Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Norman Rafferty's LiveJournal:

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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
12:32 pm	Anthrocon Report ... (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
8:04 pm	I'm back in Cincinnati! (6 Comments |Comment on this)
2:53 pm	( Prototype vs. InFamous -- Deciding which game is better the only objective way: cross-dressing... ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
8:41 pm	Happy birthday, jdarkwulf! Have some cake! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
11:54 am	I'm all e-published and stuff! Yes, I'm a contributor to Escapist Magazine! Here's my review of Welcome to the NHK, Eps. 1-12. And here's an article on the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, not by me ... and my rebuttal. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
11:43 am	Happy birthday, toonishvulpine! (Comment on this)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
3:08 pm	From torrle: Yes/No Meme 1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'. 2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING, unless someone comments you and asks. ( Read more... ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
5:53 am	Ra(n)t: I called it! Man, I should've documented it here, that David Carradine was, like Kevin Gilbert and Michael Hutchence, a victim of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Side note: some people asked me why anyone would do such a thing, if it's so dangerous. Mr. Carradine was 72 when he passed ... which means he may have been doing this sort of thing for almost sixty years without a hitch. (Hah! Hitch! I kill me. Wait, not really...) On a side note, I will reflect fondly on the incoherent bad movies I used to watch on the Movie Channel, starring Mr. Carradine. And Death Race 2000 is still awesome. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
12:13 pm	Ra(n)t: Living in the Future So Team Fortress 2 is a first-person shooter game. There are new weapons. It used to be that to get the new weapons, you had to earn achievements. For example, "kill 20 guys in one life" or "capture a control point yourself" or "go a whole round without shooting anyone". Get enough of these, earn a new weapon. Of course, you had the "cheater servers" -- folks who would log in to servers that had games set up specifically to make "earning" these achievements easier, such as robot-players controlled by the computer who just sat there and let you kill them, etc. The company's possible workaround? "Drops". Now merely by hanging around in a game, you can randomly earn weapons. Of course, this is even easier than a cheater server, because all you have to do is leave the computer running. Team Fortress 2 has a friends tracker. My leaderboard is currently lit up with a dozen people ... none of whom are actually playing the game, they're just letting it run so they can be idle and their game can rack up new weapons. When I signed up for this game, I wasn't expecting to have to wade through a listing of people who say they're playing the game, but aren't. :P (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 29th, 2009
3:19 pm	I look just like my Myspace picture! ( And now, Sexting... ) thanx mightygodking.com (4 Comments |Comment on this)
1:56 pm	October 2006 Flashback ( Hey, remember 2006? Remember my old cel phone? I didn't, until today... ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 25th, 2009
4:29 pm	Quote for the Day... "Let me suggest first of all that appeal isn't magical or mystical. It's pretty straightforward, actually. The three ideas that influence appeal are: Effective use of design principles, creativity, and attention to audience and purpose. ... " -- Sam Nielson, "Rant of the Week: Appeal" (Comment on this)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
7:50 pm	Quote for the day... "Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female, but not the male." -- Alfred Kinsey, via Mary Roach thanx ff00ff (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
4:29 pm	Quote for the Day... "[I] simply wonder why the people at Kajar didn't spend four years creating their own project instead of standing on the shoulders of someone else's work. ... If the answer is that they didn't have the inspiration or ability to create their own world, their own characters, their own art and their own assets, then I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing that they ultimately failed. In an industry already struggling with a crisis of creativity, why exactly are we championing anything less than originality again?" -- Sean Sands, "Imitation is the Sincerest Form" (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
10:04 am	Rafferty continues his campaign of destroying your childhood, so you won't feel bad when it's raped ( TrueGameHeadz presents: Five Reasons There's Never Been A Golden Age of Gaming... ) thanx returntonull Damn, I was all set to write this essay, myself, but this guy said it better. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
10:19 am	Quote for the day... "I'll put it to you this way: you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders." -- Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota thanx theweaselking (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
8:06 pm	Tragic Moments in Fursuiting... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
8:06 pm	Happy birthday, nicodemusrat! Here's hoping for more nice weather. (Comment on this)
3:18 pm	Writer's Block: Home Cooking When was the last time you cooked for yourself? What did you make? View other answers The last time I cooked was yesterday, but that was just with the George Foreman's grill -- the bachelor's friend. The last time I made anything of significance was ... criminy, two weeks ago, when I made a pizza from scratch, with feta cheese in both the crust and on the pizza. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
10:48 am	Things Geeks Say #96: "As a discussion among gamer nerds grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Cthulhu approaches 1." (5 Comments |Comment on this)