Pre-Turkey Day? Hell no! It is Gran Turismo 5 Day! Welcome to the Epic Drop where I’ll be your host as we wade through recent random topics in the news and pop culture. Of course we can’t forget about the great videos and the “Ladies of the Drop”. North and South Kor… ah screw that. [ Read More ]
Archive for November, 2010
The world will forever change, at least that’s what Blizzard wants you to think. With the imminent release of the Cataclysm expansion, Patch 4.03b is hitting the live servers today. I stopped playing World of Warcraft shortly after the birth of my daughter. StarCraft 2 provided me (still does) with the daily PvP fix that I needed during [ Read More ]
Categories: Gaming
I had to blow up my fantasy football team up in a big way.
After offering ridiculous trades (ie, my whole team for Adrian Peterson), and some reasonable ones I decided on a revolutionary course of action….I decided to make the first viable all white fantasy football team
Categories: Fantasy Football, Featured, Sports
Dear Vir and Rika, I’m a woman of child-bearing age, but I have no plans or desire to have children (and take several precautions against pregnancy). How do I deal with people constantly suggesting that I might be pregnant, or suggesting that it’s time for me to start having children? I’m tired of people judging [ Read More ]
Categories: Advice
I love my Playstation 3. Next to my PC, it’s my most used entertainment device. It does everything from DVD’s and Blu Rays, to browsing the web, or streaming the entire contents of my external hard drive straight to my giant LCD TV screen. Even the missus can work it, which goes a long way [ Read More ]
Categories: Game Reviews, Gaming, Playstation 3
Ever since my baby girl was born, I am on a tight schedule. If I want to play Starcraft 2 to satisfy my PvP urges -I still suck- it needs to be done when Abby is taking a nap. I want to play World of Warcraft? It has to be done on one of my [ Read More ]
Categories: Gaming
Hey Kaos Studios, the 1980s called; they want to know if you’ve heard that the Soviet Union has collapsed.
Categories: Game Commentary, Gaming
Microsoft’s newly released motion capture product Kinect has been accused of being racist by game review website Gamespot, where two of their dark skinned employees tested out the game and were unable to be completely recognized by the infrared camera. It doesn’t matter that unbiased and non-sensationalist Consumer Reports already debunked this claim, stating the [ Read More ]
Categories: Gaming
[TRIGGER WARNING! Don't want to be accused of being insensitive, now do we?] Last week at dinner, I was telling Arcturas and Rika about my first encounter with Vir. It was on a blog Arcturas wrote about a game in Japan that involved rape. In the comments, people were arguing about why there are so [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Commentary, Weekly Weigh-In
Holy Epic Drop Batman! Kind of a big day here in the States with all this election stuff going on so I figured it was a good time to sit on my ass and do some typing from the “once again red” state of Michigan. We may be stuck with two Democratic Senators but the [ Read More ]
Categories: Epic Drop
