Posted on March 17, 2015
Life Bytes: Baldur’s Gate
I’ve never liked Baldur’s Gate. There, I said it. Grab the torches and the pitchforks, and it’s pistols at high noon or whatever. I don’t care. There are many reasons why two of Bioware’s most famousest games never clicked with me, but I’ll go into most of those whenever I get to the late ’90s section of Life Bytes. For now, let’s just say that I’ve been trying to like these damn games for well over a decade, and it just ain’t happenin’, kids.
First, let’s just get the 800 pound dragon out of the way up front: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I hate it. But I also love it. But I hate it, too. I’ve always loved D&D, ever since I got my first red box starter kit. I created tons of characters with detailed back stories, complex relationships and interesting motivations. I designed intricate campaigns with branching plot lines and living NPCs. And then I didn’t do anything with any of it. Read More
Posted on February 10, 2015
Valentines For Married People
Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day card for that special someone in your life? Then you’ve come to the wrong place! These are for married people.
In what seems to be turning into an annual tradition here, I’ve worked up a stunning new batch of the best expressions of marital love you’ll ever see, just in time for Valentine’s Day! I suggest you send one or all of them to your spouse. Remember: it takes little embers to keep stoked the flames of passion. Or something. Whatever.
I went the meme route this year, as opposed to the someecards direction I took last year. Why? Because variety is the spice of life, and I care enough about my readers to use the very best mostly adequate free software that requires minimal effort on my part. It’s just one of the many ways I work tirelessly to bring you a superior blogging experience.
YOU ARE WELCOME. Read More
Posted on October 22, 2014
Thoughts And Prayers Aren’t Fixing Anything, America
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: After not updating this post to reflect multiple shootings since the one in Charleston (and there have been far too many) because I just couldn’t do it anymore, I’m forced to come back to this post once again due to the latest – and deadliest – mass shooting in America’s history: Las Vegas, Nevada, during a Country Music Festival. When I woke up this morning and heard the news, I started trying to figure out if, with over 50 confirmed dead, this was, in fact, the deadliest mass shooting in the history of our country. The fact that it wasn’t immediately obvious says, I think, a lot. Too much.
ANOTHER DAMN UPDATE: Another day, another shooting in America. This time, it comes just four days after I wrote about guns again. It happened at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine people dead and the gunman got away. And again, it’s being identified by the city it happened in because of course is it. And it’s just “a shooting” and not terrorism because the shooter is white. And he’s a shooter, not a thug. Also because he’s white. And he attacked the congregation of a black church with “Confederate States of America” on his car, but it’s not about race. Because he’s white. In America.
UPDATE: Just two days after I wrote this – two fucking days – and we have another shooting here in America, this time at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, in Marysville, Washington (about an hour north of Seattle). This marks the 87th school shooting since Sandy Hook happened, way back in the distant past of barely two years ago. Go ahead and tell me again about how we don’t need to make it harder to buy firearms because you’re afraid of Obama or don’t feel like filling out some damn paperwork. Go on. I fucking dare you.
This is not about the shooting in Canada. Well it is, but only as a springboard for something else. Something that won’t make me any friends at all here in Pew Pew, Texas… Read More
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