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Standing outside my secret base in Pokemon Omega Ruby. I’ve been playing a lot of this lately, while Monster Hunter 4 still goes unplaced. Pokemon is just so casual. I had a big trading party with my grandson over the weekend, and with Kasul last night after foundries… Even after all these years, it still presses all the right buttons with me. Done the 7th gym. Taking a step back to rethink my team before I press on to meet the League.  ...

The Crew demo… I was going to talk about The Crew on +Pete Smith ’s thread, but, what the heck. Based on the G+ buzz around it, I downloaded The Crew last week and played it a bit. My video game-obsessed grandson came by this weekend and he put in his two cents as well. The actual racing is not that different from the kind of Need For Speed arcade racing you can find in any number of titles, online and off. The plot, such as it is, involves taking on missions to let you join and eventually rise to the top of the 510s, an old Detroit-based street racing club that has been repurposed as a smuggling ring run by a crooked FBI agent and “The Shiv”, the guy who gunned your brother down in cold blood and got you sent to the slammer (courtesy of the bad FBI agent). ...

Nice interview with the developer of Nevergrind, Joe Leonard. Joe Leonard on EverQuest Inspired RPG Nevergrind - Cliqist We speak with Joe Leonard about his Everquest inspired RPG, Nevergrind. This was posted on Google+

Looks like there’s other people out there trying to replicate the EverQuest experience in new ways. Nevergrind is a thinly veiled homage to EverQuest as a 2D browser game. Easy, quick, casual play. None of the xp loss on death or corpse retrievals, though… Look me up, if you can – Tipa, halfling rogue. Of course.Nevergrind - Indie Browser RPG Classic Everquest p1999 Indie browser RPG This was posted on Google+

First day back on the bike. Finally not freezing and not raining – in the morning, anyway. Sprinkled a little on the way home. Note the crews in the racing shells training on the Connecticut River in the background. Fog everywhere as the snow finally melts. This was posted on Google+

Twitter: Tipadaknife Steam: Tipadaknife PSN: Tipadaknife Neverwinter:@Tipa 3DS: 0018-3445-9542 DCUO: Usually TealLantern, hero, PC GW2: Tipa.8271 I’ve already friended all of you that had 3DS friend codes in your profile!This was posted on Google+

Combining what you liked best about the ratio of circumference to diameter and “Too Many Cooks”…. just…. just keep watching to the end….The Irrationally Long Number Pi Song (“Sweet Number Pi”) In honor of Pi Day, we try and name ALL the digits of Pi. Can we do it? See more http://www.collegeh This was posted on Google+

I’d like to introduce this week my stab at making foundry searching at least a little useful. I’ve added a sorting filter to my master list of reviewed quests (permanent link at http://goo.gl/XbV9hj). Click through to the spreadsheet. From the “Data” menu, choose “Filter views…”, and from there, “Sort Filter”.** The display will redraw, and you’ll be able to sort by challenge, story, combat, humor and unusual by selecting “Sort Z => A” from the tiny drop down menu at the upper right corner of the “Sort Chlng”, “Sort Story”, “Sort Cmbt”, “Sort Hah” and “Sort Weird” columns. To the right of the sort columns are the columns of raw data taken from the quest’s “Detail” tab. If a value has a dark green background, that means reviewers have given that a higher score than the average of scores of all the details. ...

Not two weeks after I finished Crypt of Befallen v2, AKA Newfallen, the devs have featured it, along with two other quests that Kasul and I have reviewed recently. So…. PLEASE log into #Neverwinter and play The Crypt of Befallen! It’s fun! You’ll love it! This was posted on Google+

In the weekly “What is Brenda listening to RIGHT NOW?” department, A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario”, just because it cracks me up every time when Busta Rhymes goes “RAWR RAWR like a dungeon dragon!” and because we played D&D last night. Wow, this is really 24 years old? I gotta get some new music someday.A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario Music video by A Tribe Called Quest performing Scenario. (C) 1991 Zomba Recording LLC ...