May 2012
14 posts
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Skyrim: Why Draugr are Cooler than Zombies
Well, Lady Luck is on my side in so many ways today, not least because I was planning on writing a Skyrim article the very day the Dawnguard DLC trailer was put up.
Anyways, as some of you know I have, in fact, written a story about zombies. In point of fact, Matt Grandstaff from Bethesda Game Studios was the first person to retweet my story, which can be found here. However, I had some problems...
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I Am My Cat's Dealer
This is just one of the little posts about my personal life. By some freak of chance I happen to be the last person to leave the house most mornings. As such, it’s often me who gives the cat her treats. Unfortunately, it’s gotten to the point where I have become her dealer. I am “the treats guy” and while this means I am the favorite (which is great), it also means when she...
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The Best Thing Ever?
So I finished the Discworld novel, Snuff. In it, I heard that in Britain apparently bacon sandwiches are actually a thing. I’ll talk about Discworld some more on Thursday, but for now I want to talk about the bacon sandwich.
So I heard a rumor that bacon sandwiches serve as a magnificent hangover cure. I assumed that was all placebo combined with the inherent goodness of bacon. As it...
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Not A Review: Why Song of Ice and Fire Works
This isn’t a review. I did a review of Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin and season one of Game of Thrones on HBO on my livejournal back when I did that. I’ve even tackled the descriptive style of the books series here on tumblr, and this is related to that but is not it.
This thread is about why the books work so well. Okay, not entirely because there’s a lot of...
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Dr. Light is Elmer Fudd
You heard me. Go to youtube and listen to voice clips of both of them. If you listen to the Dr. Light of Megaman 8, he has somewhat similar vocal patterns to Elmer Fudd. For all the flaws of its ending, go back to Mass Effect and look at Conrad Verner. Despite being what we call in the business “a dumb bastard,” when he isn’t trying to be an action hero Dr. Verner is actually a...
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The Elder Scrolls Online Update
Hi guys, just a quick entry before I go do my haircut, but I think that The Elder Scrolls Online has a problem.
That problem is, every new piece of information I hear dampens my enthusiasm. It seems in every new article that GameInformer puts up online there is some piece of long-established lore that Zenimax is basically ignoring.
So yeah, I am increasingly un-enthused about this game. I have...
kirip asked: JOE, IS IT TRUE THAT THEY MODELED A VAGINA FOR THE BANSHEE IN MASS EFFECT 3?
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Master Plan Continued
So some of you may recall my “master plan” to get to RvBTO. That was, to make it as simple as possible, to sell as many copies of In Delirium Bloom to get me there and Vacation & Holiday Mayhem to get me home. Both of these were set up and released through Libboo.com.
I don’t have the actual sales numbers, but I am encouraged, emboldened and all manner of things starting...
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Mass Effect 3 Ending Reactions (Huge Spoiler)
Warning! Spoilers ho! HO, THE MEGAPODE!
I loved every second of the game until the ending, which killed the whole thing for me. I had assumed, when people said “bad ending that doesn’t offer real choice,” that is was just lackluster and they were knee-jerking. But let me run through my reactions of the last mission.
I get to Earth, wow this is crazy and it’s so pumping!...
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The Avengers
Sorry this is so late at night, but I just feel like I need to do this today to keep (or really reset) my schedule.
So I did see Avengers the Monday after opening weekend. During its development I was concerned about three things. The first was “the strength of the current Marvel movies is that they really let the characters do their thing. How can they match that in an ensemble...
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Elder Scrolls Online
I changed my mind, I’ll write about this.
So today The Elder Scrolls Online was announced. Personally, I expect it to crash and burn because WoW has cornered the fantasy MMO market.
I’ll give it a try if I ever get a good computer and it isn’t a monthly subscription thing. Basically, if it’s microtransactions, which I think is a really good payment model because...
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Writing Talks: Libboo
Today Libboo, the company through which both my current short stories have been published, is at a techstars demo pitching the publishing model… OF THE FYOOO-CHURRRR!!!!!*
As such, I’d really rather just give them a general plug than do something on a specific book. Trust me and give their site, libboo.com, a good looking at because there’s a load of content on their site and...
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Ten Years of Morrowind
So today is the ten-year anniversary of the release of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. That game has a huge place in my heart and mind, so I feel like it is a good day to really dig into my history with it. As all truly worthwhile anecdotes start, so shall this one:
No shit, there I was in the Gamestop. I was a kid, early-mid teens at latest. I was always big on, as I called them at the time,...
