Recent content by Cordelia

Bay leaves will keep out many flying insects. Just tape them to the undersides of tables, put them in your cabinets, whatever. Ants won't (as a rule) cross red pepper, so put a line crushed red pepper across the thresholds of your doors, windows, etc. (On the outside, of course.) I can...

As many people have mentioned, the one topic virtually all people love discussing more than any other is themselves. Their life, their opinions, their day to day activities. People will tend to like you more, or at least feel more positively towards you, if they feel as though you are interested...

Touch Detective for DS isn't exactly going to break your brain, but it's charming and funny. Hotel Dusk makes me drowsy whenever I try to play it, but I did rather enjoy Still Life--just get the PC version, not the Xbox version. Evidence's puzzles are a bit obtuse, but the game is, overall...

Ok, I just replayed the sub level part, and Fontaine/Atlas was never in any danger. It's all classic misdirection, it's staged theater for your benefit. What do we actually see? Fontaine running toward the sub. Then there's lots of shouting, some spider splicers show up, and then mist and debris...

If you don't order certain games, the store won't stock them, period. This is true of more obscure games--you certainly won't ever run this risk with the games they actually prompt you to preorder, like Super Smash Bros or, god help us, Madden--but if your tastes lean towards the weird, then...

The problem I had with the Little Sisters was that you're asked to make your first decision about harvesting or rescuing before you're emotionally invested in them either way. Atlas has told you that they're monsters, Tennenbaum has asked for your kindness, but it's so early on in the game that...

Persona 3 is much more lighthearted and upbeat than the rest of the Shin Megami series. The combat is only half the game, though--the rest of the time, you must balance your school work and social life to create "social bonds," which give you access to new Personas. (Personas are creatures that...

What does everybody want?????

I recommend Sir Apropos of Nothing, by Peter David. Just keep your tongue firmly in your cheek as you go. The wordplay in it will have you positively groaning, but in a good way.

You just described why I had to stop playing WindWaker. Once I found out there was treasure in the ocean, I just *had* to find it all...which, naturally, became an exercise in futility and frustration. I stopped playing shortly afterwards. Yes, I have issues. I know.

You and me both. I didn't really think much of having a DVD player until I wanted to watch something that the local video rental outfit only had on VHS. It was horrifying...so...grainy.... The only stuff I'll willingly watch on video now is something I taped myself 10 or 20 years ago, and...

Because nothing revs a supermodel's engine like references to Boris Vallejo and Freud. ;)

I'm sorry, I'd really love to comment, but I have to fall down on the floor and laugh until I go into some kind of respiratory distress. Wait. I'm going to watch it again first. Twing Twang!

And that is the reason for the goggles.

I'm one of those people who has to hunt down every last collectible in a game, so I didn't have a problem. But he's right--you have to have 800 arrowheads and be level 20 in order to continue the game at that point. Bit of a roadblock, that.