So I beat the first play through of Borderlands last night, and since i don't want to spoil anything, I'll just say my reaction was "uhhhhh....yeah."

Luckily I was informed by a few people, including SgtSlappy, that the second time through is a bit more fun and challenging.

Honestly, all I needed was someone to say "Hey, you get even bigger guns, and they're ORANGE!" and I'm all in for some replay value. Yet again, Borderlands proves it's addictive,...

2010! My first blog post of the new decade!

So what's on my mind right now? Well, it seems Lake Superior University has updated their "banished words list" for 2009, but I want to throw my hat into the ring on this one as well.

"Really? REALLY?!" was what I heard Kelly Ripa say over my work break while suffering through the cess pool that is daytime television. Thus rang the death knell for this overused phrase. If something is used on "Live...

I love twisting a quote into something hilarious, especially if I can tie in a good picture as a response. This is a prime example:

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/sho...95&postcount=5

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I'd like to talk about an issue that affects all of us as gamers. It's about the positive and negative affects of gaming history on our hobby.

We live in a world still indelibly marked by past games and past technology. The constraints of the past are hampering us today.

Let me give you an example: Wolfenstein / Doom.
Doom is a great example of how technological constraints determined what kind of game was made.

It wasn't technologically possible to create...

I miss Everquest (1). I really do.

Actually this is quite ironic, because I am sure that I was addicted at one time - and I mean this in a bad way. I spent far too much time in a game that was a grindfest and basically punished you for playing it. My opinion of the game actually is still pretty bad.

Losing experience when dying, up to the point of losing weeks of experience, maybe levelling down and then having to get your corpse with all your stuff on it, yourself...