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  • Tuesday, July 21, 2009

    My Life as a Teenaged Girl

    Videogames

    The Square Enix game My Life as a Darklord for WiiWare is actually pretty interesting. As long as you don’t let anybody see you playing it.

  • Sunday, July 19, 2009

    Our sinks are broken, and the lobster’s loose

    Personal

    There are at least 500 ways that 500 Days of Summer could’ve gone horribly wrong, but somehow they pulled it off.

  • Saturday, July 18, 2009

    The Play’s the Thing

    Storytelling, Videogames

    I jump into the games vs. movies argument again, but this time Hitchock’s got my back.

  • Thursday, July 9, 2009

    Rule of Threes

    Videogames

    Trine the game is clever and polished enough to win over even the most die-hard haters of jumping puzzles (e.g. me).

  • Monday, July 6, 2009

    Very Red Necks

    Movies

    The only good thing I have to say about Near Dark is that at least the vampires don’t sparkle. Bonus: a rant about Transformers 2.

  • Saturday, June 27, 2009

    Thirty-Eight

    Personal

    From way over on the other side of the country, my family sent me a cake! It came in a big box packed with styrofoam and dry ice, like a transplant organ. I don’t want to think about what that must’ve cost. And I don’t want to make up a story about how I couldn’t…

  • Friday, June 26, 2009

    Oh, dag-dag, Mark!

    Movies, Videogames

    So after hearing and reading about it from all over, and then in preparation for the RiffTrax release, I finally bought and watched The Room. (In case you haven’t heard of the movie, it’s a comically inept melodrama-turned-comedy that developed a cult following after being relentlessly promoted in the LA area. Imagine this scene repeated…

  • Sunday, June 21, 2009

    Searching for Long-Range Comms

    Movies

    Moon is a 1970s psychological sci-fi movie artfully translated into 2009.

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This is the personal website of Chuck Jordan, an occasional game developer living in Los Angeles

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