Author: Chuck

Friday, August 16, 2013

Paper Chase

Storytelling, Videogames

My thoughts on Gone Home and what it reveals about storytelling in video games
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Sometimes When We Stylus

Technology

A review, more or less, of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, plus a bit of marveling on the current state of tablet computers.
Monday, July 15, 2013

Jagermeister

Movies

Pacific Rim has a message, and that message is “shut up and watch.”
Monday, July 8, 2013

Like a Super Hero

Videogames

I’m not qualified to write a eulogy for Ryan Davis, but I wish I were.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Oozma Kappa

Movies

My report on Monsters University
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Forty-Two

Personal

I’m going to keep insisting that the beard is prematurely gray.
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Pity the Poor Oppressed Majority

Politics, The Internet

How do you separate the art from the artist when the artist is such a flatulating asshole? Also: why the hypocrisy that makes me so angry might actually be a harbinger of oncoming poetic justice.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Towards Our Digital Future

Videogames

The “Xbox 180,” SimCity, and how someone who absolutely abhors software piracy can still think DRM sucks.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

But How Does He Save?

Movies

Man of Steel isn’t an unqualified success, but get this, nerds: it’s still the second best movie about Superman.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Everybody’s a Critic

Movies

The documentary Room 237, the democratization of film criticism, and a belated eulogy for Roger Ebert
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Shadows of the Empire

Personal, Videogames

What I learned from a job at LucasArts fifteen years ago.
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Krypto-Bigotry

Comics, Politics

Belated thoughts on Truth, Justice, and putting an end to a pernicious claim about Freedom of Speech.