No Diecast this week. Although if things go to plan, I’ll be on the Eh! Steve! podcast later this week. Chris and I have been trying to make this happen for over a month now, but scheduling conflicts have gotten in the way.
Anyway, here are some topics I was going to talk about on the show…
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Diecast Unplugged #5: Voxel Tycoon and Windows Update”
Factorio. I played Factorio. A reasonable person could say that perhaps I played too much Factorio. I don’t know. I’m not a reasonable person and I don’t have time to argue about it because I’m too busy trying to scale up my power plant and solve the traffic jams my trains keep creating.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “This Week I Played (April 2021)”
Here is another podcast for you to enjoy while cowering indoors and waiting for the current mess to blow over. Or I suppose you could enjoy it while jogging. Or at work. Or during class. Or at a funeral. Whatever. Do what you like. I’m not the boss of you.
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Show notes: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Diecast #340: YouTube Killed the Video Star”
I’ve been taking walks lately, trying to make sure I get enough exercise to keep my hypertension at bay. I hate walking for its own sake, but I’ve found I can stimulate the “getting things done” part of my brain if I can turn the walk into an errand. There’s a store about a fifteen minute walk from here, so every day I look around the house, find some random household item we’re low on, and then hike to the store and buy it.
Technically the errand is pointless. If we’re low on obscure and rarely-used item, then I don’t really need to hike to the store to buy more. I could simply add it to the shopping list and we’d get it with the weekly groceries. Walking to the store for a single item is a silly ritual, but it really does help motivate me. My overall goal is “keep my heart in shape so I don’t die”. That’s a very long-term goal where progress is measured over the course of months or even years. It’s a bit demoralizing to get home from a walk all tired and out of breath, flop down in my chair, and realize I just made 0.001% progress towards my goal. Being able to come home and say, “Hey, we were out of cumin but I took care of it,” is far more rewarding. I wonder what the cashier thinks of the odd man that comes in every morning to do his grocery shopping one item at a time.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Being Okay in the Age of COVID”
It’s Monday, which means you get another hour of my droning voice and stumbling digressions. And also Paul, when he’s not giving me the silent treatment. This week we’re talking about Starcraft 2 tournaments in the age of COVID, Neverout, and Six Days in Fallujah.
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Yes, it is April first. I normally change the background or color scheme of the site, but I didn’t think of it in time this year. Still, I wouldn’t want to send you out on the internet today without your usual April 1st warning: Careful what you read. It’s probably even more untrue than usual.
So… it feels like we’re short on content these days, doesn’t it? I’m still finishing up my book. My wife has started a new job. We’ve been busy shopping for a replacement car and getting rid of the husk of the old. These various things have eaten into the hours I normally spend doing MY ACTUAL JOB. Where does the time go?
Also, maybe I’ve squeezed in a few minutes of Factorio here and there. You know. In those occasional moments when I should be sleeping, exercising, or working. That kind of thing. I found a few mods that really tickle my fancy, so I’ve spent a few hours having that thoroughly tickled.
The book now has a cover. Check it out:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Mess Effect”
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Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Diecast #338: Midnight Mailbag”
People were so worried about the boring gameplay of The Old Republic they overlooked just how boring and amateur the art is.
Yes, this game is loud, crude, childish, and stupid. But it it knows what it wants to be and nails it. And that's admirable.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Here is a 13 part series where I talk about programming games, programming languages, and programming problems.
Here are 6 reasons why I forbid political discussions on this site. #4 will amaze you. Or not.
What was the problem with the Playstation 3 hardware and why did Sony build it that way?
Why is internet news so bad, why do people prefer celebrity fluff, and how could it be made better?
For one of the most popular casual games in existence, Match 3 is actually really broken. Until one developer fixed it.
Crysis 2 has basically the same plot as Half-Life 2. So why is one a classic and the other simply obnoxious and tiresome?
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
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