Archive for December 5th, 2011

Skyrim: The Real Enemy Is Horses: horses make you stupid

, | Game diaries

After getting my assignment I decide to hit the local shops to see what’s up with them. I’m a bit short on gold since these people apparently don’t know brooms are the shit but I meet a nice girl smith who won’t stop talking about her father. Whatever. I am not here to be your therapist. She instructs me on how to use a couple of the equipment-things around, basically by giving me free shit and then being like ‘return to me when you have done something useful!’ Where ‘useful’ is ‘create a bunch of leather strips’. I don’t know what they do for fun in this town and now I really don’t want to.

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December 5: wallet threat level Mario

, | Games

You’d think Mario-themed games would be out in time for the all-important Thanksgiving shopping weekend. You’d be wrong. This week sees two arguably tardy releases for Nintendo systems. Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 3DS adds a new dimension to the same old game and nothing else. Fortune Street for the Wii may very well be one of the weirdest surprises I’ve had all year. What I thought was a Nintendo themed Monopoly game is instead an oddly hardcore boardgame. Stand by for full reviews of both games.

Qt3 Movie Podcast: Shame

, | Movie podcasts

We’re all fans of Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, and director Steve McQueen. But we’re not all fans of their latest collaboration, Shame. Since the movie is rated NC-17, so is this podcast, which contains the words penis, hog, and honker. This week’s 3×3 of our favorite transitions in movies kicks in at the 1:06 mark.

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