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…
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Who’s the cutest cygnet? (and a new vid!)
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…
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The Most Terrifying Thing I’ve Encountered in Fallout 4
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…
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So, that ending to Mass Effect 3?
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…
10 Awesome Things About Dragon Age Inquisiton
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…
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Cranky Ladies of History, ahoy!
As we all know from, um, watching movies and stuff, timeliness is for losers. Thus, despite being released on International Women's Day, it's only now that I write this blog post on the ridiculously gorgeous anthology Cranky Ladies of History edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely, in which I have a story, 'Little…
Posh Mudcrabs
This should really be a post about Nine Worlds and/or Worldcon. It's not. It's a post about Posh Mudcrabs. Currently, my game of choice is Star Wars The Old Republic, which I love and adore and is letting me decorate houses at the moment, so I'm spending a lot of time killing Jedi, looting their…
