Category: Toys, Games and Fun

Fly The Copter (No thanks at all to Jonah Goldberg for highlighting this dang thing and getting me to waste my time.)

What happens when you allow thousands of anonymous people to live out their own fantasies in an interactive city? Scams, protection rackets and sex traders, natch. And now a man documenting the downside of the Sims Online cybercity has been thrown out…most likely because alerting the outside world to the goings on of Sims Online…

This Lord of the Rings Trivia Challenge is hard! I only scored 15 out of 23.

What kind of Jedi are you? – Be Warned, there is a vulgarity in the quiz. (WHY do people do that?) Sadly, I am not a Jedi. I am Han Solo. Actually, I had to fiddle with the results to get that one; I’d originally chosen all the horny answers that related to Padme but…

Boy, reading this can take longer than the three TPBs of Dork Tower I bought at Wizard World! The Canonical List of Famous Last Words of role-playing characters offers such gems as “OK, I moon the Balrog” and “I take my missing leg that he just ripped off, and hit him on the head.” Thanks…

Beware, some of this is offensive in both political stance and language. (The poster’s comments about “a perfectly good fatality” in the Bush vs. Gore video game are also treading dangerously close to a Secret Service visit.) It’s also gosh-durned funny. Photoshopped Video Game History.

It’s dead in here, so even though I’m woozy I’ll post something for you. ICv2 News – Axis & Allies Gets Major Revision I’ve looked into buying this game before and the gigantic box with the $50 price tag was too intimidating. Perhaps this new streamlined package will be more appealing.

I spent much of the weekend, aside from doing chores and working on fulfilling orders for Job Wanted, playing just the demo versions of some truly awesome games.

As I commented last week, bad financial times abound at more companies than just CrossGen. Toystore chain F.A.O. Schwartz is having liquidity problems and Hasbro has closed four more game stores making for a total of 18 this year. The economy is rebounding and consumer purchases are up, but so far things aren’t rosy for…

I have a few O.E.M. (Original Equipment Manufacturer) products. I wouldn’t even own Microsoft Office ’97 if not for my best friend working for a software company where he could buy an OEM copy and give it to me for Christmas. And I recently bought Norton System Utilities from Webworm and am quite satisfied at…