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Netscape 1997
What did web browsers look like 20 years ago, and what kind of crazy features did they have?
The Best of 2019
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Silent Hill Origins
Here is a long look at a game that tries to live up to a big legacy and fails hilariously.
Video Compression Gone Wrong
How does image compression work, and why does it create those ugly spots all over some videos and not others?
Trusting the System
How do you know the rules of the game are what the game claims? More importantly, how do the DEVELOPERS know?
This is probably my favourite panel
Blown up in very high definition you can clearly see John Rhys-Davies’ skull prosthesis. The skin tone and wrinkles don’t match in a straight line. Somebody in the upscale should’ve caught that.
(on further thought, just to clarify; I don’t mean TwentySided should have caught it, I mean when the movies were upscaled beyond the original release resolution it should have been caught before they put the Blu-rays out.)
Following a plot in an RPG campaign can be difficult, since you’re playing for a few hours periodically. Depending on schedules, that could be once a month or so.
Try reading the next chapter of a book once a month and see whether it’s easy to keep track.
It’s harder if you’re not really interested in the plot, and the names are long, strange to your ear and often start with the same letter. Oh, and the teller of the story is changing it on the fly to keep up as people in the audience drop out and others come in.
I think it’s fair to compare this to a storyteller, rather than the referee of an RPG campaign. The ref here is trying really hard not to let the players derail his plot.