Alright, we’ve gone far too long with “hopeful predictions” and “joyous gifts.” It’s time to bring the hate. What was your biggest disappointment of a purchase in the previous year?
Review: Feet of Clay
Title: Feet of Clay Author: Terry Pratchett Year of Publication: 1996 Genre: Fantasy Length: 288 pages (hardcover version) Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price Review: Feet of Clay takes place on Discworld, a world in which Pratchett has written at least 35 novels. This particular book is part of the City Watch group (there […]
My Favorite Published Adventure
A little break from my boardgame design tribulations, as I take a look at tabletop rpgs… Publishing adventures is a tough business nowadays. While the Open Gaming License meant that there is a wealth of adventures to choose from, it also means that anyone can put out an adventure. While review sites like ENWorld have […]
Ringing in the New Year
It’s the beginning of the new year, which means the blogosphereoversointerwebtube is a buzz analyzing the previous year. Here’s some interesting highlights of the last week: Heidi over at The Beat sent a survey to a group of comics professionals about the biggest story in comics of the past year and what’s to come in […]
Testing My Resolve
Certainly a heavy stipulation to tag onto any resolution is the line “unless I die in the process,” but with a game as sinisterly difficult as Ultimate Ghosts’n’Goblins it may just come down to that. Given to me as a christmas present, I dove right in on December 25th and chose the Normal Difficulty level […]
YouTube of the Week: Dreadfully Precarious Position Edition
Because I’ve been reading the D&D retrospective book since xmas, here’s an early commercial for D&D from 1983.
Inq. of the Week: Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2007, I certainly hope the holidays and 2006 were kind to everyone and that the new year will bring many more good things to everyone! We’re jumping right in with our Inquisition of the week: What new technology do you predict for 2007? On October 23rd, 2001 the world was introduced to Apple’s […]
Review: Pan's Labrynth
Now this, this was a nice movie. Like Tim Burton only…. not cute in a creepy way. Billed as horror, well it had it’s moments. There was definitely some creep going on. There was some.. brutal, greusome moments. I had to hold milli’s head at parts and tell her when it’s over, while I was […]
Beware the Winter Solstice!
Thankfully we have passed this day, when the sun rises for only a few short hours, and now we have begun to blissful journey towards longer days and sunnier times. It may commonly be referred to as the Winter Solstice, which more accurately happened just into December 22nd, but technicalities aside we’re passed it and […]
Review: The Time Traveler's Wife
Title: The Time Traveler’s Wife Author: Audrey Niffenegger Year of Publication: 2004 Genre: Science Fiction Length: 536 pages Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife is hard to describe in so many words. When you break it down to it’s basic parts, it’s not much more than a tragic love […]
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