Jennifer Beals. You know her, you love her from Flashdance. She played the part of the hard working construction woman who disobeys the feminist commandments. She dances to make some extra money on the side. Were she really the dancer in that movie, I’d like her a lot more. But no, she had a stand [...]
After reincarnating Jim the Wizard around 78 times sometime around the end of 2006, I got a really good game of Nethack going. Anticipating my first success, I recorded and notated a large set of screenshots.
I finished the game almost perfectly, but made one final fatal error. After a few minutes of frustration and intense [...]
During the 80 hours or so that I spent away, or ignoring, the woman-not-quite-yet-my-wife I learned some amazing things about Nethack.
Nethack is a game of luck and strategy. Yet, like the card game freecell, it is (almost) theoretically possible to beat every single game. Why? Because for every bad thing that can be done to [...]
Once upon a time, a long time ago, my dad bought a computer for home use. We had it for a long time. During this time I played a game called Rogue. I hated it because I couldn’t beat it.
About 20 years later, my friends started playing the next incarnation of the game called Nethack. [...]
If you hang out with me enough, like over the span of a couple of minutes, chances are I’ll quote a movie, or reference a movie, or interrupt you if I get tired of hearing you talk and create a chance to hear my own voice and suggest you go see a movie… and I [...]
Entertaining and uncomfortable. Low budget and fun.
The movie, not me.
As I have said previously, I love video games. I have been playing Dragonfable again after a couple of months off. Like most online games, this one has followed the trend of using a couple of different in-game currencies in order to facilitate the purchase of special items. Gold is the normal currency. Dragon coins [...]
I’m watching Galaxy Quest (on VHS, borrowed from the library, totally old school) for the third or fourth time with Janna, adding to the list of all of the movies I’ve ever watched (I’m up to 408 right now… wow, do I ever have too much free time) and am dubbing myself an Alan Rickman [...]