New Disgaea

August 27th, 2008

Best time sink ever

The newest Disgaea came out recently.  I am currently trying to play the game to death in an effort to both enjoy it and write reviews on it.

Also, three days isn’t a long time to go without a post.

Oreos

August 24th, 2008

All that frosting goodness

So Oreos are the snack that everyone loves, unless you are unable to enjoy chocolate and thus hate life.  A few years ago they came out with the double stuf ones that involve twice the frosting at the core.  This is nasty.

The point of an Oreo is milk, and thus the cookie crust thing on the outside.  When you go around doubling up on the things that aren’t cookie you start to get less and less milk absorption per cookie.  This is wrong and must be stopped.

The balance with the original Oreo was correct.   If you want more icing crammed into something go out and buy a giant tube of the stuff and have at it, because you are clearly missing the point of awesome.

Also don’t introduce the “just cookie” thing either, because those things are nasty without milk.

Free games

August 21st, 2008

You can’t really argue with free games.

On the left you have Sam and Max: Freelance Police Season 2, and on the right you have Too Human.  Both of them are reviews that I gladly have due some time around Saturday of this week.  Next week I have about four other games that I have to review.

Too Human gets included in this story because it is a difficult game to write a review about.  Also so the image would seem more centered.

Sam and Max is the real story, as it is the first time that a company contacted me directly and asked if I would like to review the box copy of a downloadable games I have been reviewing all along.  The strange thing is that I have only contacted them once, and that was for an early copy of the walkthrough for the last game in the series.

It is kind of interesting because during the entire release of all of the games I have done nothing besides sing the praises of how wonderful the entire series is.  That probably has to do with why they contacted me directly, but still free game.

Dinner with Veronica’s Parents

August 16th, 2008

If it wasn’t raining it might have been beautiful out

The other day Veronica and I went to visit her parents at a house that they were renting for vacation.  When we got there it was nice and almost sunny out, and the view was beautiful as you could see into Vermont and the green mountains.   I didn’t manage to get a picture of that because five minutes later it started to cloud up and threatening to rain.  I am pretty sure that this constant rain is some how following Veronica and I in attempts to flood us out.

The most interesting thing about the trip wasn’t the view, or the neat little chair on the lack that I didn’t go near because I new I would slip and kill myself on the way out, but instead the food.  Veronica’s parents managed to do the one thing that few people have ever managed to do, ever.  Prepare way more food than I could possibly eat.

A short list of what was there includes, steak, lobster, shrimp, and clams.  That was just the main stuff, there was lots more too.  Also the lobster was the biggest thing I have ever seen.  If I had seen that crawling at me I would instantly become convinced that they were trying to take over and we should all take up arms against all lobster kind, it was seriously that big.

Geek Awards

August 12th, 2008

Awesomely expensive!

So I am a giant, massive geek.  I don’t think that anyone who comes to this blog with any amount of frequency would deny that.  The problem is that there are even bigger geeks than I, and these people always seem to have entirely too much money at any given time.

The beer mug above is a perfect example of this:  coming in either Horde or Alliance designs it allows you to drink while still telling everyone “I am very proud of my level 70 Draeni Shadow Priest”.  The secondary purpose it more clouded, but all those who are present will know, that the person holding it has officially won as a geek and should be feared for their waxing grasp on reality.

Don’t get me wrong, I totally want one.  The only problem is that they are priced at 70 dollars (free shipping if you buy two or more though) and at that price I am more of a “drinking straight from the bottle” kind of guy.