Tag Archives: games

Pants-Wearing Killer: An Addition

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Kari Lucin

Apparently pants-wearing spree killer Anders Breivik actually played World of Warcraft as time off from planning his killing spree, not as a way to plan it. The news story got it wrong. In fact, most of the entities covering the … Continue reading →

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Flying Saucers, Stupid Games

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Kari Lucin

A few links to get you started on a very windy Easter: Did you know flying saucers were made by communists? Well, this one in Bulgaria was, and it’s pretty cool in there. (via BoingBoing) On behalf of your unborn … Continue reading →

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Where Do You Keep Your Socks in a Video Game?

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Kari Lucin

My friend walked into somebody’s house, saw two beer barrels, and opened them up. Inside one, he found a pair of pants. In the other, there was a paint brush. I believe the homeowner was probably keeping his beer in … Continue reading →

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It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This!

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Kari Lucin

So. I hear Link, of the very first Legend of Zelda game – you know, the best game ever – went to visit his mom recently. Apparently she’s a pretty strong-willed old lady, and just like the old man at … Continue reading →

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The Legend… of Awesome

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Kari Lucin

Kids today have literally thousands of video games to choose from, from puzzle games to farm simulations to role-playing games to first-person shooters, many with stunning graphics in three dimensions and weird equipment shaped like guitars, magic wands and light … Continue reading →

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Games, Laughs and Generational Speculation

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Kari Lucin

A few random pieces of amusement for you, many of them garnered from BoingBoing: Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving, a blog post about trying to move two dogs across the country, one of whom has approximately three brain … Continue reading →

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Superheroes

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Kari Lucin

I successfully kicked my World of Warcraft habit. WoW is a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games (MMORPGs) with orcs and trolls and elves and stuff. There’s a whole mythology behind it, but basically there are two sides played by gamers, … Continue reading →

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Dumped By My Digital Boyfriend

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Kari Lucin

Seth dumped me yesterday. I can’t say that it was a big surprise, either. He’d been warning me for three days that he was due to get his acceptance letter from graduate school and when he did, it was splitsville … Continue reading →

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The Top 10 Geek Anthems

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Kari Lucin

Victor Pineiro of Popten published this fun Top 10 Songs of Geekdom list and after listening to the fun version of the Legend of Zelda theme there, it got me thinking about how much I think about video game music. A … Continue reading →

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Cats for Gold, Free Rice and Writing Badly Well

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Kari Lucin

Some websites are esoteric and dedicated to a single bizarre purpose, which can be amusing but begs the question: How did they think of that? Here are a few of them. Disapproving Rabbits is dedicated to pictures of rabbits who … Continue reading →

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