This was posted on Facebook by a person whose opinions I do not respect.  I started reading it and got pissed so I'm going to comment on its ideas.  I'm sure everyone has seen this or some varient of it.  It's stupid and narrow-sighted.  So feel free not to read this, that's cool.  I just need to type this out so that I don't let it roll through my ( Read more... )

Videogame post:

E3 was pretty good this year.  It seemed to reclaim its former glory.

Microsoft's press conference was by far the most entertaining (They had the fucking Beatles there).  They have E3 down to an artform now.  This doesn't necessarily speak of the content of their presentation, just the presentation itself.  It was easily the most ( Read more... )

Videogame post:

I've been playing BioShock again recently and having a fantastic time with it.  Then I reached a point in the game that can be modestly described as a chore.  Whenever I look back at the game, I have such fond memories of exploring Rapture.  But I conveniently forget about the last 5th of the game.

The game's first 4/5s or so are ( Read more... )

I've reached somewhat of a crisis.  Picking journalism as a major had always felt like the natural thing to do.  I have passionate interests, and writing about them for some sort of publication always seemed to make sense.  But as I got further into the major, I realized that the major's focus isn't really what I wanted to do.  But I kept telling ( Read more... )

Erika is an awesome girlfriend. 

I'm a nerd, so I read a lot of tech blogs, and there are two things that tech blogs love to talk about: the shotcomings of the PS3 (they blog about this every time NPD numbers are released, even though they have nothing new to say), and digital distribution being the future.  While I generally agree with them about the PS3's shortcomings (except ( Read more... )

Home is a really confusing product for me.  One that's hard for me to really judge because I have no experience in social network environments like Second Life or really anything similar to that ( Read more... )

Um... it's free... so that's cool ( Read more... )

So the NPD numbers are out, and it begs the questions "Sony, what in god's holy name are you doing?"  There is basically a single solution to this problem, and it's so obvious it's retarded.  Lower the fucking price ( Read more... )

The fact that I'm still playing Rock Band several times a week is pretty amazing.  I usually burn through games in a couple weeks and that's about it.  Despite the fact that I may want to play them again, there are always so many other good games I want to play, I'll never get the time to replay a game.

But Rock Band is a platform, not just a game ( Read more... )