Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

Mount & Blade: Warband is still on sale... I thought it was just for the weekend but it's still $10.20 today... I love it. Realistic sword chopping n' shit... http://store.steampowered.com/app/48700/
Hey Dennis (or whoever is local) - do you want to go in on an order of game stuff from http://www.coolstuffinc.com/? I want to pick up DungeonQuest for cheap ($40ish) but you need to spend $100 for free shipping. I might pick up another game as well, but if you're interested, let me know. No rush.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

| DungeonQuest is so fun

The Adventures of Hugo the Glorious

Game 1: Hugo the Glorious was pursued by a shade for most of the adventure. Despite that, he got some sweet loot in the dragon's lair, including the precious Harp of Tranquility. Unfortunately, the doors slammed shut on him two spaces from the exit and he was no doubt killed horribly by the dragon.

Game 2: Hugo the Glorious decided to take a "shortcut" through the catacombs and was instantly bedeviled by traps, monster ambushes, rats, and poor-quality torches. He emerged near the dragon's lair, then promptly fell back into the catacombs through a trapdoor. Unfortunately, the fall was fatal.

Game 3: Hugo the Glorious bumbled through a series of cave-ins and trapped rooms before deciding to try the catacomb "shortcut" again. Although he rapidly found an exit, it placed him nowhere near the dragon's lair but instead right near one of the dungeon exits. Mulling over his options, he decided the handful of coins he'd found looting corpses and crypts was enough for him and bolted. Upon exiting, a mocking bottle imp granted the ashamed adventurer another handful of coins. Total loot: 510.
Mount And Blade:Warband is awesome, especially for $10 bucks. The first M&B doesn't have multiplayer, so just get Warband if you're interested. Warband is basically the original game with improvements and the addition multiplayer. It's a bit janky on the controls side, but it's a medieval 3rd person combat game that going for realism. So it's pretty friggen hard. But, it's addictive and the multiplayer is insane because there are servers with like over 100 people in them and there's times when the chaos of the mounted combat is just overwhelming. Makes you think "fuck, people really fought this way.." - Look it up on YouTube - it's no AAA-title, so it might not be your thing. I think it's a blast though. $10 bucks this weekend, but remember, just get Warband and not the original.
What's the deal with Mount & Blade?

Been looking around at previews for the new WoW stuff, and the way they've reworked all the zones looks really cool. I'm kinda fired up!

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Booty on the girl at 3:15 I think would've had Sir Mix-A-Lot's stamp of approval.

Ended up having a mini game day. Played the new Dungeonquest (really fun, and not at all impacted by the fact that we were totally drunk -- by the way, we started playing at about 11:30), got in a game of Small World, and a game Aeryk picked up called Claustrophobia -- basically a fantasy version of Space Hulk. Fun game.
Check out this video on the new Vlaada game Sneaks & Snitches - looks fun!
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Yeah, but does it do porn?

Happy belated Herr Dork.
The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks.

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Google.com is a great resource on the world-wide web that enables you to 'search' for pages on the internet! I found some great information about computers using it, try it out!
Google Maps is a robust location finder and has some great features like Satellite view and customized travel instructions by car, on foot, or using public transportation.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Google phone seems like it has some nice features and potential, will have to figure out some good uses for it.

Strategicon! Sept 3rd weekend!
I'll be attending for all of us. Thinking about chiming in on the Axis and Allies tourny parade for old times sake.
Google Voice looks pretty interesting. You can easily record a call between 2 people (you just click a button) and they also do conference calls (which you can't record YET!) Elrick, we should test it out, see how it feels with some mini podcast or something.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

They make us put in our vacation requests for work almost a year in advance - SO, already putting in for Aug 4-7 for Gen Con next year. Man, that's a whole year away! :(