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YouTube of the Week: Shortened Saga Edition

October 3, 2006 by Dave

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

Online gambling measure attached to Port Security Bill in Senate

October 2, 2006 by drscotto

In case you have not yet heard yet, my dear friends (and I mean that in all sincerity, without sarcasm) in the Republican party have successfully attached an anti-online gambling act to a recent measure address port security. This was a saavy political move done by majority leader Bill Frist as a means of ensuring […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, News, Poker, Video Games

Inquisition of the Week: One Year Later

October 2, 2006 by Dave

Critical-hits.com is one year old! We started in August of 2005 under the name “Great Justice” as a temporary site to get WordPress up to speed. Our staff then started exchanging emails about what to call the site. There were a number of names that I liked but were centered around “Nerd Pride” which not […]

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week, News Tagged With: anniversary

Review: Straight Outta Lynwood

September 28, 2006 by Dave

After last Sunday’s premier of a Robot Chicken episode that featured a Weird Al video, the Adult Swim bump said something to the effect of: “If you took a time machine back to 1986 and said, in 20 years, Micheal Jackson = flamed out, Weird Al = still relevant, we’d have laughed our asses off.” […]

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Music, Reviews

Game Designers: WTF?

September 28, 2006 by Bartoneus

Something very disturbing happened in the last few days, a bunch of game developer’s blogs passed around discussions on balance (particularly in MMOs) and some of the conclusions that were made seem unsettling. A hilarious, and informative, summary can be found at WorldIV. The first part of the discussion I stumbled upon was at Psychochild’s […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Romantic Computers Cannot Cry

September 27, 2006 by Bartoneus

I’ll start off with an apology for not having a comic or any kind of new drawing for this week, it’s been an off week in general. I will, however, dazzle you with an amazing (and true) proverb! Pretty much all online sites with comments get innundated with spam, and we are no exception. Thankfully […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM

You Tubes of the Week: Of Nerds and Hardware Stores Edition

September 26, 2006 by Dave

A double dose of Weird Al this week: His new album, Straight Outta Lynwood, is released today. Go buy it!

Filed Under: Comics, Music, News, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

Inquisition of the Week: Heroes

September 25, 2006 by Bartoneus

I stumbled upon a very interesting, quick article written by none other then Frank Miller, you can find it here. It stands on the border of being perfectly written as far as length and content, I feel it is a bit too brief but there is really nothing more I can think I would want […]

Filed Under: Comics, Inquisition of the Week, Television

OSU/GAMA/Wargamer Study Results

September 22, 2006 by Dave

Remember that survey I asked you all to take? They have the first “sortie” of data back. They haven’t gone indepth with the analysis yet (and they admitted it was flawed in a few ways) but what we do have back are some not so surprising results- perhaps surprising in how overwhelming they are. 93% […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, Editorial, News, Roleplaying Games

This is How a Guild Dies (part 2)

September 22, 2006 by Bartoneus

Welcome back, I assume you enjoyed the puppies.  We left off on our story at the vicious modem refusing to bear its electronic burden, instead opting to commit ritual sepuku on a regular basis.  I was driven temporarily insane, either from the lack of constant internet or because of solar flares, it could have been […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM

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