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Today I wanted to talk about something a little bit different--a topic which may actually anger some of some of you. What is this topic you may ask? Well it is none other than what one might call "Bait and Switch." Now before I continue on, keep in mind that this can actually refer to different things. While Bait and Switch can refer to an illegal act, in this post what Ill be discussing is when developers make a game to appear to be one thing (or have one specific feature), but then do a complete 180 and possibly shock and maybe even anger you. One famous example is none other than Metal Gear Solid 2, and thats where Im going to start this. In the year 1998 the very first entry in the Metal Gear Solid series was released. This game took what had been set in the original Metal Gear series, updated it for the PlayStations new advanced hardware, and it took stealth and storytelling to a whole new level. The game became insanely popular, and before long fans began their long wai...

Not much to report lately. There have been no play sessions, and work on the ex-Scrabble magic system has been sporadic and slow (mostly on the bus). My term ends next Friday, so Im trying to catch up on my huge grading backlog. Still, most of last week was devoured by Battle for Wesnoth. I found this computer game while trouble-shooting an old Linux laptop of mine. I wanted to see if the laptop would lock-up during use, so I was just going to play a bit of Tetris. But I had previously uninstalled all the games, so I pulled up the package manager... and happened to notice this turn-based war strategy game with a fantasy theme instead. Wesnoth is free in both senses of the word (as in speech and as in beer), and its also available for Windows. I know this because I installed it on my normal laptop after it had consumed one evening of my life. Now fantasy war/strategy might make you think of Warcraft. (The old Warcraft, that is, not WoW.) But Wesnoth is turn-based, which is much more enj...