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Spent a few minutes in a casino this weekend. No natural light. The stale smell of gin and compulsion. I found it ironic that while I was urinating, the sound system softly played, "We all live in a yellow submarine. A yellow submarine."
--Dylan
2003.05.13
Game Review of the Moment
Chess, a small-scale tactical turn-based strategy game, attempts to adopt the age-old "easy to learn, difficult to master" parameter made popular by Tetris. But the game's cumbersome play mechanics and superficial depth and detail all add up to a game that won't keep you busy for long.
Written from the perspective of a computer wargamer, as if Chess was a new game. Funny, I think. I tracked it down after having it in the back of my mind for a long while.

Quote of the Moment
You'd better make some noise while you can, because when you're dead, you shut up like HELL!
Reverend Ivan Stang, founder of the Church of the Subgenius.
The only trouble is that it brings to mind the Weird Al chorus "I'll be mellow when I'm dead..."

Image of the Moment
New currency designs always look wrong, but a big slash of peach? Ugh.