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Category Archives: Video Games

‘Ware the anger of video game widows

22-Apr-09

Dee made a post about a woman named Jillian R, a “Phoenix Early Childhood Parenting Examiner” (citizen reporter, in other words) who posted what amounted to a rant on video game players and how they ignore families.  My first impression was this is a woman who has dealt with being a “video game widow” in […]

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1UP already stole my headline

21-Apr-09

Rock out with your block out was pretty obvious, to be fair.  I can’t make up my mind how I feel about this.  On the one hand, the concept I find to be pretty stupid, but then I don’t have kids.  But I’d kill to have two or three of the songs on that brief […]

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Blame the parents-pt. 1

20-Apr-09

Women like this make my blood boil. It’s not even so much that the only good thing she said video games can do is improve hand/eye coordination. It’s not even that she said that instead of playing video games, people should try to be better spouses/parents. It isn’t even that she “GUARAN-DANG-TEEs” in all caps […]

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Domo arigato, Harmonix

17-Apr-09

Harmonix announces that next week’s downloadable content for Rock Band will include a 7-song pack of REO Speedwagon and Styx. Jesus, if they’d only mix in some Van Halen, I could recreate the Texxas Jam in my living room.  I’m regressing back to my youth in the best possible way. Update: The Texxas Living Room […]

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Speaking of Zombies…

13-Apr-09

(See the comments on Mike’s post.) The group Metric released a new song, Help I’m Alive, just prior to the release of their new album. I liked the song enough to check out and then buy the album once it was released. My view of the song was slightly changed- perhaps for the better, even- […]

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