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A Long, Strange Trip.

As mentioned here, my laptop has been angry with me for going on 4 months or so.  This cause me to retreat away from my usual comfort space of Team Fortress 2 and MMOs, and try to find ways to amuse myself.  I went two totally different directions – Facebook games, and diving back in the Xbox 360.  It’s come back now, in time for me to test SW:TOR and get back in to WoW for Cataclysm, but the damage has been done.

Facebook games are what they are.  I found a couple nice card based ones that occupy me well enough (Eredan and Urban Rivals, primarily, though Clash and Tyrant are in there too).  It’s the 360 part that’s really interesting to me….

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Speaking of Zombies…

(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- when someone on 101x’s Chillville made an offhand comment along the lines that she must be being chased by zombies. It makes one appreciate the song in a whole new way. ^^;

Maybe I’ve played too much Left 4 Dead.

Or maybe I haven’t played enough. Hmm.