The site is getting slammed presently due to the Portal piece generating more traffic than my server has connections to serve. I’ve looked into upgrading the account, but it’s not a bandwidth thing, it’s a connections issue. Game-ism is pretty much suffering from a live unintentional DoS attack. I doubt it’s going to improve much [...]

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Thanks to the great comments in my last post where I waxed all philo about what I think GlaDOS is supposed to look like, I think I’ve changed my tune on why GlaDOS wanted to be free. While I still think she wanted to be free, the only way she could truly be free was [...]

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The first time I saw GlaDOS in Portal, I was overcome with a distinct sensation that I was in the presence of someone in pain. Troubled. At the very least, immense frustration. At first I wasn’t sure if it was the gyrations of the physical construct of GlaDOS, or if it was the tone of [...]

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As a service for content distrubution, it’s a wonderful thing. But it seems that at least once a week it is directly in the way of my enjoyment of playing my games.  Tonight’s issue?  Steam servers being updated, so my “Steam Ticket” was in a constant state of being “invalid.” How many years has this [...]

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