I'm taking some days off from the blog due to being depressed as fuck to the point of feeling physically ill. The worst is past; getting better, slowly. This is going to mean skipped posts. Come back on February 1st, I promise a good old-fashioned art post that day ( Read more... )

I was one post away from putting the blog back on track, but no. It just doesn't work like that, apparently. Combination of sloth and a wave of depression due to some IRL nonsense (it really is nonsense: don't worry about me). Worried sick about some stuff, been putting off a trivial phonecall for almost a month now due to being scared shitless of ( Read more... )

It has become shockingly obscure, that's what. It is nothing short of my duty to speak out about it.

Here it is on IGN, if you doubt the game's existence or something. It was a very early project by Southpeak Interactive, a game which was developed as a marketing prong to accompany the high-budgeted Wild Wild West movie. Despite being panned by ( Read more... )

I highly encourage you to explore topics which are close to my heart over here. It's the site of Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute. Don't get worked up, it sounds impressive but it's actually a small joint at the University of Oxford philosophy faculty ( Read more... )

What the hell is this crap, I'm already well-underway to generating a brand new monster backlog of posts in 2010... That's no good. Mustn't fade away into that good night, no.

Well, here's some filler. See Tale of Tales, a scratchware Belgian game development studio. Their projects emphasize artistic presentation - not gameplay (that is to say, ( Read more... )

Days ago, a strong earthquake hit Haiti. I don't normally give a damn about localized disasters, but it's hard not to give a damn about this one because everyone is going completely nuts over it. France is canceling Haitian debts, half a billion dollars from Europe accompanying that; US is sending thousands of troops, celebrities have sent millions ( Read more... )

I was initially going to post about a dream where a Deagle-like gun (with a little bayonet, no less) figured as an item - but the dream was overall stupid, so I'll just nix that. I want to talk a little bit about this abomination. Actually, go watch this review by a satisfied owner first.

The Deagle is very popular. It has appeared in a whole mess ( Read more... )

Been searching for the damned thing since at least 2008. Honest. ISBN 4-57-529579-5, it's for sale nowhere and it's for download in even fewer places.

What it is happens to be a 100+ page concept art book from the creators of The Big O. It's keenly relevant to my interests due to being very retrofuturist in a style I refer to as "raygun gothic"; ( Read more... )

Stumbled upon something fun, wanted to share. Future GI, as envisioned in 1959. It was the topic of a /k/ thread on the 15th, which is when this post is actually getting written. See here for a condensed illustration lifted from that thread, including the stuff from that Modern Mechanix blog. Also, two more images, in color (are these from a ( Read more... )

Today sucked bigtime. You see, it would appear that I have developed lactose intolerance at some point. This came as a rather nasty surprise given that I really pigged out on milk the day before and today; it wasn't pretty. Excruciating pain for hours, accompanied by puke and general suffering. Combined with having been awake for over twenty-four ( Read more... )