Well, just one more day of work to go before a fortnight of Not Doing Very Much can begin. Some may argue that I’ve spent much of my life performing that particular activity. I would respond at length to those sort of people but, frankly, it sounds like too much effort. I will be away…
Category: Interesting..?
Something something dark side
Well, it seems that many others are watching this, so you may as well see it too. I can certainly vouch for its authenticity but I haven’t a clue how a full console build gets out into the wild. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJfc4bAiByM Now that’s what I call an unfinished game. My favourite bug during development were the overscaled Ewoks on…
Did you know..?
It’s been over a year since I made a post on my own site. Fascinating.
iCat
That’s one way to clean the fingermarks off the screen! gamesforcats.com
Hacked off
The headlines both on and offline seem to be increasingly littered with the doings of hackers. These digital rapscallions dashing to and fro, performing acts of daring like some cyberpunk Zorro. It’s all so gosh darn romantic. Certain readers may have spotted that koffdrop.com itself was hacked recently. Apparently the site was targetted and labelled…
In the good old days..
..the internet was filled with racists and bigots that would spew their idiocy behind a cowardly wall of anonymity. Today, a lot of them boldly do it on Facebook. Click the pic for the full-sized insult.
An Open Letter to Those That Write Open letters on Websites
Dear Self Important Idiot, If I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s the importance of good communication. Discussing your concerns with people that have no means to address them is nothing more than moaning. Dressing up a rant as an open letter is merely an effort to legitimise your verbiage as something more than…
Snippets
Neither game related, both scooped up to me via my RSS feeds: Tokyo introduces manga restrictions Tokyo has banned the sale and lease of anime films and manga comics depicting rape, incest and other sex crimes to under-18s. Call me crazy, but I would have thought that the distribution of sort of material would have…
It’s funny because it’s true
GJAIF
My new favourite acronym, standing for: Games Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits Clearly I’m so far behind the times that GJAIF is so hip and cool with the kids it even has its own site: A catalogue of the stupid, incompetent, and generally retarded things gaming journalists say and do. We dedicate time every day to…