25 posts tagged “qotd”

What was your worst cooking experience?

Let's just say it turned out something like this:

What is your current obsession(s)?
Submitted by eijsr.

Quantum Physics (those are some really great lectures but they'll be a repeat to you if you've read QED)

Who or what do you really love?

The Becca. She's even partially responsible for the bacon pops today (even though she'll claim they were all her idea). I love her even if she is kwazy.

How do you beat writer's block? 
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

Don't start at the beginning. I can never go from point a to point b when writing anything so I go from point x to z, then I realize that I can do point a to y, z to b, etc. From there filling in the gaps is easy.

I find it particularly fascinating that you really couldn't do this without a lot of retyping until the age of the word processor. I only adopted this policy recently since I'd been taught to start at the beginning growing up, just like everybody else, even though I the only thing I ever learned to type on was a word processor (all you old people can groan now). I wonder if it's really necessary to teach starting at the beginning these days or if it's probably still worthwhile so kids don't just write all the interesting and fun bits and ignore the rest of the writing which is something I definitely would have done if given the chance.

What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.

Okay Vox, you're bringing it on, giving me questions I can't resist answering. I get it.

NUMBER THE 5th: Asheron's Call on the PC
I was dipping outside of my regular stomping grounds with this one (as an MMO) but it was a lot of fun. AC was the alternative to EverQuest when it first came out and although AC always had fewer subscribers, it was always more eloquent and impressive with what it created. I've tried a number of MMOs for a couple days or a week and even the ones a lot of people really enjoy feel like crap sometimes. This one really felt epic and even though I'll probably never play a classic MMO ever again, it was really fun to play with the real-life friends I actually knew. Something about the system of items and quests just made you feel like you had unlimited possibilities. I rerolled too many times to ever really compete with the serious gamers though.

NUMBER THE 4.5th: Diablo II on the PC
This game was the hottest hack-and-slash to ever exist. Not only did online play make me fiercely competitive for the ladder spots and best items but hanging out in the basement with 3 other friends powering towards the same goal is totally fun. Blizzard kept this one going for a while too with updates that had new items and skills. Mostly, this game was just really well made. Although I won't be able to play D3 like I used to play D2 (all night and with lots of caffeine), I can't wait for it to come out.

NUMBER THE 4th: Super Mario World on the SNES
Like SMB3 before it, awesome map-based platformer with so many hidden things that it took forever to really finish.  It was the first game I ever really owned on the first system I ever owned (everything before it involved me going over to my friends' houses). The only thing about this game that I dislike is unlike the real mario games before it, going from new game to end boss is boring - it's just a short route with some secret paths, no warp whistles or warp pipes or anything. Plus, it had yoshi. Who can deny the impact yoshi has had on all our lives now?

NUMBER THE 3rd: Final Fantasy VII on the PC
I never had a playstation so I had to wait to get this game when it came out for PC. But I heard good things from my ps-playing friends. And this game was good, EPIC even. Awful graphics. And LOOOOONG. But soooo much fun. Before that I had never played the FF series and now I'll be picking up FF3 for the DS this afternoon. Changed my rpg-loving life, man.

NUMBER THE 2nd: Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 (and subsequently, Perfect Dark 64)
Not really an FPS lover but Goldeneye had it all: the perfect FPS controller (other than a keyboard + mouse), awesome graphics (for the time), nifty AI, a good assortment of guns (all named fake names to avoid legal action, surely - I still think KF7 whenever I see an AK-47) and replayability. It doesn't take too long to beat the game on easy but there are time-based achievements on each level for easy, normal and hard. I added Perfect Dark 64 on the end there because it's basically the same game but with the ability to attach remote-detonated mines to characters. Boom.

NUMBER THE 1st: Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES
As much as I love the original SMB (and we don't speak about the second), this one really does it for me. Definite replayability and some seriously hard levels. I can't even find the words except for Best Game Evar.

What are your top 25 most played songs? 
Submitted by Cooxie.  

iTunes has my top songs back for a long while but it's all stuff I'm bored with now. Here's my last.fm top tracks which are a much more accurate representation. As you can tell, I tend to listen to albums as a whole rather than random (or favorite) tracks.

1 Sam Roberts – Uprising Down Under   
2 Sam Roberts – With A Bullet   
3 Sam Roberts – Bridge To Nowhere
4 Sam Roberts – Mystified, Heavy   
5 Sam Roberts – The Gate   
6 Sam Roberts – Mind Flood   
7 Hem – Half Acre   
8 Frou Frou – Let Go   
9 Guster – Satellite   
10 Sam Roberts – An American Draft Dodger In Thunder Bay   
11 Guster – New Underground   
12 Hem – When I Was Drinking   
13 Sam Roberts – The Bootleg Saint   
14 Guster – Manifest Destiny   
15 Sam Roberts – The Resistance   
16 Mew – Special   
17 Guster – Lightning Rod   
18 Mew – Chinaberry Tree   
19 Mew – Apocalypso   
20 Guster – One Man Wrecking Machine   
21 We Are Scientists – This Scene Is Dead   
22 Mew – Why Are You Looking Grave?   
23 Hem – Burying Song   
24 Mew – Fox Cub   
25 Cut Copy – Time Stands Still

How many times in the last three days have you had dreams about playing on the Wii controller?

Oh, TWICE. In the first one I was at a store that had a couple left on the shelf but I couldn't decide which color I liked most so I kept on going back and forth between them and someone ended up buying them before I could decide. It was sad. Last night I was using it to play the original Super Punch Out! (it was all holographic as well, in my dreams) and then I won a contest to get a Wii for myself but I had to use the controller to shoot people and get through this maze or whatever first.

I have to admit, I'm excited for the Wii but not obsessively as my dreams might suggest. I didn't go for a preorder this morning and I don't intend to. I'll just call around on the day it comes out and go get one of their 2 MILLION ship-day units. Hopefully.

I'm not the only one, right?

What's the best way to spend a rainy day?
Submitted by Vee.

Back on the EC (yes, I said it) the best way to spend a rainy day was in the rain. San Francisco is just too damn cold whenever it's raining to actually want to be in the rain. As a reminder, I'll complain that I miss the rain and actual seasons and snow and friendly people but I really do love San Francisco in the end...

How did you meet your best friend(s)?

The same way everyone else meets their best friends: Craigslist.

What was the last game you played?

The "let's study hard for the first calc II exam" game. I will continue to play in my free time for the rest of the day.