Recent content by salvagebar

Counterstrike. I played that game nightly for 5, 6 months, and just never got the rhythm of it. If my roommate wasn't sitting next to me, playing it religiously, I would never even have stuck it out for that long. Absolutely, hands down, the most unhelpful community of gamers I have ever...

I was eighteen, moved right from high school to college, graduated, went back home for the weeks it took me to find a job, and then left. I know a lot of people do the "I took a year to backpack around Europe and find myself." thing, and 80% of the time it is just masturbation and delaying...

Yes. Not regularly, but more than a few times. No spoilers for these two - both games are over ten years old: 1) the death of Floyd the Robot in "Planetfall" (text adventure, look it up). He has been an annoying comic relief device for the entire game, but he is your only company in the...

I keep thinking about Stephen King's explanation about the difference between horror and terror. Horror is the sense that the normal rules don't apply, and the world itself is starting to come unhinged. This is the kind of thing Lovecraft tried to pull off all the time: things don't make...