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RPharazon asks, “Programming work, a Gmod comic, a video LP, a normal LP, a weekly column, a healthy family. HOW DO YOU FIND THE TIME?”
I’ll add to that list the fact that feeding the blog, Stolen Pixels, and Shamus Plays requires an overhead of gaming time each week.
So… how do I find the time?
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Ask Me a Question: Productivity”
The problems with the Shire Post are explained.
This week we finally cave to public demand and share our thoughts on organic produce. We also critique an execution and discuss the other uses for Omni-gel.
You will never guess which comic trope I use in today’s comic.
Jack was a big part of the Mass Effect 2 marketing campaign. This marketing campaign:
(Warning, bad language and banality.)
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My first impression of the character was more or less: Oh look, it’s space-Morrigan. Only more annoying and with a more preposterous top. (How does that thing stay in place? Are we to believe that a mass effect field is being used to secure her you’re-wearing-that-wrong set of suspenders?) Just what the franchise needed. A venom-spewing nihilistic nutjob to give the series the dose of “more badass and stupid” that fans [of other games] have been clamoring for.
But it turns out that my first impression was wrong.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Mass Effect 2: Jack”
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Trek Online is a candidate for my next Shamus Plays series. I’m not playing the game in a serious way just yet. We’ve got a few weeks left with Lulzy, but I wanted to clock some time with STO so that I’ll have a few weeks to think about how the series will go.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Now Playing: Star Trek Online”
For those of you sick of the elevator & loading screen discussion, you’ll be glad to know that we’re back to slagging the Mako instead. Also, chest-high walls, plot-driven doors forcefields, and blackjack-style number puzzles make an appearance. It’s like the all-star edition of gaming tropes!
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
It's not a legend. It was real. There was a time before DLC. Before DRM. Before crappy ports. It was glorious.
A music lesson for people who know nothing about music, from someone who barely knows anything about music.
Why make millions on your video game when you could be making HUNDREDS on frivolous copyright claims?
Deus Ex Mankind Divided was a clumsy, tone-deaf allegory that thought it was clever, and it managed to annoy people of all political stripes.
Lists of 'best games ever' are dumb and annoying. But like a self-loathing hipster I made one anyway.
Few people remember BioWare's Jade Empire, but it had a unique setting and a really well-executed plot twist.
It seems like a simple question, but it turns out everyone has a different idea of right and wrong in the digital world.
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
Denuvo videogame DRM didn't actually kill piracy, but it did stop it for several months. Here's what we learned from that.
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