April 2010
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The Mass Effect Effect
So after buying a physical copy of Dragon Age: Origins, installing and playing for a bit I came to my customary fork in the road: to persevere or not to persevere. Initially I uninstalled, vowing to use the time thus saved more productively. Of course I cracked several weeks later and reentered the land of junkie wizards and slightly irritating companions. I tuned out again not that long later as...
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It's Only a Game
It’s what my mum would say, exasperated as I would mash the keys on our knackered Commodore 64, or hurl an innocent joystick to the ground in petulant fury. I could never explain my anger adequately, why it needled me so much to have lost the third of three lives, no continues left. Partly it was simply being a bad loser, unwilling to concede defeat to a computer that even then was dusty,...