really made you…

Sims modders are seriously amazing. (Most modders, actually.) I remember way back during the Sims 2, one of the more prolific, deliberately incendiary modders created a barbecue that allowed Sims to cook and eat babies as a joke. To say the community lost its mind is a bit of an understatement. While plenty of people…

Yes, I know. :) I wasn’t saying I didn’t get why it was popular, just that it was impressive it’s turned into such a huge phenomenon, regardless of whether it’s my bag or not. There’s popular, and then there’s “small indie project suddenly available as clothing at a multi-billion dollar corporation’s theme park”…

I did in fact e-mail the photo and the story but didn’t receive a response.

The whole phenomenon surrounding this is kind of impressive. My husband and I live near Universal Orlando, so we go there a lot. They have a lot of those spray paint clothing vendors, where you pick a design and a piece of clothing (hat, shirt... other shirt... ) and they put your name or whatever on it. Typically…

The only trolling I think I’ve ever done was when a friend of mine was teaching me to play this team-based combat game. I was terrible at it (I usually am at competitive play), so I was playing sniper to stay out of the way, and he was on the other team. I messaged him asking where he was, and when he told me he was…

I can’t think about gory fighters without thinking about Thrill Kill. Waaaaaaaaay back in the day of scandalously modding the PS One (or as we called it... the Playstation), a friend of mine got her hands on a burnt copy of it, and let me tell you, that was a game that was FAR more fun to talk about and speculate on…

I would also say to make sure you have proper form and you’re doing everything correctly with the maximum effort you can. Not only do you run the risk of hurting yourself without proper form, you’re not working out the right set of muscles as efficiently as possible, which means you’re sweating and groaning for less…

I remember one time I was in line at Game Stop behind this woman who was buying something for her son, and was carrying a, like, younger than toddler baby as well. The girl at the register had this cute little pin in her hair that looked like a little yellow rubber duck, and the woman is pointing it out to her baby,…

I love DBZ. I grew up watching it religiously on YTV back home in Canada, and it’s so cheesy goofy fun. “Thus the remaining Z warriors must battle against Frieza and his army in the hope that Goku will somehow arrive in time to defeat the alien monster.” Just replace “Frieza and his army” with whatever the name of the…

Maybe it’s a burn, maybe it’s a response to the “dance for a dare” story above, but I still remember this girl from I think my first year of junior high? (I think I told this story once before.) Call her May, I guess. She kept to herself, but never really seemed bothered by it or embarrassed, never wore makeup, had a…