{"id":842,"date":"2006-12-31T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=842"},"modified":"2006-12-31T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T08:20:07","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m missing out. Last week I didn’t touch this blog except to trade comments and clean the spam filter. Pretty much all of the posts were pre-written, which really saved me from leaving a week-long gap on this thing.<\/p>\n

But while I was writing four or five miles of code, I was missing out on a ton of stuff: <\/p>\n

The big thing I missed was Steven’s bit on Linux Standardization<\/a>. This thing made my spider sense tingle about ten different times. There were so many things to say and so many ideas to tackle that I ended up having a paradox of choice<\/a> and saying nothing.<\/p>\n

Fledgling Otaku put up a great Holiday Greeting<\/a>. Back at you, man. He also linked to this funny YouTube bit on the Wii vs PS3<\/a>. (Warning: This thing is a little daring. If you come from a formal office you might want to give it a pass. Better safe than sexy.)<\/p>\n

Back at the beginning of December Cineris posted this bit<\/a> from the Unreal Tournament forums, imploring the designers to take the game back to its roots and recapture the incredible fun of the original Unreal Tournament. I have a bunch of thoughts on this, but I never took the time to cobble them together into something readable. I will say this: The original author is spot-on. I have all of the Unreal Tournamant games here, but whenever friends come over for a little LAN gaming, it’s no contest. We play UT99 every time. The game is almost eight years old, and even up against brand-new games with the fancy pixels, it’s still no contest. Like the PS3 vs the Wii, raw technology is no match for compelling gameplay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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