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Jay Barnson on anti-videogame legislation:
What he said.
I’ll take Lara Croft over Janice Joplin any day. (And I don’t even LIKE Tomb Raider.)
Batman: Arkham City
A look back at one of my favorite games. The gameplay was stellar, but the underlying story was clumsy and oddly constructed.
Grand Theft Auto Retrospective
This series began as a cheap little 2D overhead game and grew into the most profitable entertainment product ever made. I have a love / hate relationship with the series.
Who Broke the In-Game Economy?
Why are RPG economies so bad? Why are shopkeepers so mercenary, why are the prices so crazy, and why do you always end up a gazillionaire by the end of the game? Can't we just have a sensible balanced economy?
How to Forum
Dear people of the internet: Please stop doing these horrible idiotic things when you talk to each other.
Skyrim Thieves Guild
The Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim is a vortex of disjointed plot-holes, contrivances, and nonsense.
Well I can see his point. Janice Joplin can scare even the manliest of men.
On the other hand, I really do treasure her recording of “Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
Doesn’t she spell it Janis? Or was that just a “70’s thing?” Stupid music radicals, don’t even know how to spell their own names… Oh well, misspelled names are better than what we got in the 90’s:
“The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.”
She doesn’t spell it any way at all anymore; she died of a heroin overdose before you were born.
I may be ignorant of no-talent musicians (for reasons I won’t go into now, I’m much more familiar with Motown during that era), but 1970 was well after I was born. Since I was thinking she was still active a few years ago, I probably had her mixed up with Joan Baez.
Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend,
Do it in the name of heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
But on the bloody morning after….
One tin soldier rides away.
And that’s memory, not Google. Just don’t ask me what I had for dinner last Wednesday…no idea.
I utterly, utterly loathed “One Tin Soldier.” Thanks for dredging up the memory. That wasn’t Joan Baez, though, but some abomination called “Coven.” (Baez might well have covered it; it’s stridently preachy enough to appeal to a certain kind of flake.)
What amuses me most of this post is that you didn’t even spell “Lara Croft” right. Shows just how much you care about it. xD
Spelling error fixed.
Shamus I come from the future to let you know that you do end up liking Tomb Raider! Spooky fade out.