Month: November 2008
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Lepton of Disappointment
The worst thing about Quantum of Solace is that it has to follow Casino Royale. That’s the capsule review I’ve been hearing in the past few weeks: “It’s not as good as the first one, but still okay.” And that’s a shame, because it’s not a bad movie; in fact, it’s still in the top…
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Mediawean
It’s disturbing how dependent I am on television; I think I’ve never gone more than a week without access to live TV of some sort, and being without it makes me inexplicably nervous. A year ago I did a price comparison between keeping satellite service, or dropping it and getting shows via the internets, and…
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The Criminal Projective
Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 4: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective is out now, and everyone with money should buy it. Everyone without money should ask for some and then use it to buy it. It’s my favorite of the series (although episode five is coming along pretty good, too), partly because…
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Back to Work
I’m mainly posting just to get this blog back on the weighty topics of rambling about videogame design and making shallow observations about pop culture, instead of whining about McCain and whatshername. I tried my hardest to get all enthusiastic and inspired about the election, excited that the lines were too long for me to…
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Country FIRST POST!!!
Hey, did you guys hear? Sarah Palin said something dumb that was picked up by the “gotcha” media again! I can remember hoping for more substance than sound bites and petty insults in this election, more talking about actual issues instead of transparent attempts at media manipulation. And I keep trying to rein in my…
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By Their Farts Ye Shall Know Them
It turns out that Dead Space wasn’t able to hold my interest very long, after I saw a friend at work playing Fable 2. The game was completely off my radar, because I could never get into the original Fable; I was disappointed in the unfulfilled potential of Black & White; and I was unfairly…