T w e n t y S i d e d
Adding to the stuff I said yesterday about anime openings, Pixy Misa has this, and then suggests that this song is catchy. I played it through and I’m not inclined to argue. I think it’s catchy like ebola. I won’t say I liked it, but much like Gollum and the One Ring, I may never be rid of my need of it.
The Brilliance of Mass Effect
What is "Domino Worldbuilding" and how did it help to make Mass Effect one of the most interesting settings in modern RPGs?
Overused Words in Game Titles
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
Push the Button!
Scenes from Half-Life 2:Episode 2, showing Gordon Freeman being a jerk.
Video Compression Gone Wrong
How does image compression work, and why does it create those ugly spots all over some videos and not others?
Diablo III Retrospective
We were so upset by the server problems and real money auction that we overlooked just how terrible everything else is.
Sooo… I listened to that opening thinking “how catchey could it be”. Now my brain won’t quit bleeding.
Just wait for the twitching and the waking nightmares.
Ah, good. I haven’t had any luck doing video capture from my laser discs, so I couldn’t inflict the thing on you properly. Someone out there must have succeeded. :)
I love the show itself, though. 196 episodes, so there’s a lot of filler, but there’s a lot of story too. (Particularly in the first season, which had two 15-minute stories per episode.)