Sorry, gotta run!

I’ve got too many little projects on my plate and not enough time to complete them all. Between working on the two Let’s Plays I’m doing, I’ve had no time today to do much of anything except farm gold in 3D Dot Game Heroes when I should have been updating my website.

And now it’s […]

May 21st, 2010 | Category: Journal | One comment

The thing that ruins 3D Dot Game Heroes.

3D Dot Game Heroes is a mostly-fun game, but I don’t know if I can finish it. This game is a callback to 8-bit RPGs, which is pretty spot-on because I can’t remember being this unbelievably pissed off at a game since the NES days.

The overworld is fine; lots of fun nooks and crannies […]

May 20th, 2010 | Category: Gaming | Leave a comment

Top Five Best Survivor Seasons

“Brickroad what are you doing, it is not May 19th anymore!”

That’s true! But my schedule is nocturnal, and it’s easier for me to update later rather than earlier. So while it’s not May 19th for you, it still kinda is for me, because my schedule is all screwy and I am an unworthy human […]

May 19th, 2010 | Category: Survivor | 2 comments

Weird Movie Review: Renaissance

Shortly after being introduced to Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, my movie buff friend and I tried looking up some other stuff he’d been in. What we turned up was a film called Renaissance: Paris 1054.

Actually, we must have just found it on the shelf at Blockbuster and decided to give it a whirl. […]

May 18th, 2010 | Category: Entertainment | Leave a comment

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Finale

At the end of every season Probst congratulates the contestants and says something like, “This was one of our best seasons ever, if not the very best.” This season I think I actually agree with him. This was a fantastic season and virtually every player was a real joy to watch. Old players I […]

May 16th, 2010 | Category: Survivor | 3 comments

13 Weeks of Final Fantasy: Chocobos!

Week One: Personal Experiences Week Two: Our Heroes Week Three: Best Song Ever Week Four: Gameplay Wallbangers Week Five: The Big Bad Week Six: Ridiculously Broken Attacks Week Seven: Title Logos

Week Eight: Chocobos!

SPOILER ALERT!! This feature by its very nature contains spoilers for every Final Fantasy game. If you don’t want your cherry […]

May 16th, 2010 | Category: 13 Weeks of Final Fantasy | 10 comments

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, week thirteen

I can understand, psychologically, why bringing loved ones in for a challenge is important to the players. As a viewer, though, I always dread the loved ones episode; it’s virtually never strategically interesting. When they devote twelve minuets of an episode to greetings from Great Uncle Al followed by twelve more of weepy reunions, you’ve […]

May 15th, 2010 | Category: Survivor | One comment

The Human Centipede (I watched it because I hate myself)

The open secret of horror films is this: nothing on the screen can ever hope to match the diseased images of your own fevered imagination. It’s not really the film itself that gets slasher fiends and gorno junkies off, it’s the images in their heads. It’s the build-up, the anticipation, that really makes a film […]

May 14th, 2010 | Category: Entertainment | 2 comments

I win again!

Our latest Mafia game, a month-long behemoth involving a weird computer setting. This time I was a bad guy, and sacrificed myself for the good of my team. We ended up winning without losing another man.

There’s been some grumbling about how the game was loaded in our favor, and blah blah blah, but nerts […]

May 13th, 2010 | Category: Gaming, Journal | One comment

Three dungeons later…

3D Dot Game Heroes is a love letter to oldschool RPGs. Specifically, every oldschool RPG. There are throwbacks from everything to Final Fantasy to Zelda to Dragon Quest, and probably a bunch of obscure Japanish stuff I don’t know about.

Gameplay-wise, it is The Legend of Zelda. I mean right down to the grid-based dungeon […]

May 12th, 2010 | Category: Gaming | Leave a comment
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