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Review: Mass Effect 2

February 26, 2010 by Vanir

Mass Effect 2: It’s like Breakin’ 2 – Electric Boogaloo, but without all that messy breakdancing. You can’t do that in a vacuum. Turbo and Boogaloo Shrimp would implode. That is, unless Special K can discover her biotic abilities in time.

Filed Under: Humor, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: bioware, frustrating game elements, mass effect, mass effect 2, miranda lawson, sniper rifles, stupid mining, wang dang space poontang, warp bullets

Will of The Forsaken (WTF for short)

February 23, 2010 by Vanir

There was a full decade of my life when I declared there were two things I’d never play. One was MMO’s. I decided this when a guy I knew quit his job to play Everquest full time and mooch off his girlfriend. The other was collectible card games, because I was astounded at how much money one could drop on them. This decision was made easy to live with by being in college and/or mostly poor. Over the last two years, both of these vows have been broken.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Dire Flailings, Humor, Video Games Tagged With: ccg, collectible card games, kazamonsteelskinftw, mtg, warcraft, world of warcraft, WoW, wow tcg, wowtcg

Cooties

February 16, 2010 by Vanir

For some guys, talking to girls is difficult. A look back upon mistakes made, and hopes for the future. Also, boobs get mentioned.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Humor, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: adolescence, burlap, cinemax, clueless, cooties, dragon age, girls, hitchhiker's guide, mass effect 2, neo-otyugh, red sonja, relationships, space gonorrhea

Two Scoops

February 9, 2010 by Vanir

In the immortal words of Muse, from the book of Cydonia: “Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.”

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: atari 2600, bioware, elcor, fun factor, lolelcor, mass effect, mass effect 2, xenofeces

Stephen Colbert and The Rats of iCrap

February 2, 2010 by Vanir

Take a stroll down memory lane. Remember what it was like to spend all your Mom’s money 50c at a time on Dragon’s Lair. Weep at the loss of Commodore and the Amiga. Find out Apple’s place in the universe, and if any of this seemingly random information relates to each other!

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Television, Video Games Tagged With: amiga, apple, arcade games, Bill Murray, cartoons, cinematronics, classic gaming, don bluth, dragon's lair, easter eggs, ghostbusters, il, iPad, jeff minter, lion-o, lorenzo music, mega man, pekin, peter venkman, retrogaming, roberta williams, thundercats, voice acting, yuukichan's papa

Uncle Vanir’s Jedi Jamboree

January 26, 2010 by Vanir

I personally would like to see every last one of the Presidents of the United States in a fighting game, their legacy distilled into a couple of special attacks.

Filed Under: Comics, Dire Flailings, Humor, Movies, Television, Video Games Tagged With: ghostbusters, legend of zelda, POTUS Powerups, power girl, presidential fighting game, star wars, super smash bros. brawl, Transformers, wonder woman

Under New Management

April 1, 2009 by Vanir

Good day! I am Vanir the Chatty DM. You probably came here expecting Phil the Chatty DM. I’m sorry to say that Phil has taken an extended leave of absence due to a severe poutine-related injury and will not be back for some time. In the meantime, he has handed his cape and sceptre to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Tropes Tagged With: 2phils1cup, phil_almighty, rpgbloggers, Tropes

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