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Cheap Fun Alert: WorldWorks Cardboard Models

Instead of fixing up your own house, it’s more fun to play around with cardboard miniatures. Cheaper, too! Today, John discovered WorldWorks Games, a company that sells PDF files you can print out on cardstock on a color printer and then assemble into 28-mm scale buildings and models.
This is a shot of a castle [...]

So we finally bought Neverwinter Nights 2

Unfortunately, NWN2 refuses to run on John’s PC, so I’ll have to upgrade his OS to XP. We also bought a copy of Fable, but it won’t run on either of our main PCs. I suspect Fable hates my nice sound card, so I’ll have to crack the case and yank out the board.
Grr! :-)
I’m [...]

You know you’ve been playing video games too much when…

…it starts affecting your movie watching.
We were watching Narnia the other night, and when the two girls were in the forest wringing their hands that Aslan was about to be killed, I said, “Y’see, she should take that all-powerful bow Father Christmas gave her and draw aggro away from Aslan. Then a whole train of [...]

LotR meets MST3K

If you've ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Lord of the Rings with Mystery Science Theater 3000 and let loose a bunch of gamers on it, here's your new webcomic addiction.

My KnightFight character underwent a sex change operation

I swear, it looks like some kind of fantasy high school yearbook photo:

Her bio, prior to the software upgrade that added female avatars:
“Sir” Celeste is actually a female knight in service to the god of Chivalry and Honor. Unfortunately, an evil sorceress tricked her into drinking a potion that turned her into the handsome, square-jawed [...]