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All of the Orange Box, really, but I was playing the TF2 beta before the other stuff launched and I'm still playing TF2 after having gone through Episode 2 and Portal a couple times each. After about 60 hours I'm finally starting to tire of the same six maps and teammates who don't want to work together, so I may be able to pull myself away to do my Goddamn work. In the meantime, here is my strategy guide for all of you out there playing TF2 with me: Stand on the point you assholes. Status as a Future Writing Obstacle: Moderate

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After deftly avoiding its clutches in its handheld incarnations (thanks partly to warnings about bugs in both versions), I've finally fallen to the Live Arcade edition of Puzzle Quest. And with the way I play video games, that's not a good thing. Not a single quest can go by unfinished, no beast uncaptured, and no town unseiged and subsequently whored for money to boost my stats. With the way I've been hammering away at it, it shouldn't last too much longer, but until then, the pull is very hard to resist. Status as a Future Writing Obstacle: Surely to God there can't be much more

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Various personal faults. Aside from the obvious laziness, I don't think I'm much of a random blogging sort, at least by nature. I outgrew my desire to shout my opinion about everything at others a long time ago, only to find it's this impulse that the Internet was founded on. Oops. I suppose I should work myself out of that, and get used to writing smaller things quickly and off the cuff, but it's hard to find something worth saying. Or more accurately, worth reading. Status as a Future Writing Obstacle: Outlook hazy, try again later

I don't want this to turn into a writer's workshop, I just wanted to post some response to the people wondering as to my whereabouts. There are still articles and things in the works. Beyond that, if you guys can think of anything you'd like to see here (DON'T SAY THE NEWS), feel free to give suggestions. I'll get to them right after I finish Puzzle Quest. No, really.