http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog Thu, 25 May 2006 07:38:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A warning: I’m going to talk about the season finale of Lost, which means if you don’t watch Lost, there is absolutely reason you should read this post. Every word beyond this sentence will be a spoiler; consider yourself warned. Still here? OK. I loved the season finale. Things happened, enormous ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=37 After Sony undid a decade’s worth of work and good will with a single E3 press conference, we decided to follow’s Peter Moore’s advice that instead of getting a PlayStation 3, one would be better off getting an Xbox 360 and a Wii. A wise man, I suppose, despite the ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=36 In case I haven’t told you yet in person, I recently took a jobby job at Computer Gaming World magazine — and as part of that deal, I’ve got another blog to barely update! As of now, there’s but one post and nary a picture of our dog [update: two ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=35 Just finished uploading a new gallery of pictures of our puppidog Popkin, going all the way back to when she was just a giant head and ears. Click here for a whole lotta photos of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi climbing on furniture, chewing on stuff, and looking off to the ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=34 By now, any gamer worth a salt has learned the shocking news: The official name of Nintendo’s next-generation console is Wii. Double-you eye eye. Pronounced “wee.” After living with a relatively sane name like “Revolution” for so long, the only natural reaction a gamer could have to the new nomenclature ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=33 There are certain movies that, in the critical parlance, “sacrifice story in favor of visual excess,” though I don’t think sacrifice is quite the right word — I’m pretty sure that the two can peacefully coexist, and that graphic artists do not perform a blood ritual over their screenwriting colleagues ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=32 Roger Ebert’s review of Silent Hill is up, and he doesn’t really like it — no surprise, and that’s not what I want to talk about (at least until we see the movie this weekend). The part of the review I want you to read is the final paragraph, in ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=31 I can’t stand April Fool’s day. What is it? Does it even qualify for one of those minor holidays like St. Patrick’s day? There just doesn’t seem to be much to it besides the lying. I guess my main gripe is that once a year I have to question everything I ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=30 I was trying to avoid bloggin’ about the oogy, surreal sense of relief that seemed to settle over giant swaths of America after Brokeback Mountain lost the Best Picture Oscar to Crash. I was trying to keep myself from linking to the unsettling comments I’d come across online written by ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=29 A particularly nasty side-effect of having one’s entire musical library digitized, cataloged, and instantly accessible is that one tends to get stuck wandering that library for all eternity — I’ve noticed myself listening to the radio a lot less and almost never discovering new music to listen to. So every ... http://www.patheticrobot.com/blog/?p=28