Once I announced that I was done with the graphic update on Date Ariane, the traffic on the website shot up as expected, resulting in many 503 and 404 errors. I know from experience that the best way to alleviate the traffic is to release a downloadable version, but the state of the game was not good enough to do
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I have now finished updating 1155 pictures from Date Ariane. There are 5 pictures from the original game that have not been updated because there really isn’t a need. If you want to see a history of the updates, I documented it on my tumblr blog. The original game had 1278 pictures, the majority of pictures I “cut” were from
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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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It was not that long ago that people did not think the internet mattered to the economy as a whole. Now it seems the internet IS the economy. This has created a lot of interest in trying to control the internet from multiple different directions. These attempts to control that which is at this stage uncontrollable now threaten the internet
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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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August is a slow month, so I decided to break the monotony and try out a few Visual Novel Dating Sims created by other people. I played four that are at least interesting enough to check out. Inspiring Celina Story by Superawesomemans Graphics by Sylakone2 Download and Online play link This is the newest and the best of the four
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This week Something’s In The Air reached 100,000 downloads, and I thought I would celebrate the fact with another Director’s Commentary on the making and playing of the game. This post will contain spoilers as well as solutions to puzzles and assumes that you have already played the game. If you have not read the previous commentaries, here is part
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The official word came this week from Linden Labs CEO: “Linden Lab is working on a next generation virtual world that will be in the spirit of Second Life, an open world where users have incredible power to create anything they can imagine and content creators are king. This is a significant focus for Linden Lab, and we are actively
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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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her (yes it is not capitalized) came out last December, but was just released on video this past week, which is when I saw it. I rarely review movies on this blog, only when they apply to the topics of this blog, but I review movies all the time in other places, and this film got to me. First of
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