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A rather lovely paean to Dana Scully and Gillian Anderson in Salon:
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2008/07/24/scully/index.html

your quote of the day.

"If you're going to condescend to women gamers, Paramount, at least do it all the way. Why not Steel Magnolias: Shelby's Return, in which players battle a zombie Shelby by throwing tears at her lumbering corpse (Tears are earned by gossiping at the beauty shop). Or Not Without My Daughter: Escape From Alfred Molina, in which players must absorb a certain amount of Alfred Molina's yelling, before gaining the speed required to run out of Iran."

-- Amelie Gillette on AVClub.com, re: Paramount's upcoming attempt at attracting the wimmins with games based on Pretty in Pink, Clueless, and Mean Girls.


Now I'm imagining a Bridget Jones game where you have to keep Bridget in smokes and sufficiently liquored up so she has the courage to...uh...I forget what the hell she actually did. Okay, if you don't keep her in substances, she can't write in her diary. The diary has a timelock, and when neglected, it explodes and London becomes a smoking crater. It's like 24, but with less torture, and more projectile vomiting.

spiffy custom moleskines @ SDCC

http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2008/07/attaboys-molesk.html

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Zuma trial expired, which is probably just as well since I stayed up until midnight playing it last night. Found Sweetopia, a game I bought several weeks ago because it was about candy and on clearance for tree dolla.

It's exactly the same game as Zuma, but with candy. Sweet, sweet exploding candy.