http://www.legionrants.com/ Confessions of an attention-deficit gamer ... en-us Copyright 2007 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:25:05 -0800 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:28:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.01 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I recently built a new main system.  It is really nice with a quad-core processor, 4GB of RAM and two top-of-the-line video cards to enable me to drive three monitors.  After reading an article on one of my favorite blogs,... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2007/12/64bit-windows-n.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2007/12/64bit-windows-n.php Computers Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:25:05 -0800 I was reading an article this morning about people who work at Disneyland, but don't make enough money to afford a decent place to live. It said that some of them live in two bedroom apartments that cost in the... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2007/03/see-this-this-i.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2007/03/see-this-this-i.php General Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:14:10 -0800 So yeah, I'm a geek. I pre-ordered the Burning Crusade expansion and then attended the midnight event so I could be one of the first to walk around in the new areas post-launch. (Which, if my gaming habit were completely... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2007/01/world-of-warcra.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2007/01/world-of-warcra.php Gaming Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:30:00 -0800 I know the vast Internet has been waiting patiently for me to put up my E3 pictures ...... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/05/e3-pics-are-fin.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/05/e3-pics-are-fin.php Gaming Mon, 22 May 2006 09:05:56 -0800 I set out this morning, steeling myself for the dangers that lay ahead. Despite the stories, I knew so little of what truly lay before me ...... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/05/sonys-hubris.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/05/sonys-hubris.php Gaming Thu, 11 May 2006 07:44:34 -0800 So this is it ... time to head to Los Angeles and see what the scions of the gaming world have come up with to entrance, amaze and entertain us this year. Read on for today's travelogue ...... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/05/e3-coverage-day.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/05/e3-coverage-day.php Gaming Tue, 09 May 2006 22:53:15 -0800 On the ninth of May, I'll be travelling to Los Angeles to attend the Electronics Entertainment Exposition, more commonly known as E3. It is the annual show where the video game industry struts its stuff ... but only to game... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/e3-coverage-her.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/e3-coverage-her.php Gaming Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:04:58 -0800 Best description of the male/female divide evar!... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/post-7.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/post-7.php Links Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:20:25 -0800 So rather than pick up Rumble Roses XX, I picked up Tomb Raider: Legend. Although it stars equally curvaceous feminine heroes, it has a lot more game to it. Punish long ago extoled the virtues of Tomb Raider to me,... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/tomb-raider-leg.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/tomb-raider-leg.php Gaming Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:07:50 -0800 I saw the ad for Rumble Roses XX on my Xbox360 guide screen. It advertises that the game "features all female wrestling". Now, anytime a game features all-female anything ... its bound to be something that would put out any... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/enough-to-make.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/enough-to-make.php Gaming Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:38:48 -0800 That is the headline I would have put over this article. And if I could have gotten away with it, it would have started with "Dumbass". The man picks up a 40mm shell ... which, by the way, is the... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/teacher-blows-o.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/04/teacher-blows-o.php General Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:04:12 -0800 So I'm reading about the new model for Lara Croft, Karima Adebibe, and all the training they're putting her through. And the only thing I can think of is, "for what?" I mean, she's the new model. She's not going... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/new-lara-croft.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/new-lara-croft.php Gaming Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:03:01 -0800 Ever since I went against the entire vastness of geekdom, in that I didn't like Firefly, I have been second-guessing my instincts when it comes to these things. Could it be that I was wrong about Star Trek: Enterprise? Well,... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/enterprise.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/enterprise.php Movies Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:14:42 -0800 Yes, I know I've been lax at updating. I haven't allowed an entire month to go by without updating in a long, long time. Let's hope this is the last time. Last month was pretty busy though ... and, being... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/furniture.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/furniture.php General Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:10:44 -0800 Sometimes I wish I was still a physicist so I could study things like the multidimensionality of time... http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/post-6.php http://www.legionrants.com/archives/2006/02/post-6.php Links Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:49:21 -0800