For those who never played Summoner, don’t feel like you missed out on anything; the game was a par at best. While it might not have left a big mark on the PC gaming world, however, it did leave behind this hilarious machinima that has become a cult staple in the tabletop gaming community. [...]
I am not a puzzle person. I’m very analytical and I’ve always considered myself a smart person, but I’ve never been especially good at puzzles. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that it took me more than half an hour to solve the leap frog puzzle that my mother emailed to me [...]
“Oh no! You’ve sunk my battleship!” Okay, so the old commercials were pretty hokie, but the game itself has always been solid. It reminds me a bit of poker in that your odds of victory depend just as much on luck as they do on your ability to read your opponent. [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’ve never really enjoyed playing fighters in D&D. There just isn’t much to them. You hit the monster repeatedly until it stops moving. The most you ever get to see of tactics or decision-making is when you perform an occassional sunder or disarm, and then only if [...]
Have you ever had a friend who was determined to stay single? You know, the kind of person who wants to date for the rest of his or her natural life without ever settling down into a meaningful, long-term relationship? I’ve had a number of friends like this over the years. Some [...]
If you’ve been following the recent developments in the Family section of the site, you’ve probably been wondering what other new category I was planning on creating. Well, if the subject matter was any indication, the answer was probably pretty obvious; my relationship with my wife, from our early days as boyfriend and girlfriend [...]
Well, last weekend wasn’t your typical weekend in the W. household. Our ordinary D&D game had been cancelled, so my wife seized the opportunity to transport some furniture that she’d been meaning to move. This, quite naturally, left me home with our son for a sizable portion of the day. Now, like [...]
How much do I know about bass guitars? Not a thing. I once owned an acoustic. I tried to play it for a few weeks and thereafter left it to languish in my closet as hobby that was never meant to be. It has since passed on to my brother-in-law as [...]
Before I was a parent, I never agreed with the idea of spanking children. I wasn’t standing on soap boxes preaching about it or anything, but, when the subject arose, I was fond of arguing that there are better ways of disciplining children. “Punish them when necessary,” I would say, “but never physically.”
That [...]
Okay, so it turns out that my recent blog renovations aren’t complete after all. I started by changing the photo album from a static page into a new blog category for my wife. The immediate afterthought, of course, was, “Why not do it for the whole section?” After all, the subject matter [...]