Richard's Online Journal
Valentine For One
Happy Aching Solitude Awareness Day 2010, everybody!
On the other hand, if you’re in the mood for some vicarious romance, check out this quick blog post I just did on the romances in the wonderful Mass Effect 2. It’s over on a long-ignored, unmourned site that I’m planning on doing more stuff with, and you’ll find it right here. Go Be Entertained by Words. Words About Games.
Paging Jacob Marley
A very Merry Christmas to all the readers who help pay my mortgage, and to Jacob Marley, who really deserved his own ghostly visitations too...
Please, all rise for the traditional Christmas hymn…
Right, I’m heading back to my window to admire the first white Christmas in years. There’s snow everywhere, crisp and even, just as ordered. I can’t remember the last time it was like this, and not sure if we’ll get to enjoy it again any time soon, so I’m temporarily taking off my cynical hat to go say: “Oooh, pretty.”
See you next year, folks.
Graze vs. SHOVEL!
OFFICE WORKERS! Have you fallen victim to this Graze ‘healthy eating’ madness? Do little boxes of NUTS and BERRIES and other SQUIRREL FOODS keep landing on your co-workers’ DESKS? And do you have to put up with those WUSSES trying to make you join in with their NIBBLES? Don’t their svelte, sexy bodies make you SICK?
Well, seethe no more! SHOVEL! is here to KICK YOUR FACE.
SHOVEL! For MEN. Also WOMEN. And CHILDREN. But NOBODY ELSE!
Every SHOVEL! box comes with FIVE TIMES YOUR DAILY RECOMMENDED CALORIES, and that’s just the WRAPPING! For only £20 per day, we’ll deliver MORE SUGAR THAN YOU CAN HANDLE, right to your office desk or the hospital bed where you are being treated for AWESOME. Doctors round the world agree, NOBODY needs this much food. SHOVEL! is a SOCIAL OBSCENITY. But you WANT it, don’t you? YES YOU DO.
Think for yourself. OBEY THESE WORDS. Choose SHOVEL!
(* Disclaimer: Gluttony is a sin. Every purchase of SHOVEL! comes with a free eternity of burning hellfire at the hands of a devil who still won’t believe how quickly you arrived. Also contains gluten)
Traditional Christmas Dinner
If your tradition is 'ordering off-menu at the office Christmas celebration', anyway. Mmm, festive burger and chips. Marley would be proud.
Popping Caps In Seattle
Just back from a really fun visit to see PopCap Games in Seattle. I’ve said before that they’re easily my favourite casual games publisher, and as hoped, they’re a fine group of folks — letting a bunch of journalists tramp around the building with a camera, showing off some new stuff like EMBARGOED and CENSORED, and handing out freebies.
Also, there were zombies.
There’s a zombie on the pull. We don’t like zombies on the- oh, looks like I stand corrected. Hurm. Undead get all the luck.
Click here to see some more shots of the event, along with some random shots of Seattle. Alternatively, if you just want to feel envious, click here…