I enjoy adventure games quite a lot. They can be interesting, funny and clever. The good ones anyway. Bad ones…obviously, involve rubbing every object against every other object in a belaboured attempt to figure out what the hell you need to do. Mostly this feels like a writer/developer assuming everyone (or mostly everyone) will make the very same leap of logic as them. But anyway, the point…
I’m pretty sure I mentioned that I’d be doing another food post. Mostly it’s things I’ve cooked recently, a few photos and some thoughts.
So, after writing about My Secret Garden everything around here went a bit…quiet. Over on Peter Reviews it’s also been pretty quiet…So, at the risk of this post being quite blog like – which isn’t really the direction I want for StudiousOctopus – here’s the deal.
Well, this post turned out a little rant-ier than I thought it would – it might get edited later, but probably not – It’ll just have to be ranty.
I’ve just finished reading My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday, and I wanted to talk about it a bit. While I don’t talk about it much, I do read ‘Feminist’/Egalitarian blogs and one of the often talked about issues is ‘sexy’ stuff. Sadly, a lot of Internet feminism is still pretty backwards while trying desperately to convince itself otherwise. So, My Secret Garden is a pretty popular book about sex, written in the 70s and reprinted about eight or nine times a decade each decade since then.
An obvious warning – I’m gonna talk about a sex book…with sex in it. Duh.
So (I should really get out of the habit of starting articles with so), I recently rented and finished Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. In a lot of ways it was a bit of a try before buying decision – we’ve played all the Assassin’s Creeds so far. But luckily (or unluckily?) the game turned out to be not worth playing…really, really not worth playing.
Just a small warning: there are going to be some series spoilers. But chances are you either already know because you’ve played the game or couldn’t care less.
So, thanks to having a LoveFilm subscription I can enjoy renting games that I don’t really want to buy – either in case they turn out to be a waste of money, or because it’s a game I mostly want to try rather than keep. The ‘Just Dance’ games fall into the latter category. So, here’s a short look at them.
Remember when I mentioned I bake/cook food (with varied levels of success)? Well here’s some more food writing.
