Undeniably fun.
For the first time in several years, last night saw Paul and me rolling dice as we took part in a session of The One Ring. With James as our DM, his lovely partner (and my boss) Fiona as a dwarf scholar, Matt as a woodman spider hunter, Paul as a beorning warden and me as a hobbit explorer – the group set off from Lake Town, five years after the events of The Hobbit.
Not as acceptable as you may think...
Once upon a time, I was a Japanophile or more specifically – I was really into Japanese videogames, manga, anime and food plus a few other cultural elements. This lasted between 2000-2004, then I stopped being a Japanophile and this was mainly due to realising how so much of the things I liked about certain aspects of Japanese culture were recycled and kept being recycled all the time. I’m assuming Charlie Brooker hasn’t reached that point yet if his resent travel log for the Guardian is anything to go by.
Wait to you hear this...
This is probably not going to be my last post on The Darkness II and I really need to draw your attention to a classy smidget of exposition that’s lurking in the game. It also perhaps raises the bar for all codexes that you find in games.
Not doing as well as it could in Japan - the PS Vita.
So far this year, both Sony have denied that they’re releasing the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft the same with the “XBox 720″/”Codename Ten”/Durango. And while this could be a subversive tactic to leave the consoles as a surprise, I suspect both companies want to see what happens with uptake on Nintendo’s Wii U, which looks set be released some point in the latter half of the year.
How to disable infinity scroll.
Earlier this week, I joined the chorus of people who were more than unimpressed by WordPress.com’s sudden addition of infinity scroll to all Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven blogs hosted with them. What was/is “infinity scroll”, well if I had it enabled on this blog and you were on the main page, you could keep scrolling down and it wouldn’t end until you reached the first post on my blog.
It also had the annoying effect of negating the footer widget area. Continue reading
