I wrote almost all of this piece in late 2010, right after I finished playing Super Mario Galaxy 2. I never quite finished it, though, and soon it found its way into a folder, which eventually was put into another folder, which thereafter was dropped into some other folder inside a folder. This is not […]
Quickish thoughts: Solatorobo: Red the Hunter is a decent enough game, but not quite good enough to make me want to run through a New Game + any time soon. I guess I’d lightly recommend it? The game is very pretty and charming. Those are the only unqualified compliments I can pay it, so I’ll […]
I just finished Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors (999), a Nintendo DS game by CHUNSOFT. It’s an intriguing little gem, one which probably isn’t quite like anything you’ve played before. I don’t really feel like writing a tome about it, but it deserves a few words at least. 999 uses restarting after a game […]
Here’s a trailer for the film Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan and set to be released on July 16, 2010. It’s short, so feel free to watch it all if you want to, but the specific scene I’d like to bring your attention to starts at 0:42.
I recently got on a kick of old educational games: The Learning Company‘s Super Solvers series, MECC‘s DinoPark Tycoon, etc. One game I started playing is Sierra‘s The Island of Dr. Brain, the only of the four Sierra-developed Dr. Brain titles that I never played while growing up. The first two games in the series, […]
Words that you cannot say on TNT: “shit” (including but not limited to the derivation “bullshit”) “goddamn” Words that you can say on TNT: “nigger” Now, I’m not going to say that this is related to the fact that TNT is headquartered in Georgia, but [redacted]
Submission to the practice problem of the 17th Annual University of Evansville High School Programming Contest:
a detailed look at Digg and the 0F… processing key fiasco
This is the result of playing the same game for nine consecutive days. Never again. If you want a poorly illustrated map of my performance, I also took photos after days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
I don’t feel like reporting anything else substantial right now, so here’s a picture of a sign I took at a rest stop: