T w e n t y S i d e d
Jay Barnson, in talking about the difficulty in rating open-ended videogames, has this to say:
After all, how WOULD the ESRB rate, say, the Star Trek holodeck?
Geeze. I bet Riker has a few password-protected holodeck programs that would make Larry Flynt blush.
He also has some great observations on Oblivion. Read the whole thing.
Overused Words in Game Titles
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
Revisiting a Dead Engine
I wanted to take the file format of a late 90s shooter and read it in modern-day Unity. This is the result.
Are Lootboxes Gambling?
Obviously they are. Right? Actually, is this another one of those sneaky hard-to-define things?
Crash Dot Com
Back in 1999, I rode the dot-com bubble. Got rich. Worked hard. Went crazy. Turned poor. It was fun.
The Best of 2013
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2013.
Ayup. Flower-picking simulator is about right.
(Goes back to copying blogs from DoSed server to the one that just has a flaky boot drive…)
(Goes back to copying blogs from DoSed server to the one that just has a flaky boot drive…)
I swear, mu.nu is the website equivalent of the Millenium Falcon.
Yeah, well. It’s better than the old server. Hardware RAID-1. Both drives failed at the same time.
I dunno about Ryker, but Lt. Barclay sure must have. We saw a couple of them, in fact.
I dunno about Ryker, but Lt. Barclay sure must have. We saw a couple of them, in fact.
This is why it is always important to clear program history (and mop up) after using the holodeck.
BTW: Barclay was my favorite Star Trek character. He wasn’t one of the relentlessly beautiful, talented, highly-motivated super-people. He had flaws. He was far more real to me than most of the main characters.
Yeah, there were times when he was painful to watch, because I empathized with him too much. The one episode where he got to cut loose as a super-genius was funny, just for contrast.
Gotta agree with you, Shamus… Barclay was the only character with flaws (at least until one achieved the rank of Starfleet admiral and went insane) in the entire series. Most of the rest of the plastic, perfect people never really interested me, and I think it’s one of the reasons I never got into TNG very much. Other than Barclay, the only characters that seemed human were the ones who weren’t.