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Somehow I managed to write this in its entirety last week, and not post it. Good job, Hearn! Idiot. Here it is, a week later:

In lieu of actual humor and important stuff, I give you a modified link day! Today’s links are all games that I’ve come across lately, and they are AWESOME.

• Storm Winds: an opportunity to buy anti-aircraft weapons and use them to blow up steampunk enemies. A good way to waste a half hour or so after you eat your Lean Cuisine at lunch.
• Sea of Fire 2: The sequel to Sea of Fire 1, which had basically the same plot but the gameplay was pretty weak. They fixed that in SoF2; if you liked “Age of Empires” or “Command and Conquer,” this is along those lines. Build stuff, upgrade it, use it to build weapons, and blow up your enemy. I’ve beaten both sides of the conflict up to the “normal” level; the “hard” level lets me get to about 2/3 of the way through and then just says “screw you, you aren’t getting any further, jerk.” Frustrating, but still fun.
• Magic Pen: I quite literally spent something near to four hours playing this earlier this week. It was one of the most depressing displays of wasted time since college. Either you will not really get this game, and give up after round 3, or you will simply not move until you beat it, which will take a while. Oh, what’s it about? Drawing objects and watching how they interact with physics. Seriously, it’s awesome.
• Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 3: Do you like Guitar Hero, but don’t want to shell out the benjies for the guitar and game combo? Have you always wanted to play your keyboard like a guitar? This is the game for you. It’s basically a complete Guitar Hero ripoff that you play on your keyboard. The first few songs are pretty easy, but it gets Hard with a capital iz-aitch.
• Forum Warz! They warn that this game is highly offensive, although I’m about 3 levels in and it hasn’t been TOO execrable yet. A little gross, to be sure; I’d imagine anybody over the age of 40 is probably not going to like this game. Or if you’re just a prude. I’m having fun with it, though.

That’s all I got. Have a good’n.