June 2008
15 posts
Diablo 3 is going to blow your **** off
Watch the Gameplay Video or Fail Life
Quake Live
Id Software’s John Carmack, one of the worlds most celebrated game makers, projects that Quake Live will have “hundreds of thousands of players, if not millions.” read more | digg story
Solastalgia
I found this term in Seed Magazine this morning. Seems like a word that will be applicable more often now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solastalgia
Solastalgia is a neologism coined by the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht to describe a form of homesickness or nostalgia one gets when still at home. It was coined with particular reference to environmental change in one’s surroundings...
How many Batman movies will there be?
My guess is somewhere around 10 by 2030. Read more for a short clip of a cool animated anime version of Batman.
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Xbox 360: Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming...
Netflix subscribers, if you’ve got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don’t have to shell out $99 for Roku’s Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen
—you already have everything you need. Using the free Windows Media Center plug-in, vmcNetflix, you can turn your Xbox 360 into a Netflix Watch Instantly box.
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Between flippancy and sobriety
One of the things I learned after school that I didn’t know while I was in school is that most people don’t know what they are doing. A lot of things are done on the fly. Many people are in trouble, a position of authority, or pinnacle of their field because of happenstance. With the exception of doctors, lawyers or accountants, I think.
My Dad’s friend, Mark Wumkes, when we...
iPhone Apps
There’s going to be a ton of them and most of them will suck but some of them will be ground breaking for their niche markets.
You heard it here first.
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Last night I was checking out some of the recent demos posted on XBox Live. Unfortunately I checked out Ninja Gaiden 2 and had my memories devalued by a 3D abomination unworthy of the name. Someone named “Team Ninja” published this and actually thought that the speed and timing of the original Ninja Gaiden would translate properly into a 3D world. I wish they would have stuck to the...
Haptophilia: the problem of immersion
Is the road to true digital immersion paved with incremental simulation?
this is interesting:
http://home.novint.com/products/novint_falcon.php
http://gear.ign.com/articles/833/833067p1.html
but still, nothing’s quite so direct:
NWS: http://www.ascensionsuspension.com/extreme/images/rotisserrie%20(1)_jpg.jpg
How to design for yourself for a client
It is very frustrating for me to hear people say “Design for the user.”
In my mind I always am saying “No shit.”
But that doesn’t mean do what the user wants. I still believe in designing for yourself.
Designing for yourself has a bad rap. It does produce a lot of terrible art that passes as design, and it leaves a lot of users thinking “what the hell is this...
Dungeons and Dragons
I got the Dungeon Masters guide book. Expect to see “Level 0 Dungeon Master seeks similarly new D&D players for epic after-hours office dragonslaying” on craigslist soon.
Metallica says blogs cannot review their new album
I’ve heard their new album and it’s terrible. Not even worth pirating.
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iPhone 2.0 is a Rip Off
The price is lowered but the increase in monthly fees equals more!
Sticking with Helio and waiting for a GPhone!
Also: Mobile.me is nothing new. BORING.
Gas Prices
“don’t care”
Customer Service
I just got a new Chase amazon.com visa and had to activate it. After the automatic activation I was connected to a woman with a great british accent. As she was giving me spiel after spiel on balance transfers to identity theft, I lost track of what she was saying and wondered who was this person I was talking to.
I figured she worked in India because I called at 7:40 pm PST and she had a...