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I think the theme of these blogs is "nick something I saw on Twitter and turn it into a blog post". It's not the best plan, probably, but it definitely doesn't sound like the worst either. Anyway, there was a meme a few days ago asking for your Top 5 Video Games of the Decade.…
I started a new (short) series of a playthrough of the CLASSIC 1992 RPG/strategy game Dune, based on the book (and heavily influenced by David Lynch's movie). It's an AWESOME game. And also if you search "the spice must flow" on YouTube I'm number 18. (My most successful tag to date is "you have died…
So the loch I try and have a daily run by is still frozen over, and some of the swans have taken to investigating the land. And this cygnet came up to me making ridiculously cute noises - I'd no idea swans had cute noises! And I snapped a few pics. (Mummy swan was not…
Continue reading ➞ Who’s the cutest cygnet? (and a new vid!)
I am sleeping so badly this week. And I know part of it's down to ridic anxiety with the world at large. Not even mental health related anxiety, since I really don't think it's irrational to be anxious given the daily news of what's going on. As my dear friend Deb Stanish put it on…
There I was, just helping out a guy who'd locked his father in an asylum after he got an ancient artifact stuck to his head 400 years ago and lost his grip on reality, when I opened a door and there was this: In the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 4, these bloody monkeys are…
Continue reading ➞ The Most Terrifying Thing I’ve Encountered in Fallout 4
I've spent the past four years avoiding spoilers about Mass Effect 3, but now I've finished my first playthrough, I can go read as much spoilericous content as I like, hurrah! (This is a subtle hint there will be many ME3 spoilers in this entry.) I hate to be spoiled on a first runthrough of…
Last week I finished my first runthrough of Dragon Age Inquisition, and I loved it. Ridiculously. First, it's Bioware, and I've yet to meet a Bioware game I haven't liked, and secondly, it's Dragon Age, which has my RPG heart. (Yes, I love Mass Effect, and think it is brilliant and fem!Shep is one of…
Continue reading ➞ 10 Awesome Things About Dragon Age Inquisiton
