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Call me Darth Whitefeather

Not having done much gaming in the last few days I decided to spend part of the weekend working my way up to level 50 in preparation for the release of Bioware’s new Legacy System in Star Wars the Old Republic (SWTOR).   I am sure that the devs at Bioware delayed the release of the…

Get in touch with your inner droid!!!

O.K. I will admit it…for a few minutes Bioware actually had me going.  Then I got down to the part where the two robots flirt.  I thought back on the dialogue options like “unbridled boot licking”. Then I remembered what day it was. April first. Still, I have thought all along the ability to play…

Brothers from another mother.

In between breaks from working on show 106, two of the games I have been playing are Silent Hunter 3 and 4.  Yes, I know, they are both Ubisoft games and let me tell you I felt so dirty about playing them at first.  Until I discovered all the people over at the Subsims forum. …

I think I won

It was not that long ago I had dinner with three friends, including one I will  call W. Monger.  During dinner, W. Monger decides to share his font of wisdom with us all and thereby solve all the world’s problems.  It seems that Mr. Monger, never actually have doned a battle dress uniform himself, felt…

Only in Chicago

Only in Chicago has “the boss” meant Richard J. Daley instead of Bruce Springsteen Only in Illinois do we have two, count ‘em two, consecutive governors in the slammer Chicago is the city where the motto has ever been “vote early and often”. It has been a city where you can’t keep an active voter…

No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 105 is live!

Welcome to Show 105, This week we sit down to talk about Chris Dodson from the 2Lazy2beOtaku podcast about gaming and his new book. The subjects this week are as follows:   “Prey for Vengeance” by Chris Dodson Everquest I and II – chimps, nerd rage, and pariahs Dungeons and Dragons Online – insipid names,…