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Rather than building elaborate and baroque environments for their fantasies, game designers occasionally opt to make, as Mencken once said of the Martini, an invention as perfect as a sonnet. Using a color scheme, an image, and a song, Robot Unicorn Attack does the same for a simple gameplay scheme. Achieving a perfection rarely seen out of a ( Read more... ) -
Alas, poor Mr. Fluffins
While we imagine that most pets would rather achieve immortality through not dying, the majority that do achieve an afterlife do through loyal works. For the modern pet-lover, a multiplicity of options exist, both elaborate (with the obligatory caveat emptor), to twists on the traditional backyard internment. For the more modernist, advanced ( Read more... ) -
Rishathra
Originally the subject of a controversy so ridiculous even Jack Thompson thought it was silly, Mass Effect included a scene where you got the nasty on with Calamari-Smurf ingenue Liara T'Soni. While Rishathra has been the topic of wishful (and extensive) thinking, singing, and recording by hopeful nerds all around the world. The options in ME2 ( Read more... ) -
memepoolery
Bad Apple is one of the 12-hojillion remixes of music from the semi-obscure Touhou Project games written, composed, programmed, illustrated, designed and marketed by the emaciated alcoholic Japanese enigma otherwise known as ZUN. Fanart of ZUN's products appears to be a shadow industry single-handedly supporting the Japanese economy through the ( Read more... ) -
Note to self
There's been another brouhaha over somebody botching the redaction of a document, in this case a TSA guideline set. The redaction was done by drawing black boxes over text.
One of the major headaches in operational infosec is that properly -secure- procedures are often a PITA and require a certain amount of special training because you have to ( Read more... ) -
A message from the chairman
I reserve the right to wale on anyone who nerd rages at me about Dollhouse's cancellation. You have been warned. -
[Unseen Academicals] Weeping for things that are happening
My general feeling is that in the past 8 years or so, Pratchett's best book was Going Postal, and even then its a book where he has a horrible time maintaining control of the narrative. The problem, now, is that whenever I read one of his books, I'm looking for signs of Alzheimer's writing, I can't read him as Pratchett-The-Author anymore, but as ( Read more... ) -
This evening's heresy
Passenger pigeons and white-tailed deer, the inappropriate vocabulary used to discuss natural selection.
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Since I've been reading Ross King's The Judgment of Paris I decided to take advantage of my NYC location to spend most of saturday browsing museums, in particular the metropolitan museum of art. Historically, I've been bored by the 19th-century rooms in the museum, and spent most of my time in the classical areas, looking at Roman and Egyptian ( Read more... ) -
Morning Musings
One of the oddest problems I have psychologically is the adversarial relationship with structured environments. I joked for a while that one of the major advantages of the last job was that I had a structured environment and well-defined processes that I largely ignored. Unfortunately, the joke is only half-true.
The hardest thing I've found over ( Read more... )
