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State of fear.
The wheel that was stopped begins to turn. The time that was frozen starts to thaw.My family moved from California in 1986, the year of the Challenger disaster. I don't remember much about the time we spent in California, but I do remember that. What I didn't know is how that event affected Vandenberg AFB and the surrounding area. Prior to ( Read more... ) -
Sphere break.
So, let's say that you, like Kaiji, had an opportunity to gamble on a pachinko machine. You fire small metal balls into a pinball-like machine, hoping that one of them falls into the jackpot hole, which wins you...more balls. Sounds stupid, but when you consider that these pachinko balls are convertible to cash, it might not seem so. And at 4000 ( Read more... ) -
The point of it all.
Zawa zawa, y'all. I'm here to talk about Kaiji some more. We have our first gamble of the second season, Chinchirorin. It's a dice game where the object is to beat other players by rolling better hands. The variant in Kaiji has some different rules. Here are the rolls in order of priority from highest to lowest ( Read more... ) -
Compounding Interest.
I haven't written a blog post in a very long time. So, let's talk about Kaiji. Specifically, the first episode of the new, second season. More specifically, how Kaiji deals with money, interest, and payments ( Read more... ) -
Words.
I've been reading a lot of articles by Tim Rogers on Kotaku lately. The man is insane. He writes long, novella-like articles about video games, Japan and its culture, and a whole host of other things that somehow manage to tie back into video games. I have no idea how this man's mind works. Maybe it's because he up and moved to Japan to work in ( Read more... ) -
Henhouse Surprise.
I'm not sure when the X-Games died in my mind. I remember staying up until the early morning, watching events such as Street Luge and Sky Surfing on ESPN 2 ( Read more... ) -
Return of the MAC.
It's been a few months since I touched this thing, but I figured that with a change of scenery, the time was right to begin again...again ( Read more... ) -
Immigration.
Monsters vs. Aliens is a singularly American movie.
MvA could not have been realized by any other country than the USA: not produced by, not set in, and not reflective of. The culmination of 50 or so years of culture has been distilled into an hour-and-a-half movie, with an option for 3-D ( Read more... ) -
Multiplex.
Just a list of movies I'm thinking of going to in the coming months ( Read more... )