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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…