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As the release of Dark Souls approaches, I've of course been trying to wrap up my Demon's Souls playthrough.

PAX was a glorious thing.

Boring title, I know.

The boy stood up slowly, his head swimming a bit as if from some fall, though he didnt remember anything like that.

Author's note, from the year 2026: 15 years after writing this blog post I see glaring errors in this code.

Lately we've seen people talking about linear games, which are a type of restriction, and certain techniques that unshackle the player (say, from gravity).

No daring exploits from Demon's Souls this time.

About a week more, and I still haven't given up on Demon's Souls.

Almost a year ago, I got and tried playing Demon's Souls.

In this paper, we propose a set of categories for the classification of multiplayer experiences in games, that is, the kind of games where you might have a "P2" (i.e.

I left the country for about a week and a half in April.

Warning: contains spoilers for Portal (not Portal 2).

"In God's name, but these be obstinate and fierce adversaries," uttered the elderly thane, standing at the high battlements of his fortress.

If you know me at all, you know exactly what this blog is going to be about.

I'll let you in on a little secret.

My cat is a weirdo.

...demons slay you!

I don't often have ideas about games, which is, I guess, unfortunate, seeing as how I possess the power to realize them if I wanted to.

Two years ago we moved out of a house we were renting and into a house we bought with our own money dollars.

Borderlands is both an interesting and an uninteresting game at the same time.

I'm sorry to get your hopes up, but this is not at all about A Boy and His Blob.

I have finally joined the ranks, alongside my buddy Beyamor, of those who have finished Halo: Reach alone on Legendary difficulty.

It's been a while since my last post, which is kind of the default state of things on most blogs, so I don't know why I even bother saying it.

Drawn by the allure of a cheap indie game that I'd heard about from several sources before, I picked up VVVVVV last week.

Last week I prepared for PAX.

Roughly, it means, "if you seek games, prepare for PAX."

My love of Xbox may have started probably about 8 years ago when I was a dumb college kid.

I recently got a Playstation 3, and now that I own all three of the current generation systems, I'm finally able to bang out this post in good conscience, in which I document my love for the Xbox 360 and my not-love for the other systems.

I've been playing a good amount of Geometry Wars 2 lately.

Today at work, I needed to try out some Javascript code in a test wrapper around Internet Explorer.

I pulled up to the traffic light and braked slowly.

I read Wrenchfarm's excellent musing post about guilt and games, and it reminded me of things I think about too.

The great debate got me thinking about Mass Effect... as if I weren't already, heh.

I just recently finished playing Mass Effect 2.

In my previous blog about Bayonetta, I mentioned some of the unlockables.

I have played a ton of Bayonetta in the last several months.

this weekend I was at the san diego zoo. the place is massive, and it took us nearly two full days to see it all. it was fun, but also kind of depressing, as zoos usually are. it's not anything about animals in captivity, really.

I managed to cut my left index finger last night while cutting through some english muffins to make breakfast sandwiches.

this morning I bumped up against the wall of the shower while having my shower. it was cold, and reminded me of my childhood. when I was in maybe first grade, our class took an overnight field trip to the richmond science museum. the place was utterly mag…

How many times do I need to fix hotboot?

In my previous entry, I talked about some ways I tried to increase performance or responsiveness of the MUD.

As usual, it's been quite a while since I've updated with anything on-topic.

Geometry Wars 2 is quite possibly my favorite game in the world, and for someone who plays as many games as I do, that's probably saying something.

I'm now taking an algorithms class for my masters program.

As I was implementing aliases, I started getting better about testing things.

It's not really a secret that I like ramen.

In the previous post, I was talking about the aliases feature, which lets you use short commands to expand to longer ones.

Over the last several weeks (actually, over a month - I just checked svn log) I've been working on implementing aliases.

I play a fair number of games.

I have actually been doing stuff since my last post.