Dreidelbot
And here’s the Dreidelbot 8000. I made it out of Nomad Sculpt. Partly to make up for posting Santa renders while Hanukkah was still going on, but mostly because I wanted to see if I could make a Nick Park-style robot. Don’t be alarmed by his low battery meter; his fuel tends to last longer…
Santa, Baby
I’ve been having a ton of fun with Nomad Sculpt on the iPad. I admit I didn’t think much of it until I found videos by Eric Lee on his eric3dee channel. (Start with his video doing Popeye). Not only is it possible to make neat-looking models with it, using the Apple Pencil directly on…
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!