Month: December 2008
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Literacy 2008: Book 9: More Information Than You Require
Book More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman Synopsis John Hodgman got famous from “The Daily Show” and those Apple ads and also he’s friends with Jonathan Coulton. (Actually: a continuation of his almanac of made-up facts, begun in The Areas of My Expertise). Dismaying Fact Discovered Hodgman is only 24 days older than…
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I Won’t Miss Him.
Over the past few days, Starchie Spudnoggen has been posting pages of a semi-obscure Toybox comic by Steve Purcell (could the two internet personalities somehow be related?) It starts with nine pages of “The Visitor” from the Dark Horse Hellboy Christmas Special, and ends with Ernie’s Holiday Ditty. (The Toybox story from Fast Forward is…
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And Santa Can Be Our Regular Saturday Night Thing
I know it’s been done before, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for tradition. Here’s wishing everybody (including Mr. Swayze himself) the haziest, laziest, Swayziest Christmas of them all. Pain don’t hurt, everyone! Pain don’t hurt us one and all.
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Sack o’ Monkeys in My Pocket
I was wandering around the internet last night and ended up spending at least an hour looking at MST3K clips on YouTube. It really was the best television series ever. There’s the Idiot Control Now song from Pod People: (You can see the bit they’re making fun of as well). And the Fugitive Alien Medley.…
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8-Bit is Enough
8-Bit Is Enough is the senses-shattering season finale for Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, and it’s out right now! On WiiWare and for PC from the Telltale site! What the hell are you doing still reading this, instead of buying it and playing it?!? This one was a metric ton of work by…
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Your Eyes are Getting Very, Very Heavy…
I forgot to mention: last week my friend Jake invited me to be a special guest villain on the Idle Thumbs podcast (direct iTunes Store link to the one I’m on), which he runs along with Chris Remo of Gamasutra and Nick Breckon of Shacknews. I’m told that the gang frequently gets together to talk…
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I Don’t Heart Huckabee
I just watched the December 9th episode of “The Daily Show”, which ended with Jon Stewart’s interview with Governor Mike Huckabee on the issue of same-sex marriage. Stewart did a good job with the interview, making his point forcefully without being disrespectful to his guest. He raised almost all of the relevant points, he explained…
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Feedback’s a bitch
Previously on Spectre Collie, I made the claim that the “state of the art” in story-driven games still treat storytelling and gameplay as two completely separate things. In even the best games, the player’s role is that of the guy who pushes buttons and/or shoots guys in the way; the key story moments happen in…
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I Tell You What
Georgia’s changed so much in the 13 or so years since I moved away, that there’s not much left there that I miss. One thing I do miss is the accent, or at least my own version of it. I never listen to myself talking (because, you know, I’m kind of boring), so I have…