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Hey Fyre,

So Autumn is here, and with it the awful hate parade that is the Video Game Holiday Season, now literally longer than an actual season.

Most other towering horrors are best tackled with some sort of gameplan, so I’m going to throw down a rough outline of the upcoming media torrent’s few offerings that I hope might be filled with creamy dulce de gioco rather than the grainy nougat of mediocrity:

October 6 – Resident Evil 6
I have RE5 still sitting unopened on the game shelf, so this isn’t any sort of early purchase, but RE4 was so, so, so very good that I still have tons of leftover good will for the action-horror era the franchise has moved into. Once I’m done with 5 – someday, shortly after I learn Esperanto and lose 20 pounds – 6 will pop up onto my “buy this game if it’s under $20” radar. Assuming it doesn’t just turn out to be shit.

Hey, is it me, or does Leon get to wear the best jackets in these games?

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Fyrehaar: also, totally OT
Fyrehaar: “Peoples claims in the countersuit that every decision he made was approved by Keith Young. And he calls Vince Young’s unwillingness to accept responsibility “a common occurrence … as (former Titans coach) Jeff Fisher, (Texas coach) Mack Brown, numerous NFL executives, coaches, teammates, scouts, girlfriends and illegitimate children will attest.”
Sonic Rob: oh snap
Fyrehaar: right?
Sonic Rob: btw, playing the Raiders in madden franchise mode is an exercise in frustration
Fyrehaar: why them, do they cut and move to another city mid-season
Sonic Rob: well, you can
Sonic Rob: it might help, actually
Sonic Rob: they’re locked into several multi-year high-paying contracts with mediocre players
Fyrehaar: oh damn
Fyrehaar: and you have to honor them
Sonic Rob: so you start off with a shit team, you’re trying to rebuild it with free agents and good draft picks
Sonic Rob: and meanwhile Jamarcus Russel’s salary is 10m and climbing every year so I can’t afford to hire the rookies I draft
Sonic Rob: to say nothing of Javon “$14m over 5 years isn’t enough for me to hang onto the goddamned ball” Walker
Sonic Rob: or Robert “mobility and pass-blocking skills of a rusted dumptruck” Gallery
Fyrehaar: time to Moneyball that shit!
Sonic Rob: no, I’m seriously gonna go for Moneyball here
Fyrehaar: nice
Sonic Rob: I trade draft picks so that instead of drafting 1 player in each of 7 rounds I’m drafting 4 or 5 times each in the 4th and 5th round
Fyrehaar: heh
Fyrehaar: get some options from other teams for that shit
Fyrehaar: trade Russell!!
Sonic Rob: get lots of solid dudes locked into 7-year contracts for cheap
Sonic Rob: and instead of having a buff first string with shitty everyone else, have depth
Fyrehaar: word
Fyrehaar: depth is where it’s at
Sonic Rob: If I trade Russel I take his guaranteed pay for the year as a cap hit
Fyrehaar: oh fuckin hell
Fyrehaar: he’s a damned poison pill
Sonic Rob: I literally can’t afford to trade him away now that his pay has ballooned so high
Fyrehaar: art imitates life
Fyrehaar: but that is the point isn’t it?
Sonic Rob: At Least with Nnamdi Asomugha he costs his weight in gold but he’s worth it
Fyrehaar: Man, there are some great names in the NFL, aren’t there?
Fyrehaar: Like, they could all work for NPR when they retire

There has been a significant break in service here at FireandSonic.com. That is because FyreHaar and the Leatherworker welcomed a tiny, beautiful Spark into the world in mid-May. Our attention has not really been on blogging about the video games we aren’t playing.

Now the great fiery one has emerged from seclusion and is getting a reasonable amount of sleep each night.  We hope to provide you with somewhat amusing content on a vaguely regular basis.

Cheers!

-fh & sr

The writing is on the wall for my beloved Winona, as she is now struggling to run Total War: Shogun 2, a demanding but by no means unprecedented strategy title from last year. I’m sure she’ll be able to swing Portal 2 when I get around to it as well as any number of other titles; indie stuff like Bastion still glides along just fine.

It’s only a matter of time though, now. If your PC fails to run a current game at playable speeds even on lowest settings – any game not named Crysis – you’re going to need to start spending a lot more time looking at Tom’s Hardware in the near future.

I’m thinking my next PC will be named Vera.