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Monthly Archive February, 2015

New Shoes and Plans for March

Quite unexpectedly even for me, yesterday I got myself some new shoes. More specifically, they’re the running shoes I had sort of decided on when I went looking last month, though there were a few other possibly even cheaper options that would have been better as actual replacements of the ones I have now, and […]

Say GOG and Flush: Region Locks

Just days after I wrote that long post dealing with the first year since they suddenly decided to give up on one of their two clear, specific principles and allow regional pricing, GOG.com stooped even lower and decided to start blocking people from purchasing games based on their location. More specifically, two days ago the […]

A Year Since GOG.com’s "Good News", What Did We Get?

Yesterday marked one year since GOG.com’s “good news” announcement, which promised day-one launches and preorders for big AAA titles and games from major studios and barely mentioned the price for this, namely introducing regional pricing for said titles, in passing. So, after all this time, what did we get as a result of them giving […]

My Mouse Had Been Waiting for Me Since January 12…

Yesterday, nearly a month and a half after dropping it off, I could finally go and pick up the replacement for my new mouse, which had failed after barely a month. Even more annoying, however, is the fact that I could have done so as early as January 12, so after only a week, but […]

Quick Review: Pirates of the Poesasian

I must start by saying that the author sure liked to show off his vocabulary and penchant for flowery descriptions. Worse, this bled into the characters, the result being even more jarring because this style is also used to depict the thoughts or speech of those highly unlikely to even know a fair number of […]