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Red Dwarf Season 10: Episode 01

Ice Cream Jonsey October 29, 2012 No Comments

Here’s what I think of the British situation comedy Red Dwarf. Just so we can all calibrate ourselves. So you know where I came from. Ahem. I think it’s the…

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Roody Yogurt Reviews IF Competion ’12 Games! (Part Two)

Roody Yogurt October 24, 2012 No Comments

The Lift by Colin Capurso More so than any other type of game, weapon pedantry is really annoying in CYOA (“OH NOES YOU CHOSE THE KNIFE WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE…

interactive fiction

Roody Yogurt Reviews IF Competion ’12 Games! (Part One)

Roody Yogurt October 21, 2012 No Comments

Transit by Shaye Transit is a game from the perspective of someone separated from a friend at a foreign airport, with no means of communication. Looking over the prose again…

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Roody Yogurt’s Midwest Gaming Classic Thoughts

Roody Yogurt October 7, 2012 No Comments

I intend to use this thread to chronicle the cool things I see at the Midwest Gaming Classic each year. Here are my thoughts on this year: For some ten…

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Pinback’s Cool of the Day: BALLOONS

Pinback October 1, 2012 No Comments

Today a bunch of hot air balloons flew over our place! Like, close enough where the people in them were saying, not yelling, “Mornin'” and taking pictures of us while…

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Sitting Out A Meme

Ice Cream Jonsey September 29, 2012 2 Comments

Christ, you people sound like idiots. It’s been a while since I sat one out. I’m the first to click, usually. I don’t care. Pride has nothing to do with…

interactive fiction

The Status Whine

Roody Yogurt July 29, 2012 1 Comment

First off, apologies that I didn’t properly categorize my last IF-related post so it didn’t show up until now. That said, I have another annoyance to share with the IF…

baseball

Ichiro

Knuckles the Clown July 24, 2012 No Comments

Editor’s Note: On Monday, July 23rd, 2012, Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners was traded to the New York Yankees. I’ve been a Seattle Mariners fan since 1984. As been…

interactive fiction

Pause Pet Peeves

Roody Yogurt July 13, 2012 4 Comments

I just want to put something out there. More and more often, it seems, modern IF games use waiting-for-a-keypress pauses for dramatic effect. What many authors don’t realize, I think,…

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Who Framed Wreck-It Ralph? (As A Launching Point To An Arcade Post)

Ice Cream Jonsey June 8, 2012 No Comments

There is a movie in development called Wreck-It Ralph. I hope it makes a billion dollars and everyone involved had that moment where they go see it in a theater…

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