Friday, August 21, 2009
Woo expansion!
Clearly the real cataclysm will be the hundreds of thousands of functional geeks losing their girlfriends within the same week. I just really, really, really hope I'm not among them. I rather like mine!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
This Just In
According to sources scattered throughout the Internet, "lol" is now an acceptable substitute for all punctuation marks.
Of Logs and the Backing Thereof
People often ask me, "how come you play so much WoW?" Well, the answer is multifaceted, but suffice to say three sub-answers can sum up the issue:
A) I actually don't. (Denial feels so good)
B) I find the world, environment, etc. particularly charming and I enjoy the game mechanics a great deal. It's nice having a source of entertainment be so dependent on number crunching and strategizing.
C) HAVE YOU SEEN MY BACKLOG?
In case you have not, realize this: for me, at the moment, entertainment is a job. I have a very short attention span of the medically relevant variety and I have a flair for being interested in things. Not only that, but I am aware of so much good material, especially in the popcorn variety of Science Fiction. I pick up a lot of books. So, without further ado, I present my lists.
In the vainest of attempts at a particular order
Books:
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Ilium by Dan Simmons
The Eisenhorn Omnibus by Dan Abnett
Deadhouse Gates by Steve Erikson
Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton, grandmaster pulpy-smart sci fi writer
Animal Spirits by Akerlof and Shiller
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (and actually finishing it this time).
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Lost King by Margaret Weis
Night of the Dragon by the ever hamfisted Richard Knaak
and the following things that wish they were a real artform like literature...comic books!
Only War
Blue Beetle--Reach for the Stars
And World of Warcraft volume 1 (I can feel you judging me from here, reader).
Video Games
The World Ends With You
Castlevania DS
Disgaea DS
Braid
More SF4
Renegade playthrough of Mass Erect
Lego Star Wars for the 360
I would say Lost Odyssey, but that game looks like utter tripe of the worst faux-metaphysical variety
Apparently the 5-6 game JRPG backlog that I had on my PS2 now stands again since I got the thing working. It's a great story really. Upon arriving in China to visit, I was informed by a person I trust who will remain anonymous that "over there" they use the same voltage as us red-blooded, meat eatin', Republican votin', war startin' Amurricans. I must have been one hell of a slow learner, because in my haste to show her all the things she had missed during a semester abroad, I not only blew out every single fuse on my 360's power brick, but I also tripped the circuit breaker in my hotel room several times. Clearly, I make good choices. I also tried to plug in the PS2 and each time I tried, the light would flash on, until it wouldn't. I was quite sad about all of this. Turns out that even though I practically turned my 360, or at least it's adapter, into a paperweight that my PS2 weathered the storm perfectly and now works. I don't even remember my backlog, but it is very, very, very long.
I suppose I should include a perfunctory attempt at a cultural observation like "just goes to show you how overwhelmed we are by entertainment. We're so obsessed with leisure as a culture that we can't even finish all our entertainment material." Sure, you can't read/watch everything, and that's why someone shouldn't settle for anything but the best. Plus, in sheer defiance of the odds, I might actually chew through said list of horror. At worst I will only read what I know to be the best going in. That all said, I remember a time when video games of the console variety were my big escape, fueling my imagination, letting my 10 year-old self do really cool things and all that other escapist fun. It's somewhat bittersweet then, that I find myself worried about how best to efficiently move through my entertainment material.
But what else would you expect from an economist?
So as you can see, I am an expert in procrastination while often procrastinating. That's right, I can delay having fun.
Plus there's the steampunk dragons with ace fighter pilots and heavy-handed homosexuality fantasy novel that "avoids all the tropes." Yeah fucking right. All we need are Kirk and Spock awkwardly making out and undressing each other after being imprisoned to run the entire gamut of fanfiction.
A) I actually don't. (Denial feels so good)
B) I find the world, environment, etc. particularly charming and I enjoy the game mechanics a great deal. It's nice having a source of entertainment be so dependent on number crunching and strategizing.
C) HAVE YOU SEEN MY BACKLOG?
In case you have not, realize this: for me, at the moment, entertainment is a job. I have a very short attention span of the medically relevant variety and I have a flair for being interested in things. Not only that, but I am aware of so much good material, especially in the popcorn variety of Science Fiction. I pick up a lot of books. So, without further ado, I present my lists.
In the vainest of attempts at a particular order
Books:
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Ilium by Dan Simmons
The Eisenhorn Omnibus by Dan Abnett
Deadhouse Gates by Steve Erikson
Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton, grandmaster pulpy-smart sci fi writer
Animal Spirits by Akerlof and Shiller
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (and actually finishing it this time).
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Lost King by Margaret Weis
Night of the Dragon by the ever hamfisted Richard Knaak
and the following things that wish they were a real artform like literature...comic books!
Only War
Blue Beetle--Reach for the Stars
And World of Warcraft volume 1 (I can feel you judging me from here, reader).
Video Games
The World Ends With You
Castlevania DS
Disgaea DS
Braid
More SF4
Renegade playthrough of Mass Erect
Lego Star Wars for the 360
I would say Lost Odyssey, but that game looks like utter tripe of the worst faux-metaphysical variety
Apparently the 5-6 game JRPG backlog that I had on my PS2 now stands again since I got the thing working. It's a great story really. Upon arriving in China to visit, I was informed by a person I trust who will remain anonymous that "over there" they use the same voltage as us red-blooded, meat eatin', Republican votin', war startin' Amurricans. I must have been one hell of a slow learner, because in my haste to show her all the things she had missed during a semester abroad, I not only blew out every single fuse on my 360's power brick, but I also tripped the circuit breaker in my hotel room several times. Clearly, I make good choices. I also tried to plug in the PS2 and each time I tried, the light would flash on, until it wouldn't. I was quite sad about all of this. Turns out that even though I practically turned my 360, or at least it's adapter, into a paperweight that my PS2 weathered the storm perfectly and now works. I don't even remember my backlog, but it is very, very, very long.
I suppose I should include a perfunctory attempt at a cultural observation like "just goes to show you how overwhelmed we are by entertainment. We're so obsessed with leisure as a culture that we can't even finish all our entertainment material." Sure, you can't read/watch everything, and that's why someone shouldn't settle for anything but the best. Plus, in sheer defiance of the odds, I might actually chew through said list of horror. At worst I will only read what I know to be the best going in. That all said, I remember a time when video games of the console variety were my big escape, fueling my imagination, letting my 10 year-old self do really cool things and all that other escapist fun. It's somewhat bittersweet then, that I find myself worried about how best to efficiently move through my entertainment material.
But what else would you expect from an economist?
So as you can see, I am an expert in procrastination while often procrastinating. That's right, I can delay having fun.
Plus there's the steampunk dragons with ace fighter pilots and heavy-handed homosexuality fantasy novel that "avoids all the tropes." Yeah fucking right. All we need are Kirk and Spock awkwardly making out and undressing each other after being imprisoned to run the entire gamut of fanfiction.
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