March 2011
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ldcsoundsystem:
The Pine Hill Haints - God, the...
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“When someone is honestly 55% right, that’s very good and there’s no use...”
– Czesław Miłosz’s epigraph for The Captive Mind, attributed to “an old Jew of Galicia”, quoted in the Dublin Review of Books
Battlepug! →
Do you like webcomics about freakish mutant (but adorable) dogs? And barbarians? Yes? Then you might like the new webcomic “Battlepug”. It’s just starting out, too, so you can read it from the beginning in a few minutes.
Word Cloud of Lovecraft's Work →
He only used the word “squamous” ONCE. I have a hard time believing that. It is knowledge not meant for human minds. (Via MetaFilter — page includes a link to download the complete works of HP Lovecraft for Nook and Kindle ereaders. Cthulhu loathes your parsimonious penny-pinching!)
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“It hasn’t even been 12 hours since the New York Times announced their...”
– by www.theatlantic.com
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Dragon Age II: Review Conclusion (Including HOW TO...
I’ve finished the game, beaten the final Big Bad(s), and wiped garishly orange Doritos dust from my beard. I’ve listened to dozens of hours inter-party banter, vanquished mobs by the thousands, made sweet man-love with Anders, failed to take the throne due to my inane insistence on being level-headed and humble, and memorized the layout of The Only Dungeon In The Game, right down to...
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Dragon Age II: A Review: It Still Sucks: Part Two
In this second installment of my Dragon Age II review, I’ll question my sexuality, analyze the game’s setting, and bemoan the inventory system. All in the unfair and unbalanced manner that I think is hilarious but which is really just sort of grating! Oh, and I should mention somewhere that I’m playing the game on an Xbox360 on normal difficulty as a
Eh, close enough.
First,...
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Dragon Age II: A Review: It Sucks: Introduction
Dragon Age II, the new single-player RPG from Bioware that continues the popular franchise last seen in 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins, is taking some major flak in the gaming press. No, wait, it totally isn’t. It’s getting average scores. A quick check of Metacritic shows not a single negative review of the game from “professional” game critics.
But the people who...
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Existential Flash Game Is Existential →
Flash. Insightful.
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“There was a puncturing quality to Barry’s zingers, darts that pop the overblown...”
– by oxfordamerican.org
Choire Sicha: The Last Photograph of Cat →
choire:
Cat believed that everything was a prison. He was born in the early mid-90s and grew up between Avenues C and D, in a nice vacant lot that was becoming a garden. His mother and brother, now both long since dead, would later move from that neighborhood to, as their circumstances improved, a…
