Dreams, reconsidered
sonictempest Every now and then I have dinner with some old school friends, and inevitably one of them will ask me a pointed question about how it is that I’ve been…
Rants
Bumper Stickers
Why do people use bumper stickers? That’s just something that randomly occurred to me the other day while stuck in traffic. The car ahead of me was festooned with the…
Warning: Pedantry ahead
I\’ve been watching (and enjoying) the new take on Carl Sagan\’s classic Cosmos series about the universe (this time around hosted by the entertaining Neil deGrass Tyson), but I\’m not…
Pot, Kettle, etc
One of the big pieces of news coming out of GDC last week was this comment from Fez developer Phil Fish: But when he asked what the panel thought of…
Making excuses
The ‘big’ release of last month was Duke Nukem Forever, a game that’s been about fourteen years in the making, mainly due to purported incompetence on the part of 3D…
Comparison Theatre: The Witch and the Warrior
Confused by the title? Well, read on and all will become clear. I’m a fan of 3D action games in general, and I’m currently working my way through two of…
Oh, who would ever want to be king
Looks like King of Fighters XIII is en route. (logo yoinked from Dengeki Online) To be clear, I didn’t like KOF XII at all. I did pay $60 for the…
I have the worst luck with computer parts
I bought 4GB (2x2GB) of RAM during Amazon\’s pre-Black Friday sales last week. I got it on Monday and installed it, and things ran smoothly…until I popped into Left 4…
Leaving on a, uh, shuttle bus
I\’ll be heading to Vancouver next week for what will hopefully be a brief trip to get my US work visa stamped. And before you ask, yes, I have to…
I fucking hate AVG Antivirus
So I read this story on Slashdot this morning and reacted the same way any sane techie would: \”My god, AVG is a pile of crap. I need to get…