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A room full of nothing
I've been sitting on a pile of legacy hardware for a decade. I built this pile with time and money, with an intention of doing something with it. Not sure what - make it useful again, perhaps ( Read more... ) -
Trying to see what they saw
Dad found some 8mm / 16mm film in the basement and had it encoded digitally. He went in blind - he had no real idea of what any of it was. We've been watching some of it now over christmas. Plenty of footage (literally footage!) of me and my sister as kids, but what was more interesting was film my father's father and my mother's father had shot. ( Read more... ) -
Things I'm afraid of (work)
After some years working in IT, these things make me feel deeply uneasy ( Read more... ) -
Why AAA games are uninteresting
I was discussing games and the games industry with a friend of mine - he started making his own game after The Secret World launched and half of Funcom got laid off. ( Astrobase Command, check it out.The games industry is stratifying into a couple of major categories: indie, mobile, social, and AAA. (am I missing any here?) The only category I have ( Read more... ) -
training update
Got tired of weightlifting so I've switched over to more calisthenics. I still do (the) two compound exercises: squats and deadlifts, but only with 100kgs, and try to see how many reps I can do in one go. So far I can do 100kg x 44 reps deadlifts in just under two and a half minutes, and 100kg x 24 reps squats. It is horrible. My goal is 100kg x ( Read more... ) -
Dark Souls
I'm almost two years late to this party, but I'm glad I made it.
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Memories of Firewire
During spring cleaning aka "the great nesting" I dealt with a tangle of wires occupying half the dining room table. It's now been broken up into categories and mostly stored. One pile entering permastorage is the pile of Firewire-cables. I had about a DOZEN Firewire-cables in there. I am down to ONE device that uses Firewire - my studio sound card ( Read more... ) -
The problem with the beggar problem
The media is painting a grim picture of this coming summer, terrifying us with nightmare visions of an invasion of Romani beggars, numbering in their thousands. They will descend upon our city and make nuisances of themselves. What will the police do? What will the politicians do? It's a hot-button clusterfuck of a topic where everyone involved has ( Read more... ) -
How to fuck up an established games IP: SimCity Edition
SimCity 2013 launched a couple of days ago, and oh boy. It does not seem to have gone very well. I'm gonna take a look. Very important disclaimer: I have not played this game. Something I share with many people who've actually bought the game (more on this later).
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Stuck in the 80s no more
I've had some pretty crippling 80s nostalgia which started up in 1996 while I was in high school. I shared my longing for the 80s with DMA, who was one of my best friends, and he totally got it. Since we're in this post-scarcity of information age, I've hunted down all pop culture ephemera I heard or saw during the 80s which has any kind of ( Read more... )