I got a four-leaf clover from a girl with no name

A few weeks (game time) into playing Rune Factory Frontier, I ran into a lavender-haired girl after a festival. Never saw her before then, and she doesn’t seem to like to get involved in any sort of activities with the other townspeople. Even though I’ve seen her occasionally hanging outside Mist’s house tambling on about some kind of church, she still hasn’t told me her name. She can’t be a love interest, because I’ve already met all 12 of the bachelorettes. My guess is that she’s connected to someone else in town.

Suffer like Dave did

My sister turned 18 yesterday, and as a treat, the family took her out to the Dave & Buster’s restaurant down by the waterfront. I had been down there before with a few buddies of mine, but last night was the first time I had entered the game room. There’s a much larger variety of games here than there are at most of the arcades on the Boardwalk, though the cabinets at D&B don’t accept quarters. Instead, they have these card readers attached. Every game costs a set amount of points, and you swipe your card through the reader to start playing (you can pick up the cards when you order your meal, it seems).

NBC, you got some ‘splainin to do

Man, what a mess this big “Jay Leno Show” experiment turned out to be. First, he leaves The Tonight Show to make way for Conan O’Brien to take over as host. Then, they give him a weekly talk show at 10 PM, while scuttling all of its programming at that time slot to make room for the new show. New show gets bashed by critics and ignored by those who didn’t already hate the idea. Leno’s ratings suffer, local news affiliates’ ratings suffer, and subsequent late night shows’ ratings suffer (Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon, to be precise).

I want my jetpack!

Oh…almost forgot about the Dark Void demo, which came out on the same day as the demo of Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond (but the actual game won’t be ready for one-and-a-half weeks).