I caught this list of 50 nerdy pick-up lines over at Bloggasm and just couldn’t resist posting my own, so I scoured the web for the best that I could find. I decided to stick with 20 because, let’s face it, there’s only so many ways you can joke about hard drives before it gets [...]
I went to the pump the other day to fill up my 12-gallon tank and walked away with a receipt for over $35. Was I outraged and appalled? Nah. Like most people, I’ve come to regard escalating gas prices as sort of a running gag. We keep whining about it going up when that’s the [...]
I generally stick to World of Warcraft for my RPG needs, but I couldn’t help but try out Kingdom of Loathing when a coworker linked me to it. It is, in a word, absurd. That’s not to say it’s a bad game, but the setting and gameplay are just plain silly. In a normal RPG, [...]
I normally get a steady stream of joke emails from my mother (whether or not I want to ). Most of them are silly in a not-really-worth-repeating sort of way. A recent one caught my eye, however. It was entitled, “Never Choke in a Southern Restaurant.” I wish I could say I didn’t know people [...]
The name of the Desktop Tower Defense game says it all. Little enemy dots will try to cross the screen to safety. To stop them, you have to build different kinds of towers. You’ve got slow, long-range missile towers, rapid-fire towers, towers that slow enemy movement, and so on. You can’t really win the Desktop [...]
You’ve got to be a veteran of classic console gaming like me to remember Lemmings. It’s kind of a puzzle game. You’ve got a steady stream of drone-like little creatures that must be led from one part of an obstacle course to another. To get there, you can give one or more of the lemmings [...]
People come up with some weird flash games. More than a few of them are addictive, too. Double Wires is both. The objective of the game is to keep your ragdoll character from falling as he moves forward by flinging two elastic tethers to grapple and swing on various two-dimensional shapes. Yes, it’s pretty strange, [...]
Computers make our lives easier. No other medium allows us to communicate or manage information more effectively. They’re like genies, putting the world at our fingertips with a minimum of hassle. What a great age we live in to have such a wonderfully convenient tool at our disposal. Yeah, right. If you believe any of [...]
I just discovered the Chewbacca blog yesterday and man was I impressed. Who would have ever thought that a wookiee could be so eloquent? I guess they must have a good educational system on Endor, because Chewbacca definitely comes off as much more well-spoken than most Kashyyyk-born wookiees. Seriously, the ewok who taught him to [...]
Sure, it sounds like a pretty dull concept. Here’s a car game where you don’t race, don’t do drive-bys or getaways, and don’t even have a very cool-looking car. Instead, you get to park. That’s pretty much it. Four levels of excitement and adventure as you… attempt to neatly park your car without hitting any [...]