The past few weeks I’ve had a number of my personal gaming pet peeves come up at the table, giving me pause to wonder what things do we, as gamers, hate the most? Those little quirks that irritate us and maybe grind our teeth, taking us out of the moment or just causing us to roll our eyes. I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours… more…
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Et tu?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Abulia’s birthday is coming up — something that lately I dread more than enjoy — and I’ll cross into that realm of closer-to-40-than-30 (37). Something I’ve always been accused of is that I’m “difficult” to shop for. Personally, I don’t think that’s true. I think I’m easy to shop for because I have such a narrow focus of interests. Were anyone to know me for any length of time — like, say, my wife — you’d know what I’d probably like. Off the top of my head:
- A decent pair of headphones for my iPhone
Heroes S1 HD-DVD- My Tears For Fears posters from the 80s re-framed
- An Xbox 360 game (or a pre-pay for an upcoming game)
iLife 08- A night playing the Star Trek RPG
- Miscellaneous RPG/gaming books
- New Orleans Saints apparel
- New fuzzy dice for my car
Difficult? Bah!
Category: Rant, Stuff
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WTB 24hrs…PST!
Thursday, August 02nd, 2007
I have essentially two episodes to prep for this weekend and ZERO time to do it. And a party to organize.
Abulia is not happy. 
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Stargate: SG-Gone
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Catching up on my TiVo I finished up the final season of Stargate SG-1 and am still in shock. Worst finale ever? Certainly worse than Seinfield, that’s for certain.
This episode broke every rule of television and sci-fi. It was hollow and without depth or purpose. It was a time travel episode that ended with “it never happened” mechanic. There was no send off of the characters, no closure, and certainly no resolution of the storyline of the past season. That was left for the episode prior, apparently. Beyond it just being a bad story — “we’re trapped in a deus ex machina time dilation loop!” — you sat there wondering when something would happen.
The largest affront for me was omitting General O’Neill. Ten years and they couldn’t craft a better story and a cameo of the person that the entire show was built around?
I’m utterly disgusted. If anything this show has demonstrated that with ten minutes of thought and an ounce of concern in telling a good story that the Stargate SG-4 finale ought to blow this turd out of the water.
Category: Pop Culture, Rant, Stargate
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Love Stinks
Monday, April 16th, 2007
I picked up a new leather executive chair for my office at home and love it. It looks great, feels extra comfy, and has great back support. Unfortunately it stinks…literally! This isn’t just leather, it’s treated with something. My office reeks of the smell and the chemical or…whatever…makes my eyes burn.
So now my office has the window open, it’s freezing cold, it smells, and I can’t be in there for more than 15 minutes or my eyes tear up like when Spock died in Wrath of Khan.
But hey, at least it’s comfy, right?
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Flame On!
Monday, September 18th, 2006
Across the Atlantic, several airlines — most recently Virgin — have banned Apple and Dell laptop use onboard the aircraft. Citing the rash of laptop batteries that have burst into flames, these two computer manufacturers have been singled out. What’s interesting is that there have been, what, only five cases of these exploding batteries over the past several years? Why ban them now? As I said last week, airlines and aviation security are nothing but reactionary; it wasn’t a problem until Dell and Apple took the rational step and issued a recall doing the right thing.
What about customers that have had their batteries already fixed and replaced? Or owners of Apple and Dell laptops that weren’t part of the recall? Is Jane Stewardess going to know the difference between a PowerBook G4 and a Mac Book Pro?
So the lesson here is be an ethical corporate entity and do right by your customers and then take it on the chin as the airlines ban you. Nice.
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Have They Won?
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
I was not keen on flying on September 11th on my business trip to Phoenix, and apparently no one else was either. The Sunday flight I took was packed but more so, after being anal-probed and prodded in security, I’m wondering when enough is enough? more…
Category: Pop Culture, Rant
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Clicks for the Children
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
I’ve spoken about the sensationalism of meadia sites such as CNN before, particularly their penchant for running stories on child deaths, but this is the first one that’s literally made me sick to my stomach and have to walk away from the computer.
You likely won’t have an emotional reaction unless you have children. I lost it about halfway through at “wet footprints.”
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What Do I Expect?
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Warning: This is a rant of epic proportions. You have been warned.
Over on my good friend Martin’s site, Treasure Tables, he linked to a discussion article on 64 skills that players should have. Martin then further extended the theory by asking what skills your players have and doing an assessment their 64 most frequently used skills. Rather than crap on his site and stifle good discussion, I’m going to take a dump right here and pose the question:
Why the fuck would I? more…
Category: Gaming, Rant
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“Stop Driving Like Asshats”
Monday, April 17th, 2006
Am I the only one completely annoyed by the pedantic “Start Seeing Motorcycles” bumper stickers that have been around for a few years? They’re, well…idiotic. What, like I’m trying to hit that motorcycle flying past me at 80 mph? No, and that’s the real rub of “seeing motorcycles;” cycle riders drive like asshats.
I’ll tell you what, when Mr. Cool — without a helmet of course — stops tailgating me at 65 mph, ducking and weaving between traffic like he’s playing Frogger on heroine, and launches into the next lane accelerating like he’s got the rocket boosters from the space shuttle, THEN I’ll “start seeing motorcycles.” Until then, if the fuckers want to ride like assholes and feel the “freedom of the road,” then they’d better be willing to pony up when they skid on their face for half a mile, leaving a red mist and becoming nothing more than a speed bump on the highway of life.
Category: Pop Culture, Rant
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