The year is 2020 and Logan is at college. His parents are doing their best to return to some sort of normalcy, but it’s strange without their son.
Logan comes to stay over weekends and is consistently met with the sort of thought out meals he’d usually think of as birthday dinners. There is no takeout to be seen, just roasted potatoes, homemade lasagnas, and everything else he knows his mom and dad can cook.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: The Plague”
This week I am succumbing to a Slay the Spire addiction which is fine and normal and I do not have a problem.
What are you guys up to?
When I proposed this week’s article, I believed it would be a break from retrogaming content. Not that retrogaming is the only thing I ever intend to write about, or ever DO write about, but I feel my retrogaming setups are still in a state of “incompleteness.” Some recent AI news has been on my mind, though; and considering I’m a Gen-X’er, my “get off my message board!” instinct was being triggered. However, it wasn’t until I started fleshing out what I was going to talk about that I realized retrogaming was actually an important part of the story, or at least the news item I wanted to talk about. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Retrogaming and AI – A Surprising Tangent”
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– Shamus, Monday Nov 27, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XXXIV: Let’s Make A Deal”
The year is 2020 and Logan’s bags are packed for college. He gets his syllabus, his books, and his parents drop him off at his new dorm. He’s only living an hour away, so visiting over the weekend is doable if he likes. His dorm is small, but he’s excited to be moving in and exploring the campus. His mom and dad offer to take him to dinner before they leave, and he agrees, but they can tell he wants to be doing other things. He has an entire new space to explore, and he’s a social guy. They ask him if they can get a rain check on dinner, instead ensuring he’d at least visit that weekend.
They’re getting weepy on the drive home when their phones start going off rapid-fire. Kelly panics for a moment, before discovering that Logan is texting the both of them pictures of campus and things he’s excited about. The café, a selfie with an office manager, the library, an instructional walkthrough of using a home computer, circa 1976, followed by about sixteen laughing emojis. This doesn’t stop them from being weepy, but it does put some of their fears aside. Logan is a smart young man, and they can experience a bittersweet mixture of pride and sadness together as a couple. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: The Empty Nest”
This week I am mortified to find I have forgotten to schedule this post. When I am not making an oops, I am playing the new Phasmaphobia update, which may account for my forgetting to do anything else. It’s still pretty buggy, but with 66% more equipment it’s a lot of stuff to explore. It’s neat.
What are you guys up to?
This will probably be a short update. I’ve done some re-configuring and reassessing of goals. Plus, my WiiU SD card spontaneously de-formatted itself (surely the fact that I was non-stop transferring Wii games 25GB at a time for three days straight had NOTHING to do with it). I had all my 8-16bit games on the SD card, so at this very moment I’m working on re-doing those systems through RetroArch for WiiU, which will hopefully allow me to transfer all the ROMS to the hard drive instead of keeping them on the SD Card. You guys should have the answer by the time I get to the end of this week’s article.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “An Experiment in Retrogaming – Oops, Reassessments, and Future Plans”
What was the problem with the Playstation 3 hardware and why did Sony build it that way?
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
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.
As someone who loves Tolkein lore and despises silly MMO quests, this game left me deeply conflicted.
A novel-sized analysis of the Mass Effect series that explains where it all went wrong. Spoiler: It was long before the ending.
This mess of dross, confusion, and terrible UI design is the storefront the big publishers couldn't beat? Amazing.
A programming project where I set out to make a Minecraft-style world so I can experiment with Octree data.
People were so worried about the boring gameplay of The Old Republic they overlooked just how boring and amateur the art is.
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