Okay, so, I’ve been working really hard on the apartment all weekend. Yesterday I got up to go to work at 4:30 am, came home at 11, and worked on the apartment until 4 pm. Today I got off work at 3:30 pm and spent six hours wiring and hanging a ceiling fan. It’s been rough, folks. I’m ready to spit some hot fire.

I’m not a negative person. All my posts thus far have been about things I like (except when I wrote about Matt Casamadingdong, but I LIKE to call him a douche so I’m still putting that into column “A”), but tonight I’m going to write about the worst game I’ve ever played.

Space Giraffe, for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade, is like being punished for doing the worst thing imaginable. Like, I imagine if I got drunk and ran a forklift over some nuns and schoolchildren, the cops would taser me, drag me into an alley, and plop me in front of Space Giraffe. I imagine Hell is really just an endless fiery room filled with gorgeous, giant LCD screens with Xbox 360s hooked up to them, that ONLY PLAY SPACE GIRAFFE. So in a way, playing Space Giraffe is a religious experience.

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Well, we made it before midnight so we still got the podcast uploaded on Friday! Woo! Apologies for the late upload, we’ve been working really hard on the apartment, with the painting and the wiring of new lights and what have you. We’ll be better prepared in the future, for realsies.

Anyway, here’s PK Podcast! Episode 2! Nothing super serious, just us talkin’ about RPGs. Give it a listen, and we hope you enjoy it. If you have any feedback, leave it in the comments, or shoot me an email.

 

 PK Podcast! Episode 2 - 02-05-10 [23:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

[ Note from Christina : Apologies for rambling so much!! Happens sometimes when we go out to dinner... I'm of legal age to drink, don't worry. As always I appreciate any/all feedback from the technical side of things, I know our audio quality's not the greatest (we're using a Rock Band USB mic and Audacity to do this), so if you've got any suggestions for ways to improve it, I'm all ears. Also, we're using a new media player plugin, so it should be in working order. Let me know if anything seems amiss. As always, thanks for listening/reading! ]

I’ve known Gavin Verhey for a few years now from various message boards. We’ve talked a lot, even played games online together a couple times. I’ve always thought he was a pretty cool guy, but I learned a couple of days ago that he’s even more awesome than I had thought. Gavin, you see, is a professional gamer.

Gavin plays in professional tournaments for the game Magic: The Gathering. Magic, for those of you who have lived under a rock for the past 17 years, is a collectible card game (CCG) where players construct decks of cards with various abilities, and compete to deplete the other’s life points. It sounds much simpler than it actually is, with an infinite amount of ways to customize your deck and formulate strategies. The game is popular worldwide, with a thriving pro circuit and tournaments held all over the world.

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Lunar: The Silver Star, Silver Star Story, Silver Star Story Complete, Lunar Legend, and now, Silver Star Harmony…

As you can probably guess from that list, the first game in the Lunar saga has a bit of a convoluted history, with more remakes and rereleases than you can shake a stick at. There’s alot of argument among fans about which version is the best, and non-veterans of the series generally have no clue where to begin as a result. Despite all this, Lunar’s popularity these days is still quite a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps it is even because of that thriving fanbase that we’re about to get yet another installment in the series: Lunar: Silver Star Harmony. (more…)

So I completely forgot, but two days ago was my blog’s one month anniversary. Woo! I’m not going to celebrate every thirty days but I’m pretty stoked to have passed this first milestone.

Thanks for sticking around for this first month. Believe me, I’m just getting started!