Star Wars and Focusing on the Wrong Thing
Getting closer to a Grand Unified Theory of what makes something “feel like Star Wars”
Star Wars Pi Project: Intro and call for suggestions
I want to make a Raspberry Pi project that’s probably beyond my skill level
Sunday Smackdown: Ghostbusters (2016) vs Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Two movies enter the arena, each with a different idea of what made the original Ghostbusters work. (Some spoilers for Afterlife)
EV Diary 2: The Honeymoon Continues
Minor update to my experiences with the ID.4 after a second road trip
My Favorite Games: The Sims 2
Memories of the game series that taught me about abstractions, and about how profitable video games can be (for other people)
Bandersnatch and Possibility Spaces
More like an extended-length episode of Black Mirror than an interactive movie, Bandersnatch reveals (probably intentionally?) most of the problems with interactive fiction.
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: It’s Tricky
Two tangentially-related tunes for Tuesday, to remind me how I was so much more blissfully ignorant before Wikipedia
My Favorite Games: Diablo II
Stay a while and listen
One Thing I Love About Dune
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is the best adaptation of a book I only know via adaptations
My Favorite Games: SimCity 3000
You can’t cut back on nostalgia for the SimCity series! You will regret this!
My Favorite Games: Final Fantasy Tactics
Possibly my favorite video game of all time, and one that’s apparently impossible to recreate
My Favorite Games: What Remains of Edith Finch
An ongoing list of my favorite games, starting with an astounding, metaphor-filled, exploration game by Giant Sparrow