T w e n t y S i d e d
The latest comic deals with the ongoing siege of the English language perpetrated by the armies of MMOs and txtspeaking.
As a supplement to today’s comic, I present this:
 |
The player took the time to correct his earlier typo, by… making sure he typed out the mangled word as intended. He was only a couple of characters short of “you’re”, which I assume is the word he was groping for.
Why must young people do this to our language? Can’t they just smoke pot and have drunken, unprotected sex like previous generations?
Oh, they do that too? Ah well.
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
The Best of 2015
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Quakecon 2011 Keynote Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Good to be the King?
Which would you rather be: A king in the middle ages, or a lower-income laborer in the 21st century?
Seven Springs
The true story of three strange days in 1989, when the last months of my adolescence ran out and the first few sparks of adulthood appeared.