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Entries from October 2008

Mirror’s Irony

October 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Awhile back someone made a paintover (embedded above) of what they thought Faith should look like in Mirror’s Edge, that parkouring game that EA’s releasing later this month.  The demo just dropped on PS3 if you’re interested; I think the 360 one drops tomorrow (actually today I guess, it is past midnight here).  There’s been a bunch [...]

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Topping the Charts

October 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well, Guitar Hero: World Tour is out, and hoo lawday, are the reviews all over the place for it.  I don’t normally put a lot of stock in reviews, but I do find it interesting to read into the disparity of them all. It appears, for the most part, that GH:WT is for the “gamer” [...]

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Light Hand Slap of the Bands

October 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Is my band the only one that never gets any real challengers in the Band Challenges in Rock Band 2?  I don’t understand how bands that can only be failing out of songs are allowed to post scores for these challenges. How else are we to explain bands challenging us with a score of 1,400 [...]

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Politics, GTFO

October 14th, 2008 · 13 Comments

I’m not normally one to discuss politics, especially my personal politics, amongst polite company.  Politics in general have become so partisan, polar, and fueled with pointless hateful rhetoric that I wonder if I’m not actually watching some kind of sporting event between bitter long term rivals, rather than people who feel like they should be [...]

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AWESOME Band is Awesome

October 13th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Way back when Rock Band (the first) came out, I saw that someone made some kickass G.I. Joe band-mates, and figured that I’d try and have some fun with the Create-A-Player myself.  After forcing myself to find inspiration (it hardly ever works), I kicked around the idea of making the ultimate band.  One so epic [...]

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We’re all Doomed

October 13th, 2008 · 10 Comments

I’m normally not one to drink the crazy cool-aid and claim that all of our civil liberties are at stake, or that we’re entering a police state, or that the world is coming to an end, but I was sent the following image via email this morning.   I’ve put up a simple side-by-side comparison [...]

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Tags: comedy

Apologies

October 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m currently crunching at work right now, and my brain, it…it has no creativity left in it.  I suppose there’s an entire entry there, how a lack of personal time actually keeps inspiration at an extremely low level, but I’m too tired to write even that.  I’ve been pouring everything I’ve got into some crazy [...]

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Squeeeeeeak squeeak squeak

October 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

I should really be writing one of the two main design pieces I’ve been meaning to post about for the past two weeks.  I should also be playing Mercenaries 2 which I brought home from the work/team library to play a bit to see how they’re handling user chosen missions, and just in general enjoying [...]

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