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Annette just got a shout-out and a link from Cory Doctorow over on Boing-Boing. I’m guessing that’ll translate into quite a bit of extra traffic for her site. Awesome!…
Down the Old Kent Road
Is it just me or does “Teenagers” by My Chemical Romance really, really sound like they nicked the music straight from mid 70’s cockney rock band? Tell me the main guitar riff in that song doesn’t sound like Chas and Dave are playing it, and I’ll call…
Puny Humans
Cat tips over kerosine lantern, burns down house. Dog responds by grabbing owner by arm to awaken him, alowing him to escape. This pretty much matches up with my opinion about the base motivations of both dogs AND cats. I read once, of cats, thusly: “Thumbs! If only we had…
Reads
I’ve Been Reading: Warren Ellis – Crooked Little Vein William Gibson – Spook Country Drew Curtis – It’s Not News, It’s Fark Penny Arcade – Birds are Weird Ellis’s book is a fine novel, but somewhat less dark, and much less dense than I was anticipating. I’ll be buying…
Superior Nomenclature
Check out this article about US Army reservists. They mention a guy called “Max Fightmaster”. He’s a Staff Sargeant. STAFF SARGEANT MAX FIGHTMASTER! Although the article states that he’s a computer tech, so he’s likely a tech that’s fit enough to pass basic training, but in…
Neverquest
Sony are making an Everquest movie. Um. I mean, I’m not even sure if they should make a WoW movie, and WoW is pure crack cocaine to Everquests’ dime bag of skunk weed all full of stems and heavily cut with oregano and grass clippings. What’d be hilarious…
Seriously. Rocks.
A man who burst into an Upper Hutt house had a cache of weapons, including a machine pistol. He surrendered to armed police yesterday after officers threw rocks at the house, ending a two-hour standoff that forced shoppers to remain in a nearby supermarket. I had to read that twice.…
It's a wrench, I know. (See what I did there?)
So the answer to “Can you play through Bioshock using only The Wrench as a weapon?” is a big “Yes”, at least in Easy mode. In fact, since you’ll actually be equipping the plasmids like “Gain health and eve from hitting people with wrench” and “Extra fast move and…