(This post has been languishing for a couple of weeks now while I allowed myself to be distracted by other games. Here are some of my thoughts on the game overalll, and of the ending.) Previous posts: First Impressions, Followup, Nearing the End.
Spoilers ahead.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Prey: Ending”
Reader Donateller read the D&D campaign I put up and was inpired to draw a picture of the situation in this post.
It’s a pretty big thrill to see our story through the eyes of someone else, so I got a real kick out of this.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings CXXII:
Xtreme Moves”
I saw Transformers this weekend. Spoler-free review follows:
I don’t have much new to add to what has already been said about this movie. Like everyone else I thought this was an overlong movie where everything (everything!) was turned up to eleven and running at 110%. All the time. The dialog was enslaved by the plot, and the stunts went from “that’s kind of hard to believe” to “I don’t believe that for a second” and finally reached the zenith of “that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.”
Director Michael Bay is the sorcerer’s apprentice. He’s got Spielberg’s spellbook, but where Spielberg makes magic, Michael Bay just makes a mess. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Transformers”
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings CXXI:
Blasphemy!”
I’d love to know where this came from:
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My referrers is pretty much made up of the usual suspects. RPG.net. GitP. Home on the Strange. Den Beste. Also, Netvibes, Stumbleupon, et al.
I’ve gotten some visitors from Buzz.mn, which I think is mostly due to me leaving comments at Lilek’s new blog. The biggest referrer is Bloglines, but that is most likely people coming here via their RSS aggregate-o-tron. This means that Bloglines probably isn’t a source of new readers, but an entry point for existing ones. For reasons I can’t comprehend, Livejournal doesn’t even make the top 20. Over half my readers are from LJ, and they are more prone to share a link than just about anyone else. I can only assume the way LJ gives everyone a subdomain (someuser.livejournal.com) diffuses the apparent incoming links.
Anyway, I still can’t see a reason for the spike in traffic. I know no one person knows the answer, but if you’re a new reader (or, now that I think of it, not new) I’d love to know how you found me. I’m very curious what let to the above spike. (Note that the spike is more extreme than it seems – I took the image about five days from the end of June.)
Yes, I’m reposting YouTubes as a way of padding out my meager blog this week. Yeah, I know: You’ve seen better, nobody cares about this meme anymore, everyone already saw this years ago and it was old then, etc etc. In any case, this is an amazing stop-motion video of a couple of guys assembling a Millennium Falcon – including the interior and many moving parts – out of Legos.
I started to write a comment here about how I’m thankful for all of the strange people out there on the internet who toil for my amusement, but halfway through I realized I’m one of those people.
Yikes.
Why spend millions on visuals that are just a distraction from the REAL game of hotbar-watching?
What did web browsers look like 20 years ago, and what kind of crazy features did they have?
This series explores the troubled history of VR and the strange lawsuit between Zenimax publishing and Facebook.
Two minutes of fun at the expense of a badly-run theme park.
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.
Cities: Skylines is bound to have a sequel sooner or later. Where can this series go next, and what changes would I like to see?
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
The plot of this game isn't just dumb, it's actively hostile to the player. This game hates you and thinks you are stupid.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
This Korean title would be the greatest MMO ever made if not for the horrendous monetization system. And the embarrassing translation. And the terrible progression. And the developer's general apathy towards its western audience.
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