So I've been neglecting most of my other interests as of late to focus on this so called World of Warcraft. It's pretty damn fun. I especially like the crafting system. I'm proud to say that I've become quite the blacksmith and miner.

I was going to talk about this a little bit. How I'm conflicted between my punk mentality and how every since the whole Two Live Crew thing I’ve been told by the liberal media that we have to be fanatical in our defense of the First Amendment in our art; and how on the other hand I would rather there be a more stringent system in place so that a) I would no longer have to hear all this fucking whining about kids playing non-kiddy games and who on Earth would even think to imagine that games could be non-kiddy; and b) thus protected from culpability (or at least better protected) developers are free to create whatever wonderful adult content they wish so that I (being legally, age-wise an adult) could be thoroughly entertained/provoked/whatever.
Also you may notice that at the bottom of my Gov's presser it offers "Titles with Descriptions:" but there are no descriptions (at least while I'm looking at this and writing). The Chicago Tribune's print article (which adorned no less than the front page) does provide descriptions of these games from one of their writers and then a list of the Naughtiness to be found in each game. To be sure, most of these games have (or in the case of the game yet to be released – how the fuck you lodge grievance against a game that has yet to be released yet is beyond me) very unchild-friendly content. So next to Halo 2 it says something like “portrays violent shooting of aliens” and next to GTA San Andreas “Gangsters attack police and others and steal cars” but for the last game on their list, Shadow Hearts, it says simply “contains sexual innuendo” and “demonology and eastern mysticisim”. Yes, they misspelled mysticism, but also how is eastern mysticism equivalent to graphic portrayals of violence and sex??? It’s not even close. Not by a long shot. And as the Encyclopaedia Britannica says in their article on mysticism “Forms of mysticism are found in all major world religions, by analogy in the shamanic and other ecstatic practices of nonliterate cultures, and in secular experience.” I guess we can take this to mean that Gov. Roddy wouldn't like any practices/ideals from Asian religions portrayed to the childrens. Which is fine, so long as he classifies all religious content havin’ games to his “adult” section, which should mean the kids would have to say goodbye to all those Star Wars games and their whole fake Zen thing they like to call "Jedi". Seems strange to me but whatever.

But instead of doing that just wanted to say that I have finished KOTOR 2 this day, and the ending is so inadequate it’s laughable. It really really hurts; it’s so abrupt and inarticulate. But it is some of the fastest 40 hours I’ve ever played. For the first 35 I was completely enthralled and dying for more, so I guess my suggestion to you is to play the first 35 hours or so and when you think you’re nearing the end go look up a spoiler that way the game will end on a high note for you.

Who cares that the Jeopardy guy finally lost for not knowing H&R Block was the answer to final Jeopardy only to be given free tax preparations for the rest of his life by H&R Block? There's a new Penny Arcade strip up, and boy is it funny.