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  • My Favorite Games: BattleZone (1998)
    Sunday, September 13, 2026

    My Favorite Games: BattleZone (1998)

    My Favorite Games, Videogames

    A reinvention of one of the first first-person games, made in the age of real-time strategy, is the perfect example of 1990s game development optimism

  • Host, or, Telepresence
    Thursday, September 10, 2026

    Host, or, Telepresence

    Backlog Zero, Movies, Spooktober 2026

    A short appreciation for a short and solid quarantine lockdown horror movie

  • The Old Dark House, or, Who Let the Saul Out?
    Wednesday, September 9, 2026

    The Old Dark House, or, Who Let the Saul Out?

    Backlog Zero, Movies, Spooktober 2026

    An absolutely bonkers collaboration between James Whale and Boris Karloff, but not that one

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Is It Worth It?
    Tuesday, September 8, 2026

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Is It Worth It?

    Music, Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tunes tangentially related to the pointless discourse around generative AI

  • The Babadook, or, It’s Nice to Have a Man About the House
    Tuesday, September 8, 2026

    The Babadook, or, It’s Nice to Have a Man About the House

    Backlog Zero, Movies, Spooktober 2026

    Continuing early Spooktober with an excellent movie that I hated watching

  • What Lies Beneath, or, People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Do Rear Window
    Monday, September 7, 2026

    What Lies Beneath, or, People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Do Rear Window

    Backlog Zero, Movies, Spooktober 2026

    Soft-launching Spooktober 2026 with a Dreamworks version of Hitchcock that everybody’s already seen (no spoilers anyway)

  • Bad Vibes Coding
    Saturday, September 5, 2026

    Bad Vibes Coding

    Technology

    Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

  • The Steam Machine: Now You’re Playing With… Convenience
    Friday, September 4, 2026

    The Steam Machine: Now You’re Playing With… Convenience

    Technology, Videogames

    Early impressions of the unremarkable, “underpowered” living room PC that changes everything

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This is the personal website of Chuck Jordan, an occasional game developer living in Los Angeles

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