Author: Chuck
-
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…
-
The Criminal Projective
Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 4: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective is out now, and everyone with money should buy it. Everyone without money should ask for some and then use it to buy it. It’s my favorite of the series (although episode five is coming along pretty good, too), partly because…
-
Back to Work
I’m mainly posting just to get this blog back on the weighty topics of rambling about videogame design and making shallow observations about pop culture, instead of whining about McCain and whatshername. I tried my hardest to get all enthusiastic and inspired about the election, excited that the lines were too long for me to…
-
Country FIRST POST!!!
Hey, did you guys hear? Sarah Palin said something dumb that was picked up by the “gotcha” media again! I can remember hoping for more substance than sound bites and petty insults in this election, more talking about actual issues instead of transparent attempts at media manipulation. And I keep trying to rein in my…
-
By Their Farts Ye Shall Know Them
It turns out that Dead Space wasn’t able to hold my interest very long, after I saw a friend at work playing Fable 2. The game was completely off my radar, because I could never get into the original Fable; I was disappointed in the unfulfilled potential of Black & White; and I was unfairly…
-
Resident Evil, But They’re in Space!
Over the past few nights I’ve been playing Dead Space, the new sci-fi horror shooter from EA. It’s an extremely well-made and entertaining game, and I’m enjoying it a lot. I want to make that clear up front, because I spend the rest of this post complaining about it. And I’m even going to go…
-
Forty Years of Banging the Crap Out of Things
Another year means another post from me imploring people to see the San Francisco Taiko Dojo’s Concert in Berkeley in November. This year is the 40th Anniversary Show, so it should be a pretty big deal. I’m especially looking forward to it because I missed last year’s concert in Berkeley as well as the past…
-
Le Monde de Goo
I already wrote praising “World of Goo” on here when the game was still in pre-order/preview status. Now that the game is available, and I’ve seen past the first chapter, I feel obliged to talk about it some more. Everything I said last time still stands, but there’s more. I’m still not halfway through, and…
-
Literacy 2008: Book 8: The Graveyard Book
Book The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Synopsis The Jungle Book for goth kids. No, the Real Synopsis After his family is killed, a toddler wanders into the neighboring graveyard. He’s taken in by the residents, raised as one of their own, and taught the ways of the dead. Pros Genius concept, interesting and endearing…
-
Exhuming McCarthy
Over the past couple of days, there’s been a good bit of attention towards the change in tone of the presidential campaign, more specifically, the McCain campaign. “McCain Denounces Pitchfork-Wavers”, announces the Time Magazine blog. And “Obama Thanks McCain for Admonishing Reporters”. The incident in question is a campaign rally in which McCain told his…
-
Sequential Images
I wasn’t aware of The Criterion Contraption blog until the author started commenting on here, and I wish I’d found it years ago. It’s exactly the thing I’ve been looking for. The premise is that the aforementioned author, Matthew Dessem, is watching the movies of The Criterion Collection in order by spine number, and writing…