Dragon Age 2 Review

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There’s a lot to be said about Dragon Age 2, good and bad. I hate to say it, but the too often used idiom “mixed bag” really does apply here.

Despite some of the conclusions I had probably drawn from some of the preview material and trailers, the combat had changed very little in the end. It’s generally paced faster, while still retaining all the tactics options from Dragon Age: Origins that I need. The biggest missing thing is the tactical/bird-eye view, but who uses that, I mean really. The only time I used it in Origins was at the very beginning just to see how it looked, chuckled at the novelty of it, and zoomed right back in. The farthest zoom you have in Dragon Age 2 is quite far enough for me to see everything I need to see during combat. Continue reading →

Batman: Arkham City Review

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So, as the story goes, Arkham City takes place 12 months or so after the first game, Arkham Asylum. Somehow Quincy Sharp, the former warden of Arkham Asylum has successfully managed to run for mayor, and convinced all of Gotham that it would be a great idea to wall off a chunk of the city and turn that chunk into a big-ass prison. Sounds logical? Not especially, and the start of the game does a very poor job at explaining what exactly has happened between the two games. I hear that there’s some sort of comic out there that shines some light in to this, but fuck this cross-media bullshit.
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Cleaning up the site, 2012 edition

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Oh hi. So, I’ve been cleaning up the site quite a bit lately. Deleted a bunch of unused tags, streamlined the categories, fixed dead links by either removing or updating them, updated the blogroll, updated the plugins, reconfigured the sitemap stuff… So you know, general maintenance really.

I also rewrote a large part of the main music page, and added a few pictures in there to spice it up a little. I think it makes more sense now. Also, remember when I used wayback machine to hunt down some release dates for some of my old songs and ended up editing the WordPress posting dates to set up blog posts in the past? Yeah, that was a dumb idea if there ever was one, so I deleted those 3 posts. And I also rewrote the About page.
And I changed the theme from the old barely working Green Goblin to WordPress’ own Twenty Eleven. Yes yes, I know, I’m a year late. It will be interesting to see what kind of theme the Twenty Twelve will be, maybe I’ll use that if it’s any good.

I was also considering getting a new domain name. I don’t really know why for sure, I’m sure I can come up with a good excuse. Beerlake is kind of tiring. Looking back, that was kind of dumb name to pick for a domain, right? Don’t really know what would be a good new domain though, and I don’t even want to think of all the dead links that would result in killing the image dump that resides in here. So I guess I’m stuck with it, for now at least.

Now, you may ask yourself, why is he doing all this, he never even updates this stupid site. That’s a good question. Maybe I will update more often. Guess you just have to tune in to find out. Mysterious!

The instant noodle diaries part 4

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I’m pleased to say that partly due to an overwhelming fan response, and partly because I just happened to find some new flavours of noodles, the diaries shall continue.

stew beef=okay!

I was a little skeptical at the beginning, the smell of the stew beef flavour seemed like it might be a bit too much, but it mellowed out in the end and ended up being pretty good.

The instant noodle diaries part 3

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To my own surprise, vegetable flavoured noodles weren’t bad at all. I’m such a racist for thinking they would such without even giving them the chance (to suck). So…

vegetable=okay!

I’m sad to have to tell you this, but this post may mark the end of the instant noodle diaries, as I have now ran out of new flavours to test, of my usual noodle brand at least. I may have to start thinking outside the box on the next one, or just see if shopping elsewhere might do the trick.

Last broken thing fixed after the hosting move

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Totally not worth a post really, but I also need to test if the twitter plugin works, as well. So, look at me posting. And hopefully look at me tweeting at the same time?!

I guess I could write something else as well.

Like, something important…?

I don’t know man, I just need to test this shit out. Technically it should work, since I’m using the same settings as before, but better know for sure, right?