World of Meh!

I use Google Voice.  I think it’s fantastic.  I especially love how it will do a voice to text translation of voicemails and send an email transcript.  I do not love it for its accuracy.  On the contrary, I love it for its complete inaccuracy and butchery of the English language.  Allow me to demonstrate:

I enjoyed Dragon Age: Origins immensely, as indicated in this review.  What I didn’t mention in the review is that we downloaded and played all of the DLC currently available as well.  Well, to be fair, The Stone Prisoner DLC was included with the game, but we did purchase the Warden’s Keep and Return to Ostagar DLCs.

Since childhood, I have been a great fan of fantasy.  I have played many fantasy-genre RPGs over the last two decades, and they remain one of my favorite genres of video game.  Needless to say, I was excited about the release of Dragon Age: Origins.

(Editor’s note: This was written in September.  It has been waiting on the fancy little “Featured Articles” icon to be created.)

(Editor’s note: This was written in September.  It has been waiting on the fancy little “Featured Articles” icon to be created.  This means the last time I played SMG was in June.)

I understand that a company as large as Microsoft requires a very large technical support staff.  I can understand that putting their technical support centers in India is more cost-effective for them.  I can understand that, since the centers are in India, they are more likely to use scripts and automatic emails to get over the language barrier.  I understand all of this, and  yet I am furious at their ineptitude.

When I was a yound lad, I came upon a video game called “Sid Meier’s Civilization”.*  I played the shit out of it.  I then played the shit out of Civilization II.  I then kept my shit-playing-out-of tradition alive with Civilization III.  By the time Civilization IV came around, I had less playing-the-shit-out-of-things time available, so I was only able to gently peruse the game.  Suffice it to say, Civilization and I have a history.  You can imagine how excited I was, then, to find Civilization: Revolution on the Xbox 360.

Most people know who the Super Mario Bros. are.  Even if they don’t know who Luigi is (poor guy), they know who Mario is.  New Super Mario Bros. Wii fits in to that famous legacy perfectly.

Whoops…Wrong Mario.

I know I’ve got it around here somewhere….

*rummage*

It has been over three months since my last post, over five months since Lindsey’s last post, and boy do we have a lot of catch-up to do!

This was written for Lindsey.

Whenever I’m with you,
Gazing deep into your eyes,
I see such a heavenly view,
And all fear within me dies.

As I journey further in,
My heart and soul are pained
By the overwhelming din
Of the joy that I’ve attained.