So what have I been up to, aside from slogging though Churchill?

- Red Faction: Guerrilla. Picked it up off Steam. The multiplayer game is fairly lousy - some major graphics bugs are keeping people out of it, which means that it's almost deserted, and the bugs themselves make it annoying. But the single player game is fun, in a Grand Theft Auto meets Blast Corps kind of way. There's something viscerally appealing about taking a sledgehammer to large constructs, then (hopefully) getting out of the way before the whole thing comes crashing down. I've also had some appallingly funny deaths - my favorite was from bailing out from a moving car, just before it smashed into a giant lamp pole outside a cemetery, only to have the light fixture dislodge from the shock and land directly on the space that my character was occupying. Squish, whoops. Fortunately there's not much of a death penalty...

- Katamari Forever. Odd and funny as ever, but much sharper in HD. Which is a good thing, because a lot of the levels were cribbed off old Katamari games, so you've literally rolled 'em up before. Still, not too bad if you're a fan of the concept or have a tremendously high tolerance for weirdness.

- Eureka 7. Mood just took me, so I've watched through most of it rather than launch into new shows. Occasionally tough to take at the beginning, as Renton has a bad case of Shinji Syndrome to start with, but he eventually gets his head out. Great conceptual "other planet" story, which takes what could have been a thin excuse for "they have flying surfboards" and builds it into a fairly good plot.

- Yotsubato vol. 6. I've only been waiting what, five, six years for this thing?

- Demon's Souls. Or not, actually, as my attempt tonight to obtain this amazingly-well-rated and hurt-me-difficult game were stymied by everyone around here being totally sold out. But my travels were rewarded, as I did obtain a copy of...

- Brutal Legend. Metal as advertised, except where it is more metal. Brilliant Ozzy cameo. I haven't exactly been inculcated into the great secrets of metal, but when a level is a giant capstan pushed by head-bangers suspended over a lake of lava, it's hard to go wrong. (And that's the FIRST level...) It's hard to write self-aware humor without going too far into the Bruce Campbell zone, but so far it's doing a good job. Doubtless I'll expand on it later.

- Gobs and gobs of overtime. The recession hasn't hit law firms, at least not so long as there's suits about all those obscure investment vehicles that were involved with the real estate collapse... Good thing, because contracting is dead at the moment, with virtually everybody who uses contractors on life support or fleeing the market altogether.

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