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I’ve been deeply upset about an article going around about the UHC shooter, which suggests Luigi Mangioni was radicalized by pain.

There are enough people who are going to be at PTG that I felt it was useful to put my attendance plan somewhere shareable.

I’ve been sitting on the doomsday.watch domain name for some years now, and recently I started keeping track of the interesting articles I read in a month.

In no particular order, except potentially how much I listened to them, here are my favorite albums of 2023.

Step 1 Get annoyed at streaming services removing content that you have as a dvd.

I often found Ubisoft to be a weird place, but nothing was more weird than Ubisoft Montreal’s hiring practices in the late aughts.

When I was seven years old, I watched Challenger explode on live TV.

Last week, I had a revelation while I was on vacation.

I love Super Metroid.

First, a preface: I have been waiting for Final Fantasy Tactics on iPad for a long time.

I’ve been interested in procedural generation in games for a while, so when Notch’s entry for Ludum Dare 22 (Minicraft) was released, along with the source code, I went spelunking.

Something I’d like to see is a move to shorter games.

Note: This post contains minor spoilers for the movie Inception.

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One of the topics I like to talk about in my work, is how we are, in general, only using our vocabulary as game designers to express literal conflict.

Choice has always been a finicky thing in games, and how developers have consistently used choice has trained gamers to react to it in a certain way.

Bejeweled has been around a long time.

Eve-Online has one of the deepest and most intricate combat systems I’ve ever seen.

It’s funny how as a long time gamer, I sometimes take things for granted.

I am a pretty big and unabashed Popcap Games fan.

Darksiders is a fairly by-the-numbers 3rd person action game in the style of God of War / Devil May Cry.

So, Left 4 Dead is pretty cool.

On one hand, you are a great game.

So, I’ve been playing Mass Effect lately.

(Note, the following are my own personal opinions, and not those of Ubisoft) So, I’d always figured Assassin’s Creed would end up being a love it or hate it kind of game.

Before I get in to this post, let me say that despite my skepticism about the Wii, I did hope that when I finally got to play, controller(s) in hand(s), it would feel perfectly natural, and everything Nintendo claimed it would be.

I’ve been playing Gears of War sporadically over the past week.

Neverwinter Nights 2 is the prime example of what happens when you give a bunch of green developers a big game to do, with not enough people and/or time.