Getting Back in the Saddle

Despite an outrageous rally of site visits this past weekend (hello, whoever you are), there hasn't been a lot of activity on the blog.  Well that's about to change.  With vacation upcoming, I promise to spend countless hours playing, reading, reviewing, and waxing poetic about the loves of my life on the digital platform, especially with some thoughts on upcoming titles (some exciting stuff out of Bioshock Infinite, for example).

Even if it means a total abandonment of spouse, friends, and family, I will sacrifice willingly.

For longtime fans of my work (hi, mom!), and who would like to hazard an inclusion of happy-goodness for the coming holidays, three separate Amazon.com wishlists have been developed, each with a singular focus of bringing me joy.

For the joy of reading a good book, my Kindle reading wishlist.

For the joy of getting into a good game, my Video Game & Comic wishlist.

And for the joy of not being naked, my Clothing & Accessories wishlist.

Nuka Break: The Series - Help Make This Happen!

Listen - no, listen - yes, I am enrapturedly attracted to Zack Finfrock, but I also think that Nuka Break: The Series needs to happen.  This is The Guild worthy, and I want to support it. 

Nuka Break, a short fan film, really captured my heart with its ability to fully encapsulate the Fallout world.  The writing, acting, and production were spot on and AMAZING.  If I had $5,000, I would sponsor this project (a random number selected, certainly not because that is the level of sponsorship for which said sponsor would have a walk-on role and a chance to meet Finfrock and confess my their undying love).

If you're a fan of webseries, creativity, Fallout, or just cute guys, make this happen!  Visit their Indiegogo page and sponsor!  http://www.indiegogo.com/Funding-for-Fallout-Nuka-Break-the-series

Playstation Network (Still) Down

Hopefully you don't rely on this blog for updates on what's going on in the world of the video games, but in case you do (hi Mom!) - you should probably know that the Playstation Network has been down for about a week now.  This means that no online features are available, or online play (like, co-op in Portal 2, for example), can't access the PSStore (to spend money I don't have).  And there may have been some accidental leaking of personal data, like where I live and stuff - but nothing that wasn't already leaked by the Texas Comptroller's office.  Sony assures me that credit card numbers were encrypted, but I dare the hackers to try to use that card to buy anything more than a hot dog.

So today, Playstation released some presses (it was actually yesterday, but I was asleep) - saying that as sort of a "sorry" that users would be getting a month free of the Playstation Plus, and some mystery content (or maybe a choice between several types, as is rumored by the internet).  This is kind of exciting, because despite my rant about Playstation Plus, I actually kind of love free stuff - especially getting a trial at something.  This might be the sort of thing I angle to get for my birthday.

In the meanwhile, I've been trying my hand at Dragon Age II, and borrowing it is not going to work out - I'm going to have to own this eventually, because I already know I want to play it AGAIN, and I'm barely a couple hours in.

Did you want to buy me something?  That's so sweet.  You can check out my Amazon wishlist here: http://amzn.com/w/1HLFDVW8GNHV2.