I try to write something once a month and haven’t gotten around to it this month, so here are some random thoughts. I have been really tempted to write about the steep decline happening in politics, not just in America, but everywhere these days, but there is way too much material to go through, and most of it is from
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Just when I thought I was done talking about original and innovative games, No Man’s Sky comes out, which is very different than any game out there. I got the PC version, whose launch was problematic. I got a pretty good gaming rig, and ended up with frame rate problems that plagued many players at launch. After updating drivers, disabling
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With the huge popularity of Pokemon Go, it is inevitable that other “augmented reality” games might happen in the future. I’m a fan of innovative games. Over the years I have seen innovations in games come and go. Some have stuck around a long time, like first person shooters. Others, like games for Kinect, kind of disappeared. Even the Wii
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I’ve caught so many Rattata and Zubats in my house, I’m thinking of calling the exterminators. Pokémon Go For those that don’t know, Pokémon Go is a phone based game that requires walking around the neighborhood. Landmarks (public works of art or unique signage) are marked as Pokéstops, where you can get free stuff, and also use lures there to
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The above picture is the oldest picture from the oldest version of Date Ariane. The modified date is listed as August 6, 2004. As I was finishing the Renpy version of Date Ariane, I decided to dive into my archives and attempt to play the oldest version I could find. It wouldn’t run on any browser, not the way it
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For over a decade I have swung on a pendulum between “creative” and “playing” and after three years of mostly being in “creative” mode, I seem to be in a deep “playing” cycle of video games. Hence my lack of blog posts as I generally have little to say while in “playing” mode. One of the games I have been
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Why are we craving the past so much these days? This seems especially true in movies, music, and video games. Lets start with movies: Remakes, reimaginings, and of course prequels and sequels seem to be the norm of movies, and the few non-prequels and sequels are based on comic books and novels people are already familiar with. Are there no
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Feeling a little bored, and getting some good reviews from my friends, I decided to check out The Sims 4. I have a long history with The Sims dating back to 2000 when I got The Sims 1 and eventually all 7 expansion packs until my computer could not handle any more. When The Sims 2 came out, I got
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The last couple of weeks have been embarrassing for anyone who calls themselves a “gamer”, so much so that I am disassociating myself from that title. Maybe I’ll call myself an “Online RPer” or something, I don’t know, but the “gamer” culture is over. For a couple of decades now there has been this ongoing joke about the existence or
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I love playing games on the PC. With console games, the controller has always gotten in the way for me. A keyboard in the left and and a mouse in the right is the most natural way for me to play games. The last few games I have played have been sad disappointments. The latest was the super hyped Watch
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