Friday, April 1, 2011

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite post on this blog

Recently, I've gone back and played a bunch of the Mass Effect 2 DLC that I'd bought but never got around to. I'd forgotten how fun the game is and it's got me totally hyped up for Mass Effect 3. I love how this series carries through all of your decisions into the next game. Of course the downside is that I if I want to start a new character so that my Shepard doesn't look like Delonte West, I pretty much have to start from Mass Effect 1 so I can have all my decisions carry over to ME2. I refuse to not have Wrex live, since he's totally my Krogan BFF.

Homiez 4 Lyfe!

Maybe in the run up to ME3, I'll do a complete run-through from the beginning with a jerk female Shepard so I can see the differences from my nice guy male Shepard and have the whole story fresh in my mind when it's time to continue.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Burned Out On Comics

I'm a pretty big nerd. I love shared universes. That's one of the biggest reasons I get so sucked into stuff like Star Wars and especially superhero comics. I like that while I'm reading about Spider-Man fighting the Sinister Six, Captain America is out there stopping some recently uncovered Nazi superweapon while the X-Men are on a mission to rescue a mutant that just discovered his new powers. And if I want to find out what else is going on, I can go read about it. It makes the world seem alive and full. The problem I've had with comics lately is that I pretty much HAVE to read all of it in order to make sense of any of it.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Games You Should Own: Saints Row 2

I'm not as big a gamer as I used to be. I used to buy just about every big name game that came out and play them pretty much non-stop until I had them beat. Now I usually buy only a few games a year and they last me months, so there are plenty of games that just fall through the cracks that I completely miss. Every once in a while, I go back and buy one of those games if I hear enough good things about them. About a week and a half back, I bought Saints Row 2. It might be the best $20 I've ever spent on a video game.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Burning River Roller Girls Season 5, Bout 1

That's right everyone, it's roller derby time in Cleveland again! Last season ended with the Rolling Pin-Ups ending the three year championship reign of the Hellbombers. There's been a lot of skater turnover since then and I'm looking forward to a pretty exciting season, hopefully culminating in another Pin-Up championship! To start off Season 5 the Hellbombers are going head to head with the Cleveland Steamers in the first game while the Pin-Ups start their title defense against the Hard Knockers in the second game.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Well, that sucked

Some kind of hell-virus has hit my house pretty hard this week. I've been in bad shape but not anywhere near as bad as the wife. On the upside, the puppies have been super adorable and spending time on the couch with her.

That's all I really have today. Assuming I end up feeling better, I'll have bigger and better stuff to write about this weekend.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

More powerful than a locomotive

I grew up thinking that Superman was lame. I blame the Super Powers toys I had as a kid. I had a ton of these but I lost Superman's cape pretty early on and his figure just wasn't as cool without it. I ended up deciding that he was a guy pretending to be Superman and had Batman and Aquaman (for some reason Batman and Aquaman were total bff's in my childhood mind) beat him up most of the time.

Monday, March 7, 2011

How I learned to stop worrying and love the 2010-2011 Cleveland Cavaliers

LeBron James almost killed my love of basketball. Not only am I a huge Cavs fan but I pretty much love the whole NBA. I devour NBA news. I love trying to figure out what kind of trades can work under the salary cap. I'd happily watch the Timberwolves play the Pistons in a meaningless game in February. And LeBron James almost killed it.