Stuff I've been eating.

[prog]

JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL was my train-riding book today because I had no other, and I found that the very next chapter addressed the continuing fates of the characters I had taken for forgotten. I stand by my earlier criticism, because there is a very real difference between a reader anticipating missing characters' return, and wondering if the author's simply misplaced them.

LOST continues to be a soup of delightful and spicy meatballs floating in a broth of stale television cliches. Usually I have no palate for it, and sometimes I just have to have five bowls of it. I slurped down a good half-dozen episodes over the last 24 hours, and have three more to go before I know what half my flist is so happy about.

PSYCHONAUTS is wonderful, and is currently a $15 download for XBox 360 users. (I understand PC users can enjoy it via Steam, as well.) I have a lengthy post about it that I may actually finish someday. Suffice to say it's certainly the best written platformer-genre game I've ever played.

RACE FOR THE GALAXY is an amazing card game and I wish to play it again right now. I will almost certainly be purchasing a copy soon.

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[prog.livejournal.com]

Also, from all that I'd heard about Psychonauts, I was surprised to learn that it's a platformer... I was expecting a more traditional adventure game. And yeah, it took me at least two play sessions to get through the sequence that I believe you're describing. Anyway, definitely a surprising use of the medium.

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

And yeah, it took me at least two play sessions to get through the sequence that I believe you're describing

I was referring to the sequence inside the Russian (?) female agent's mind, where it's all set up like a disco/nightclub, and I'm learning about how to hover and roll around. It's been a couple of months since I last tried it so the details are fading.