There's an important point I forgot to add to my previous post on empathy ( Read more... )

I know many that consider empathy a universal good. That is, the ability to empathize with another being's suffering, joy, shame or anger is something that unequivocally enriches a person's life. This is particularly true among the chronic emotional reasoners who rely on their ability to empathize as one of the most important pieces in their ( Read more... )

People that have known me a while often ask me why I got into designing video games for a living. I mean, philosophically, i'm completely committed to the cause of destroying what I perceive as the irrational boot that is stepping on humanity's throat, of which video games are a part of. I deeply believe that the human mind is fantastically stunted ( Read more... )

This is roughly how I see my life ( Read more... )

I think i've reached my creative peak these last two months or so. I've just been writing non-stop. I'm starting to get to a point where I think I can slow down and just work on organization, implementation and presentation. It's tough to put down though. When you feel like every week or so produces something major, it becomes addictive. You want ( Read more... )

There's this strange dream I keep having for what must be a few years now. Sometimes it's a sleeping dream and other times it is a waking dream. Sometimes I feel as if I am guiding the dream, and other times I feel as if it just guides itself. But, it's never very far from my thoughts for some reason I can't explain ( Read more... )

I realized today that nothing endears me to a women like her imagination. If she does conversational acrobatics with her peerlessly sharp wit, i'll smolder. If she gives me a devilish wink with a purely angelic face, i'll be caught frozen between breaths. And, if she charms me with her charisma and unmistakable authenticity that is uniquely hers, I ( Read more... )

A group of eight or so very senior guys from Blizzard visited my studio today. My boss told me that they specifically asked for a tour of one my primary systems and to be ready to present it. Being a massive fan of Blizzard, this meant a hell of a lot to me ( Read more... )

I realized today that I had become so used to people visiting my work and dropping by where I sit to talk to me that it no longer struck me as odd ( Read more... )

I read this yesterday about the main feature I worked on in 'Black Ops' and it completely made my day ( Read more... )