Recent content by chiasmata

Siiiigh. I stopped reading DC with the New 52, the new directions for everyone just made me cringe. But I'm surprised Marvel is going down the same path. A lot of what they've been doing has gotten good media attention, like female!Thor, Miss Marvel, the X-Men wedding a few years back. I don't...

I'm a biology grad, not in the US though, and I've had a few different jobs related to biology. I've worked in an actual science lab, behind the scenes in a museum, for the Department of Agriculture and now I work in a reference library on science related questions. I'll say flat out that...

I've got Endless Legend and Valiant Hearts in my backlog, and This War of Mine on my wishlist. I'm quite tempted to get HuniePop next, just for the lols.

I don't begrudge having to use Origin to get a free game. I do get a bit antsy when I need to log in to Origin to play Ubisoft games I have purchased and the Origin servers are down about once a fortnight.

The Marvel universe has always revolved around what was popular at the time. @ccggenius12 is spot on with Nick Fury. The Ultimates universe was created after the success of X-Men for the movie fans to have a comic series that was easy to start reading and more inline with the movieverse. After...

Trying to grab my free copy of Theme Hospital but oh look! Can't log in to Origin once again. :/

Yes, that sounds extremely familiar! I recently uninstalled a Candy Cracked Saga clone on my phone because I couldn't stop playing it, and got mildly frustrated when I was socialising with friends because I couldn't pull my phone out and play.

Are you thinking of Hugo 2: Whodunnit (1991)? https://archive.org/details/Hugo2Whodunit A murder mystery where you explore a house and its (rather wild, venus fly trap infested) gardens. I spent many hours playing this in my misspent youth! :)