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| A picture is worth a thousand words -- 2008-04-24
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No article today, instead I've been working on my other site, Clean Dungeon. Over there, I've posted a lot of articles on gladiator equipment, so I added links to that site here under the gladiator articles. I also updated links on the article pertaining to the rapier. All of these articles are available in the Game Research section of the site.
-- sector24 | It's the last movement of a sonata -- 2008-04-21
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Today's article is a review of Rondo of Swords for the Nintendo DS. I don't normally review games before I finish them, but none of the major sites have posted one so I thought I'd put it up. It's refreshingly different, and I like that strategy outweighs character levels and equipment. I can't claim it will be everyone's cup of tea though.
-- sector24 | Oh how I love tax time -- 2008-04-14
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As a contractor, taxes are usually quite hellish for me. Two years ago, I paid 52% of my income in taxes. One year ago, I paid 44%. This year, I paid an extremely reasonable 33% of my income in taxes. However, I am not eligible for Bush's government rebate. I guess there will be no plasma screen TV in my near future. Who are we kidding I would have invested the money anyway, defeating the purpose of the rebate, which is the real reason I didn't get one. ;)
I was also able to finish Riviera: The Promised Land. It was another game I bought on the recommendation of some arrogant kid from the internet. Fortunately this game turned out to be good for the most part. Read the review here. -- sector24 | Which empire did the sinning again? -- 2008-04-01
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I finally got a chance to play Sins of a Solar Empire last week. The game has been sitting on my hard drive uninstalled because of a ridiculous installation error that no one seemed to be able to figure out until just recently. Now that I've finally been able to play I can say that even though it's not really as good as any of the games it is based on, it's still really fun. I find myself wanting to play it rather than watching reruns of CSI and Law & Order, so that's always a good sign.
-- sector24 | Weapons on a stick -- 2008-03-30
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Today's special weekend update is a game research article on Identifying Polearms. I actually wrote this article 6 months ago, but I didn't have pictures to go with the different polearms, and trying to explain them through words is almost impossible. Even with pictures, there is so little consensus and so many variants on the main polearm designs, truly identifying actual specimens is a lifelong endeavor.
This article links to Od's sister site, Clean Dungeon. It's one of my side projects (like I don't have enough of those) meant to be a weapons and armor encyclopedia. I honestly don't have time to work on it as much as I'd like. The real problem is that I can't draw the pictures as fast as I can write the articles. My inbox has over 100 clean dungeon articles with no pictures, but often the pictures are more useful than several paragraphs of text. Oh well, such is life. One day artists will fall from the heavens and I'll snag one, but until then the site will just have to limp along with infrequent updates.
-- sector24 | Don't listen to arrogant teenagers -- 2008-03-27
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One of the games I'm looking forward to this spring is Rondo of Swords. I was browsing the forum to see if there was any additional info on the game and one of the posters was going on about how most SRPG players are morons and this game called Yggdra Union totally brought SRPGs to the next level. Somehow I missed this game when it came out, so I figured I should try it.
Well let me tell you, there's a reason that the Fire Emblem games are popular and Yggdra Union is not. Read the review to see for yourself.
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