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Random Thoughts at the Mall

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Lonely Misanthrope (No Respond)

It’s cold. It’s wet. I can’t do my daily walk outside. Guess I’ll go walk around the mall for a while. Crowded in here. Guess everyone else had the same idea. Why are all of you just standing here? You’re in the middle of the walkway. Do you have to stand in a line across [...]

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Random Thoughts at the Red Light

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Lonely Misanthrope (No Respond)

It’s cold. It’s wet. It’s dark. It’s too early to be up. Why is this guy stopping so far back from the light? OK, now he’s got his right turn signal on. Why is he in the left lane if he wants to turn right? I could go around him, but there’s a median here. [...]

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On the Level

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

So Skyrim, the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series, is coming out next week. I’m looking forward to it, mainly because Morrowind, the third game in the series, is one of my favorite games of all time, as are Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, both also done by Bethesda. You may notice that [...]

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Review – Train Simulator 2012

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

Over the past week or so Steam has been running a sale on Halloween/horror themed games. One game, oddly, was Train Simulator 2012 with its Trains vs. Zombies DLC. (No, really.) I had seen Train Simulator before but had mostly been aware of it as that game that had about 150 pieces of DLC on [...]

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It’s Not Reality, It’s Just a Fantasy

Posted by tanstaafl under Postcards from Jumpspace, Random Thoughts (No Respond)

I took a swing through a bookstore the other day, the first one I had been through since the demise of my local Borders, and as usual went to check out the SF section. What I found, also as usual of late, was that most of it was actually fantasy. Mostly Urban Fantasy, actually; so [...]

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Let’s Play! – Precursors – Parts 9 & 10

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

Treece heads out into the jungle in search of the dangerous beast he must slay in order to prove his worth to the Keeper of the Nest, even though he can’t remember what she is called. Along the way he explains why he is using a useless weapon, slaughters a large number of jungle critters [...]

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Let’s Play – Precursors – Parts 7 & 8

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

Treece finally makes it to orbit, only to find that everyone there is shooting at him as well. After blowing up some raiders, he escorts a freighter to the middle of nowhere, finds that the Empire has a very low threshold for success, intercepts a few smugglers and finds that even cheating won’t let him [...]

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Echo Bazaar – Wandering the Paths of Wilmot’s End

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

So I’m wandering the paths of Wimot’s End. I know them well by now. I stop by the man with the bowler and tell him why I am here. I then spy on the faithful functionary to see what is in his paperwork. I then go back to the man with the bowler to promise [...]

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What’s the Difficulty, Kenneth?

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

Last night I was looking to kill a few hours and so went into my Steam games list looking for something light to pass the time. I really didn’t want to get into anything serious so I pulled up Majesty 2. Majesty 2 calls itself a “fantasy kingdom sim” but it really is more of [...]

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Review – Kerbal Space Program

Posted by tanstaafl under Random Thoughts, The Paleogamer (No Respond)

Ground control to Major Tom. Ground control to Major Tom. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. Lately I’ve been playing a bit of an independent game called Kerbal Space Program. The game is a spaceflight simulator in which you design a rocket, put it out on the pad, launch it and attempt [...]

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