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Princess Bride Game
Although I was super excited to get my review copy of the Princess Bride game, I wasn’t sure whether I would automatically like this game because it’s based on the Princess Bride, or hate it because it’s based on the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged Books, casual games, ESL, Game Reviews, games, movies, Princess Bride Game, RACL, Raleigh, time management, worldwide biggies
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A Nice Family Christmas
Stick and I went to my parents’ for the traditional ham and latkes Christmas dinner, which I’d missed last year in favor of our Jenny Lou’s Christmas feast. My cousins gave us an electric kettle, with the part about “automatic … Continue reading
Posted in New Jersey
Tagged family, Jenny Lou, my family is crazy, New Jersey, Stick
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Sparkly Like A Holiday
Stick is on the phone with his stepmom Char, telling her his pre-Christmas plans. “Tomorrow I’m going to bring Meg to work, and then I’m going to take the car to finish shopping and get her Christmas present.” He pauses … Continue reading
Ancient Secrets
I recently heard about Ancient Secrets over on GameHouse. You play as Kate, a young archeologist, who is following her father’s footsteps in the search for the lost key of the Tekka. Kate needs to gather solves puzzles to gather … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Game Reviews, Gaming Culture
Tagged Ancient Secrets, Books, casual games, China, Game Reviews, games, hidden object, latin, LOST, mac, text-based, text-based games, travel, WarCraft, World of WarCraft, Young
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Rated E For Everyone (but especially me)
Guess what I got in the mail today? A review copy of a new game! It’s an actual hard copy, on a CD, in a case with a picture on it and everything! It’s a game you can buy in … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture, Raleigh
Tagged casual games, games, mail, my other writing, new game, Princess Bride Game, Raleigh
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Fail
I wasn’t going to post about this — actually, I was just going to clean up, throw away all the evidence and pretend that we’d never had a kettle, but I couldn’t get the fumes out of the house before … Continue reading
Victory Milk
Coupons depress me. If you summed up everything I loved about our expat adventures, clipping supermarket coupons would be the opposite. It seems to sum up the repetitive mundane side of life in the US, which is of course made … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, China, cooking, Jenny Lou, mail, melamine, Raleigh, Stick, travel, Vanguard, why I love Stick, wo ai xi can, Yantai
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My Tribe
MyTribe, by Grubby Games, is a happy Lost-ish sim, with all the mysteries and none of that annoying Others soap opera. I downloaded the game mostly because Casualicious.com’s recent post made it sound like a civilization-advancement sim without that annoying … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Gaming Culture, Raleigh
Tagged casual games, Civilization, Facebook, Game Reviews, games, Grubby Games, LOST, My Tribe, MyTribe, mytribe mysteries, Raleigh, random, ThumbGods
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