A lot of gamers really dislike ‘casual’ games. I’m not one of them.  In my own opinion, the so-called ‘casual’ games movement is often just a return to where video gaming started: small and fairly easy to understand.  Accessible, in other words.

Return to Ravenhearst is a great example of how casual gaming is essentially gaming returning to its roots.  It very much feels like an old-school adventure game from adventure gaming’s CD-ROM based heyday.  Had it been released in the mid-90′s, during the era of 7th Guest, Gabriel Knight, and the like, it would be remembered as a classic.

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Something I simply don’t understand is how and why so many bad Christmas movies get made.  I’m not talking about movies that just aren’t that good, or have some issues, or maybe could have been pretty good in script form but then fell down in execution.  I mean absolute crap.  Crap they couldn’t have spent more than a single day writing, and barely any more time filming.

Tonight I watched a truly wretched bit of drek named Christmas in Wonderland.  This was, apparently, in theaters just last Christmas (for such a short time I didn’t even notice it, apparently…) and is already reduced to being a time filler on ABC Family’s “10,000 really crappy Christmas movies marathon.”

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WoW is currently the game that’s eating up my time (as it has been for quite a while now…)  I have a level 80 warrior, a 70 druid, a 65 mage, a 50 priest and some misc. nobodies I don’t play.  Just in case anyone is interested, I play on the Horde side on the Alexstraza server.

The new Wrath of the Lich King expansion is absolutely amazing.  I’m extremely impressed by how much Blizzard has been able to reinvigorate the game.  Every other MMORPG expansion I’ve ever seen has ultimately just been more of the same, but Wrath is an outright experience.

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I’m really not doing a very good job of keeping up on posting here.  It something I think about quite a bit – minor stuff mostly. Oh, that was kind of interesting, I should post something about it.  Only its been so long since I’ve posted something, I feel like posting a minor update is kind of stupid, and that I should work up something big to kick things off again.  Which I don’t.  And the longer its been since the last post, the bigger the thing I feel like I should post should be, which winds up meaning that I never post.

While pondering this problem, I realized that the only way to get around it was to simply post.  From now on, I plan to post every single day.  Of course, then I realized that New Year’s is coming up, and this would make a really good New Year’s resolution.  Then I realized that I was just trying to put off delaying updating some more.  So I modified my New Year’s resolution to be, “I hereby resolve to post every single day, starting three weeks ago as of New Years Day.”

Of course, three weeks ago was in fact on Tuesday, and its now Thursday night, which means I’ve broken my New Year’s resolution three weeks before I make it, which is kind of a new record for me.