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• 25Apr 13

  The Greatest RPG Ever

  

  Anything else is wrong.

  • Posted Apr 25, 2013 10:47 pm GMT
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• 8Apr 13

  Essential Reading List

  Decided to make an essential reading list for anyone interested in reading what I consider the greatest of classics.
  
  Dante - The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova, The Convito, basically anything you can your hands on because he's brilliant
  Carl von Clausewitz - On War
  Homer - The Odyssey
  Arrian - The Campaigns of Alexander
  Xenophon - The Expedition of Cyrus
  Plutarch - Parallel Lives
  Cicero - Political Speeches & Defense Speeches
  Ovid - Metamorphoses
  William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, et al. All of the tragedies + The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III & Twelfth Night
  Aeschylus - Oresteia trilogy
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
  Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
  Herman Melville - Moby Dick
  Virgil - Aeneid
  Niccolo Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy & The Prince
  Lewis Caroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass
  John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
  
  And some modern stuff that's fantastic if you have even a passing interest.
  
  Modern writers
  Tom Holland - Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (probably the best and most readable novel about the last 50 years of the Roman Republic)
  Kenzaburo Oe - A Personal Matter
  Ivo Andric - Bridge on the Drina
  Ross King - Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
  David McCullough - 1776
  Jean Edward Smith - FDR
  Jean Renoir - My Life and My Films
  Rick Atkinson - An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
  Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
  R.W.B. Lewis - Dante: A Life

  • Posted Apr 8, 2013 5:36 pm GMT
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• 26Mar 13

  I, too, got BioShock Infinite.

  Yup. And at full-price too, smh. First game I bought full price this year and won't be the last. I'm still at the very beginning and will be playing more today after the World Cup qualifying matches are done. Also, I think I'll be playing with my 360 controller. This game's mouse sensitivity is waaaaay too loose and I just prefer the 360 controller in single-player FPS.

  bonus: read my sh1tty BioShock review from when it first came out. fvck that game now

  • Posted Mar 26, 2013 7:23 am GMT
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