One Mouthy Broad

It's been about two months now since I started playing this behemoth of a game and over a month since the last time I posted, and the more I play, the more I realize that I've only scratched the surface of the story.

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I actually finished the game over a week ago, but have been holding back on posting a review because I really needed to get a bit of distance from this game to collect my thoughts.

( Cut for some seriously major game spoilers. )

Okay. I'm not gonna lie. I love this game.

( Cut for some serious tl:dr, pic spam and very minor spoilers. )

At any rate, I'm not sure how many of you are playing SWTOR, but if you're not, you should *cough*siujerkjai*cough. And if you are, I'm always up for a group with either a toon I have, or rolling a new one (as making new characters hasn't gotten old yet), so let me know where you are and if you want to play. You can send me a tell anytime. I'm usually on Naveh on Sanctum of the Exalted, although as you can see I bounce around a lot.

Also, show me some screenshots. I love seeing other people's characters and what they look like.

This is one for the parents on my f-list. I just read an article about a new illustrated children's book for parents called Go the Fuck to Sleep.



It's goddamned genius, freaking hilarious and is flat-out the most honest thing I've ever read about the mental process a weary parent goes through with a wide awake kid at the end of the day. I wish there were more more honest books like this, instead of all of the cloying bullshit that makes you feel inadequate and guilty as a parent and earnest parenting books that are never actually useful. This was way more therapeutic for me as a parent than anything else I've ever read.

A sample verse:

The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest,
And the creatures who crawl, run and creep.
I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying.
Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.

Someone put the whole book up as a google document (here), so go read it before it gets taken down. And then go to Amazon and buy it for every person you know who is going to be a new parent.

So I finished Dragon Age 2 a few days ago, and am now on my second playthrough. All in all, I have to say that I had great fun, more fun actually than playing through the first game.

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For Christmas this year I got the flu (boo...) and an xbox 360(yay?).

For some reason my parents bought me both a console and a television as a family gift for all of us. I doubt that this will stop me from computer gaming though - as most of the games I want are sequels to saves I want to port into the next game (DA2 & ME3) or only offered exclusively on the PC (Civ V, Sims 3, The Witcher - which I keep meaning to play). I'm still really a PC gamer at heart, but it will be fun to play sitting on the couch with Tom or with friends who come over. And I'm sure my kids are going to love it.

But now I'm sort of at a loss since I don't know what good xbox games are. It came with Final Fantasy XIII which might be one of the lamest games of all time. I've enjoyed FF games in the past even though I tend to find them quite silly I still thought some of them were fun and imaginative, but this one is just lame. The characters are all extremely boring and all you do is run down path after path after path and fight one boring monster after another. I actually don't think I can play through the entire game.

We just bought Red Dead Redemption which is probably how we're going to spend New Years, but I thought I'd ask all you console gamers for recommendations.

Looks like Fallout: New Vegas is coming out soonish. Is anyone planning on buying it? I haven't heard much about it other than it's buggy as hell (what a shock!) so I'll probably wait until they release a patch and the price drops a bit and finish up other games in the meantime, but I'd love to hear from anyone who is going to or has already bought the game if they think it's worth it.

So I have a dreamwidth account. I'm not really sure if I'll actually use it much or not but if any of y'all are over there (and I think at least a handful of you are), lemmie know what your user name is. Mine is the same, minus one of the underscores between the name and number and can be found here:

http://prisoner-24601.dreamwidth.org/profile

Stickied at the top of my page here just in case anyone comes by looking for fanfiction. This is a work in progress and hopefully eventually I'll get around to adding all of the Knights of the Old Republic stuff, but for now it's still under construction.

( Dragon Age Fanfiction )

( Mass Effect Fanfiction )

( Knights of the Old Republic Fanfiction )

Taken from, pretty much... everyone. But it was too interesting not to try, and I'm damned curious what this is going to show.

Post the first lines from your last 20 stories. Do you see a pattern?

( This is probably interesting only to myself. )