Wow–I have been inattentive to this yere blog. You’d think I was still on a semester’s-end schedule, where there are literally pounds of papers to grade every early December. Perhaps it’s body memory–you do something at a specified time for over forty years, your brain (and rear end) don’t forget. But I have no such [...]
Archive for the ‘Gaming and Tech’ Category
Desperately Seeking Staff of Chaos
Posted in Gaming and Tech on December 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
You’ve Come a Long Way, Elder Scrolls
Posted in Gaming and Tech on November 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Well, I’ve finally gotten into Skyrim. Like all the Elder Scrolls games, it has an entirely open game world where the player is free to roam as she wishes, ransacking dungeons, picking flowers to make potions, or picking pockets to make money if that is her avatar’s thing. Or she can pick up the main [...]
Play Your Krugman!
Posted in Gaming and Tech on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More wonderful stuff using game cards (this time from mightygodking.com): Nebraska should have played their Krugman at last Saturday’s game. The cards are borrowed from Magic: The Gathering, and there are lots more at the website cited above.
Presidential Candidates as D and D Characters
Posted in Gaming and Tech on November 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Perhaps you have seen these from Funny or Die. If not, here’s a link: http://www.funnyordie.com/lists/e0cb0351f6/presidential-candidates-explained-through-dungeons-and-dragons-character-sheets?playlist=featured_pictures_and_words. Here’s the Obama card for starters: I may have to choose a dark elf as my heroine in Skyrim when it hits my porch today, in homage to the wits at Funny or Die.
Fallout S’Mores
Posted in Gaming and Tech on August 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As you know, Trep, I’ve been playing Fallout: New Vegas lately. My hero is now level 27 (the limit is 30) and he can do just about everything with ease. And he looks so sexy with his beard, sheriff’s hat, and aviator glasses that I’m not sure I want to quit him just yet. [...]
Hello From Cool
Posted in Gaming and Tech on August 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well the A/C guys came to my house early this morning and fixed my wheezy old machine. Part of the repair included a new thermostat because the last one had lost touch with the world at large, not to mention the A/C itself. So I have one of those sexy new digital thermostats that has [...]
Veni, Vidi, Vici
Posted in Gaming and Tech on August 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Resisting . . . writing about . . . the debt . . . deal. I started playing Fallout: New Vegas again on Friday, once I finished the last round of proofreading our book. I spent half a day trying to figure out where my character is in terms of quest completion, and determining directions [...]
In Honor of Trep’s New Computer
Posted in Gaming and Tech on March 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
At long last I have come to appreciate modding. Snob that I am, I used to think that people who modified great games like Morrowind and Oblivion were on the same plane as people who repaint The Last Supper using characters from Lost: the results are funny, but they aren’t art. Mind changed. Over the [...]
A Veritable Blizzard of Video Games
Posted in Gaming and Tech on March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I clicked over to Amazon this morning to check out some sources recommended by books I’m reading, to discover that Dragon Age 2 was released today. Thanks to Amazon’s wonderful (and dangerous) “other things you might like” feature, I discovered that we are in for a cornucopia of new role-playing games this year. All are [...]
The Revolution Has Now Been Televised
Posted in Gaming and Tech on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this written on a sign being held up for CNN’s cameras in Tahrir Square. Honest! It also said “Thanks, Al-Jazeera.” I guess you have to say this for technology: it seems to make it much harder for despots to continue getting away with murder. That is, if Iran and Tunisia and Egypt are [...]
