Jay Barnson on anti-videogame legislation:
What he said.
I’ll take Lara Croft over Janice Joplin any day. (And I don’t even LIKE Tomb Raider.)
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I wanted to take the file format of a late 90s shooter and read it in modern-day Unity. This is the result.
Overthinking Zombies
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Programming Vexations
Here is a 13 part series where I talk about programming games, programming languages, and programming problems.
Video Compression Gone Wrong
How does image compression work, and why does it create those ugly spots all over some videos and not others?
The Best of 2015
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Well I can see his point. Janice Joplin can scare even the manliest of men.
On the other hand, I really do treasure her recording of “Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
Doesn’t she spell it Janis? Or was that just a “70’s thing?” Stupid music radicals, don’t even know how to spell their own names… Oh well, misspelled names are better than what we got in the 90’s:
“The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.”
She doesn’t spell it any way at all anymore; she died of a heroin overdose before you were born.
I may be ignorant of no-talent musicians (for reasons I won’t go into now, I’m much more familiar with Motown during that era), but 1970 was well after I was born. Since I was thinking she was still active a few years ago, I probably had her mixed up with Joan Baez.
Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend,
Do it in the name of heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
But on the bloody morning after….
One tin soldier rides away.
And that’s memory, not Google. Just don’t ask me what I had for dinner last Wednesday…no idea.
I utterly, utterly loathed “One Tin Soldier.” Thanks for dredging up the memory. That wasn’t Joan Baez, though, but some abomination called “Coven.” (Baez might well have covered it; it’s stridently preachy enough to appeal to a certain kind of flake.)
What amuses me most of this post is that you didn’t even spell “Lara Croft” right. Shows just how much you care about it. xD
Spelling error fixed.
Shamus I come from the future to let you know that you do end up liking Tomb Raider! Spooky fade out.