Evening Reading

Finished off Defense Grid: The Awakening last night. Despite the goofy name, and equally goofy storyline--then again, a storyline in a tower defense game is inherently goofy--the game was pretty fun.

Rather than your "tower" being destroyed the second enemies reach it, the sci-fi mechs and monsters instead carry away your cache of energy orbs one or two at a time, which gives you a second shot at them as they exit the map. It also can create a ridiculous chain of events, where orbs linger in the middle of the map as you desperately attempt to bulk up your rear defenses.

Worth $20 on Steam? If you're not already burned out on tower defense, I'd say yes.

The news for today:

From The Chatty
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    December 17, 2008 6:02 PM

    Dueling chatties?

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      December 17, 2008 6:02 PM

      Battle of Steve and Nick.

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      December 17, 2008 6:02 PM

      It's Captain Breckon Vs Iron Gibson!

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      December 17, 2008 6:03 PM

      FIGHT!

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      December 17, 2008 6:03 PM

      BRING IT ON

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      December 17, 2008 6:04 PM

      I like this one better, which means it will lose.

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        December 17, 2008 6:06 PM

        Looks like Steve backed down. We won!

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        December 17, 2008 6:06 PM

        Please. I call the shots around here.

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          December 17, 2008 6:07 PM

          Didn't remo say that... once? da da duuuuuuuhhhh

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          December 17, 2008 6:08 PM

          I'm counting down the days until people notice you stopped posting stories and are no longer on the Team page classic Shack style.

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      December 17, 2008 6:06 PM

      HERETICS, this chattie is unclean and must be purged

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      December 17, 2008 6:06 PM

      Victory for the Upstart!

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      December 17, 2008 6:06 PM

      See AlexXdude? I toldja!

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      December 17, 2008 6:07 PM

      This is a sad day for the shack =(

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        December 17, 2008 6:36 PM

        a shack divided against itself?

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      December 17, 2008 6:08 PM

      THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

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      December 17, 2008 6:13 PM

      How did my side lose?

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      December 17, 2008 6:25 PM

      I immediately got a mental image of cartoon representations of drucifer and dognose's shack personalities playing the respective parts of Dueling Banjos when I read this.

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      December 17, 2008 6:31 PM

      posting in the dumb thread so I'm not left out.

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      December 17, 2008 6:33 PM

      i don't understand

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        December 17, 2008 6:41 PM

        Steve and Nick posted an ER simultaneously. Steve chickened out and deleted his before the universe imploded.

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          December 17, 2008 6:48 PM

          oh i guess i posted in the wrong chatty because i thought my post got nuked. it was such an awesome post though, it's too bad that it's gone.

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            December 17, 2008 6:51 PM

            And we posted the first thing that came to our heads, Just so happened to be, The Best Post in the World, it was The Best Post in the World.

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