If you live near a Borders…

…you could do worse than to check and see if yours is one of the Borders locations that’s going out of business. If so, now’s a great time to go stock up on ridiculous books, board games, and as many silly novelty pens as you can get your hands on. Everything in these closing stores […]

These spammers are getting harder to please.

I went ahead and turned comment moderation off when I realized that I hadn’t had to manually trash a spam comment for at least a couple months. Apparently my spam-detection plug-in is pretty savvy! That got me to thinking, though, about whether there were any “false positives” sitting around in the ol’ spam folder. I […]

Breath of Fire: Which should you play first?

Since making all these Breath of Fire posts, and starting a topic about it on Talking Time, a few people have expressed interest in the series without knowing where they should get started. I thought this would be a good opportunity to provide an overview of the whole series.

The first thing to understand about […]

Jocelyn Beauregard, Private Eye (part thirteen)

Having completed NaNoWriMo ’10, I’m going to share one section of my story here every Friday until you’ve read the whole thing. Hooray for easy update days! Enjoy.

The setup was less than ideal. Sitting on the cot wasn’t uncomfortable, not exactly, but it was difficult. If Jocelyn wobbled or shifted her weight too much […]

Breath of Fire 3: Skills and Masters

One of the characteristics shared by the Breath of Fire games is “neat gameplay systems that are never adequately explained”. All five games have some pretty cool ideas you can play around with, but because of translation issues or outright laziness the rules are nearly impossible to understand without reading a FAQ. I suppose the […]

Two Years Etc.

…and somewhere in there, scibbe.com turned two years old. The archives are big and bloated enough now that I can’t keep them in my working memory. I’m pretty sure I’ve managed to keep the whole thing daily, but I couldn’t swear to it at this point.

I want to change the site somewhat, but I’m […]

Breath of Fire: Boob Socks

Not content to just be playing one Breath of Fire game, I started a new run in Dragon Quarter this morning. (Technically I started two runs, when I screwed something up in the first dungeon and had to SOL:Restart almost immediately. Go me!) This game is pretty good, but it has some rather… questionable character […]

RPG Party Cycling

Playing Breath of Fire III, I’m discovering another gaming habit that I’ve changed dramatically somewhere along the line. Back when this game was new I used to have a “favorite” team in whatever RPG I was playing, which I did not deviate from unless the game absolutely demanded it. Nowadays I’m far more inclined to […]

Five Things I Had Forgotten About Breath of Fire III

Breath of Fire III was one of my favorite RPGs back in the day, but I’ve never completely replayed it. Thanks to my good pal SovanJedi I’ve recently come into possession of a copy for PSP, and I sank six hours into it last night at work. Here are a few things I noticed about […]

Risky’s Revenge Maps

When I played Shantae: Risky’s Revenge last week (for the third time) I decided to draw some maps of the game in hopes of getting my future times down.

That sentence sucked but you get the general point. I doubt my horrific scrawlings will make much sense to anyone who isn’t a Brickroad, but here […]