http://www.smilingpolitely.org The third iteration of the politest blog in town Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:43:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can personally vouch for this one. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/55 While Braid is a fine puzzle game, I still gotta give the edge to DROD as far as pure puzzle satisfaction goes. Not that it's really appropriate to compare them. With Braid, my experience was (for the most part) that of studying the network of platforms leading to some puzzle ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/51 Braid came out, and despite my earlier cynicism, it is indeed garnering tons of critical praise and appears to be selling pretty OK, at least for an XBLA game.  Shows what I know, I guess. My Braid experience was similar to my Portal experience: almost immediately after release, all in one ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/48 Apparently the comments have been messed up (mostly my own fault) for quite a few days now.  Things should be fixed now, so you can continue to comment or not comment as you will. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/46 Moving to Ottawa just justified itself as I got to go see Wolf Parade last night.  The ticket was a bit pricey, but basically Wolf Parade will have been the favouritest band of mine that I've seen live now, if that makes any sense.  Mrs. M. had to go to ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/44 When I first acquired my 360, I quickly hopped onto the Xbox Live Arcade train and snapped up a handful of titles, all of which have treated me well more or less. I probably would have traded Puzzle Quest for something different as it wore out its welcome after ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/39 Nintendo fixes their broken controllers.  Allegedly. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/38 It's E3 time, and nobody really cares any more but there is at least one bombshell that has gone off: Final Fantasy 13 coming out for the 360 (in the States at least.)  Kaboom. Oh, and there is a ton of awesome Rock Band news, but I'll get to that later. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/37 One advantage to living in central Canada:  Amazon ships from Mississauga.  The "free super shipper saving", which I've used twice so far, which used to take 1-2 weeks to get to Fredericton if I was lucky, has basically been overnight here.  I think if I dared pay for the express ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/36 Google has been ordered to turn over the full records of every video seen on YouTube, including the user names and IP addresses of all viewers.  Privacy concerns were set aside because, hey, "in most cases" only knowing an IP address isn't enough to identify someone so like, it's probably ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/35