Gain Sense

  I recently bought a Google Nexus 7, and love it so far. For you to understand how I got to this point though, I'll need to start from the beginning... I was always a skeptic when it came to owning a tablet. In fact, I held fast to the idea that they were pointless. Until now. It all started in 2010 when Apple came out with the iPad. It seemed to me like a nice toy to play around with. A luxury item that the wealthy could flaunt in the faces of the rest of us while they gleefully loaded up Angry Birds on the morning train to work. In other words, nothing that had any practical use. I just didn't get it. A 10 inch fragile screen that does everything a budget laptop can do, for twice the cost. On top of all that, it lacked a keyboard, so it would be useless for word documents and taking notes. As someone who often finds themselves in a classroom, I did not find that at all attractive. Flash forward two years, and my perspective has reversed. This is mainly due to two reasons: th...

                  I will be honest in saying that I let the sentiment of the general public get to me when it came to choosing whether or not to play The Witcher. Indeed, I had assumed that this game wasn't worth playing mainly because of what I had read about it on the internet. After paying the huge sum of $2.50 for The Witcher: Director's Cut, I fired the game up and expected something that, as I had read from reviews online, was unpolished, had a horrible combat system, and lacked in so many other areas that I would be convinced to skip it entirely and play The Witcher II instead. Thirty hours into the game, I can tell you that most of these accusations are overblown or downright incorrect, and that it would be a severe mistake to pass up on the first Witcher just because the second one is an improvement. First off, one of the primary complaints I heard of this game was that it had amateurish voice over dialogue. While it is important to ...