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| 05:50pm 31/10/2009 |
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There is, as far as I can see, genuinely, actually nobody playing Brutal Legend on Xbox Live. This boggles my mind. It is easier to find multiplayer on Doom. That is, the original Doom, available through Xbox Arcade, than Brutal Legend.
Tim Schafer, I love the guy's originality and the way he can drive a game's personality, but my god did he screw this one up. |
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| Dammit, Liberal Blogosphere |
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| 08:36am 27/10/2009 |
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When you say stuff like this, you're risking becoming the exact same sycophantic twits that we rightfully mocked the conservative blogosphere for being during the Bush years.
Let me say it again.
No politician is your friend. Every last one of them can and should be considered your enemy. Some (and Obama is one of them) are enemies we can potentially bend to doing good things. Others we can't. We can and should vote in the former, but we should never, ever trust them or consider them to be on our side.
Politicians are the enemy. Never forget this.
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| 09:46am 22/10/2009 |
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Anyone with The Beatles: Rock Band: The first album is available, Abbey Road. Snatch it up. Remember, the higher the sales, the more likely it is we'll end up with the whole Beatles back catalogue. |
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| A note to both Twitter and Livejournal |
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| 08:29pm 18/10/2009 |
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Is it just now socially acceptable to emit noise pollution on trains with iPhones and other speakers? Are headphones no longer considered socially required? I really am curious. |
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| City Farmers |
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| 08:13am 13/10/2009 |
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When I wrote Tribebook: Glass Walkers Revised, one of the camps I had to deal with were the City Farmers. The previous tribebook had them dismissed as 'retro' and anti-progress, that their goal of bringing a wilderness into the city was against the Glass Walkers' ethos.
I never understood this.
Look at this. This is science fiction reality, right here. This is the kind of stuff I was wanting to bring to that camp. My only regret looking back is that I didn't give them enough credit. They really were one of the best camps the Glass Walkers had, one of the most progressive and interesting. The Cyber Dogs? Screw them. This is what the Glass Walkers were all about here.
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| Yet another reason |
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| 09:03am 28/08/2009 |
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I hate insurance companies. With a burning passion.
Lawyers? Provide a valuable service to the community. I like lawyers. Politicans? Bastards one and all, but they're unfortunately required. Truck drivers? Hate them, but acknowledge the need.
Insurance?
Hate them.
(Politicans also cop flack in this debacle.)
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| Keeping it short to stop obvious jokes |
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| 09:15am 24/08/2009 |
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TL;DR (Too Long; didn't read for those not in the know) is the most heinous bloody idea of the internet. Worse than pwned or teh.
If you couldn't read the whole thing, then shut the hell up. Do not post tl;dr. You lazy short-attention span twits. |
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| 07:04pm 13/08/2009 |
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I don't think I've ever been as depressed as I am tonight. Life just continues to pile on. Soon there will be nothing left. |
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| Splinter Cell: Double Agent for Xbox 360. |
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| 08:31pm 14/06/2009 |
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Man.
Back when this game first came out, the reviews basically said, "Xbox normal version is better, ignore the Xbox 360 version." They criticized the levels in which you played as a double agent within the terrorist's cell, arguing the more traditional approach of Splinter Cell: DA for Xbox worked better. So I grabbed the Xbox one and just played it.
I finally decided to go back and try the Xbox 360 one.
Holy balls. The critics were wrong.
The levels where you're inside the base are what make the game, not what wreck it. They're tense as hell, with infinitely greater chance of discovery and hair-line chances of success. They're fantastically well designed.
OK, let me pull back. The basic premise of Double Agent is, as the title suggests, that you're a double agent within a domestic terrorist organisation named John Brown's Army. You worm your way in by breaking one of their members out of prison, and then the game alternates between your missions for them, and your time at their base. When in the base, you're meant to be training, but you can use this time to complete missions for the NSA, swiftly placing tracking bugs, software backdoors into their data servers, etc. It's unrealistic sure (would a hard-core terrorist cell REALLY run their own data servers?), but it's FUN unrealistic spy stuff. You walk around, smiling and nodding to the other cell members in the zones you're allowed in, and then duck into a side corridor, sneak into restricted zones you're not meant to be in, and accomplish tasks that you're not meant to be doing.
Fantastic. This is great stuff, it feels atmospheric and right. It's a great game. |
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| Facebook: Deactivated. |
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| 06:30am 02/06/2009 |
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I deactived my Facebook.
Why? Because frankly, it's too much work. The damn thing constantly sends friends requests at me. The very thing I think most people like it for (how quickly and accurately it constructs your real-life friends network) is exactly what I hate about it. I mean, geeze. I hate my friends.
Erm, let me try that again.
More accurately, I'm a fairly private guy. I don't want constant contact with all my friends. One thing I like about online communities is how easily I can limit my interactions, until I'm only with the people that make me feel safest.
Facebook is a net tool for popular people. I'm not one of them. |
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| Quick observation from the bus. |
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| 06:23am 22/05/2009 |
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The guy who is driving my bus claims it's a 610 express. This is because he is an inveterate liar. I know for a goddamn fact it's not an express – Or isn't meant to be.
Since this benefits me, I'll happily ride his bus.
But I'll report him anyway. I feel sorry for the people who were hoping to go to Lane Cove this morning. |
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| Weird mechanical though for an RPG |
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| 05:16pm 21/05/2009 |
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Weird mechanical thought: The idea of an RPG system with powersets based on mood, with the idea that characters could actually shift through different moods of play, with either (a) powers shifting accordingly, or (b) As player characters die, new ones are made into the new mood, creating interesting contrasts. |
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| Gruen banned ad. |
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| 07:06am 14/05/2009 |
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Holy cow.
If you're not a Gruen Transfer watcher, I'll give you some context. The Gruen Transfer is a show about advertising, where advertising professions break down advertisements and discuss them by technique and strategy. Every week they do a segment called The Pitch, wherein they give two agencies a brief to 'sell the unsellable'. Usual topics will be "convince people that global warming is a good thing", "sell ice to eskimos" or "promote invading New Zealand amongst Australians".
This week, they chose "convince people that fat is good". If you've not seen a Pitch before, go to the Pitch website and take a look at the other ad. It's typical for the Pitch, and is the kind of stuff that has made me argue passionately for ditching the Pitch. I felt it useless, a fun gag but that's all. Now, once you've watched that, go here, watch this. It's the other ad, the one the ABC refused to air.
First off, this is powerful, confronting stuff. While I wasn't as shocked as some people might have been (I'm hard to shock) it's tough to watch. The Sydney Morning Herald reported there wasn't even 'shocked, nervous laughter' in the audience... which now that we've seen the ad we can tell is exactly right. It's not meant to provoke that. It's meant to provoke anger, it's meant to provoke dislike... and then attach those emotions to shape discrimination.
I think it's staggeringly well made, and the discussion afterwards is top notch. If the Pitch were more like this, I'd defend keeping it on the show. I've only ever seen one other ad on the Pitch as good as this one. (The "Australian Democrats" ad #2). Much as I dislike Russell, I'm with him on this ad. It's powerful, confronting and it took the brief seriously. I think it wins. |
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