Did a little house keeping on the site today. Updated the “How to read this site” page, published a more or less finished piece from last year, (Planned) May Viewing – Anime Edition and finally cleaned up the broken links and added some corrections and edition to Soulcalibur IV – A tale of blades and boobs eternally retold
Month: January 2012
[WIP] Solium Infernum – The Greatest Game – Turn 01 – 10 – Dipping a toe in damnation
Well my first every multiplayer game of Solium Infernum has just hit Turn 20 and in the parlance of the streets (where I grew up, yo!) – Shit just got real. Everything has kicked off as all the potential demonic rulers turn on one another. So now that decisions have been made, and because I posses as much skill in long term planning as an Anglo Irish Bank manager, I feel it’s safe to reveal the comedy of errors that were my initial ten turns (also Simon’s so far in the lead I cant imagine revealing this will do much damage). Continue reading…
Shooting my word wad
Well I announced a month or so ago I would try for weekly updates. I failed. But its a new year and I intend to do better. I’ve a few pieces waiting in the wings that I’ll finish up, college work load permitting. Hoping to start a new diet this week, as always you can follow my failure in pictorial form; stirring stuff indeed.
Best of 2011 – Games
I summed up video gaming in 2010 in one word, disappointment. For 2011 I’ll bump it up to two words, excellent and disappointing. There were a large number of releases I was looking forward to and thankfully the majority of them delivered, though not always as well as I was hoping. As always this list is a composite of things I’ve played in the year in question, not just what was released in the year, it probably doesn’t matter in the long run. As well as the Top 10 list itself I’ve also included an appendix of sorts where I give a line or two (and the first implementation of my new rating system, ooh the excitement) to all the game’s I’ve completed this year (and perhaps the ones I’ve played enough off to be comfortable making a judgement on). Also returning to education, in tandem with commuting, has eaten up a lot of prime game playing time, as such I’m a bit behind with the games I’ve played. I may get some of the backlog finished by the end of the month (currently December 6th). Continue reading…
[WIP] Solium Infernum – The Greatest Game – Turn 0 – Prelude to Naughtiness
Well as anyone who is lucky enough to read my facebook status updates knows I became rather enamored with the idea of indulging in a multiplayer game of Solium Infernum after reading the excellent series of play diaries on Rock, Paper, Shotgun. With hope in hand I sought out willing partners among my friends, but all my friends are bastards and crushed my fragile dreams. “Oh I’m too busy to even say no Mick I’ll just leave you sitting alone in your dark room sobbing and waiting for some kind of response”, bunch of cunts, almost makes me feel glad that I’ve been slipping infected blood into their food for months. Anyhow, my righteous retribution aside, I finally managed to ensnare two of my siblings and thus the game was, as Holmes would say, afoot! I bet he said stuff like that because he was out of his tits on smack all the time. Continue reading…
Busy doing nothing
I have done nothing for the past month, no college work, no personal projects, no anything really. Just sitting around staring into space waiting for time to pass, ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Hopefully I’ll manage to pull myself out of this lazily self destructive rut.