Archive for September, 2008

Endgame content? What endgame content?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I wouldn’t really describe myself as a hardcore gamer. On the other hand, I wouldn’t describe myself as a casual gamer. Far from it. But my playtime is so fractured that I’ve never seen the “endgame” of any online game, despite an entire career’s worth of wasted time gaming. The closest I’ve been is to […]

But I still wonder…

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

tekHedd: our fiddle player has been away for two weeks, so it’s just paul and me and the absentee banjo player. tekHedd: so I’m wondering. Tsigeyusv: you are still wondering? tekHedd: Would Obama make a good president? Tsigeyusv: well, I don’t think we have to ponder that too much. tekHedd: no, because McCain is so […]

The (Forever) Unbalanced Budget

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

I’ve been sporadically following some of the (ridiculous) US presidential campaign, with the help of sites like the indispensable factcheck.org. It seems to me that McCain and the Republicans are freely telling lies outright, while Obama and the Democrats are just avoiding talking about things they’d rather not lie about. Neither approach is particularly reassuring, […]