I have a long lasting relationship of frustrated ambivalence when it comes to Sonic. As a kid I borrowed a friend’s Master System to play that system’s port of the first title, and I absolutely, truly enjoyed it. In retrospect I enjoyed it much more than the “real” 16-bit title, and I still feel the [...]
Posts under ‘Thoughts’
Fighting off futility
I read a lot of Lovecraft. If you’re not familiar with his work, his core concept of “cosmic horror” revolves around mankind’s innate ability to blissfully ignore the obvious fact that on a cosmic scale nothing man can do will matter. We are a speck of dust enjoying a lull of quiet in a swirling, [...]
My programming philosophy
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while, but every time i started it felt like i was trying to teach a crowd that already knows better than me, and that’s a level of arrogance beyond even me.
But i can’t help but feel there is something to how i do things that must [...]
HTML5 will save us all from the evils of Flash!
To quote the good sir Keith Peters: ”I like how they think flash = bad, but html5 will do everything flash does, but html5 will be good. Huh?”
Antisocial media
Me and Anders Psychofreud started putting together a messaging application today that i think is totally weird, but for certain reasons really compelling. First a little history.
If you haven’t played Animal Crossing on the DS or Wii, i strongly suggest that you find an opportunity to do so. On its own the game is addictive, [...]
Relationship stuff
Given complaints that my writing typically falls into the camps of
Being happy about video games
Being angry about video games
Video games
Being angry
and also realizing that this is essentially true, i think it’s time to diversify.
I’ve been thinking a lot the past year about what makes a relationship work. I’ve seen friends and their relationships, i’ve reflected [...]
leisure suit larry revival, female protagonists, sexy sexy!
Kotaku pointed me to this excellent interview with LSL series creator Al Lowe, which again directed me to this great summary of the series. Thank you, hypertext markup language, for delivering on your promise.
It’s funny how a franchise as sad and awkward as Leisure Suit Larry can be remembered for being funny. The first LSL [...]
What, Tag’s too dangerous?
(yes i know the formatting here is balls, so what)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html
Man, i grew up in a neighborhood with 2 gangs of highschool kids fighting among themselves, and screw you if you were a 10 year old who wasn’t in family with any of the gang kids. Me and my buddies formed a little gang of [...]
Gall bladder removal
It’s been a year or so since my gall bladder was declared “abnormally damaged” (thanks stressful work and genetics) and had to be removed.
I understand that my case was extreme and that i had little choice in the matter.
What i WILL call foul however, was *every fucking doctor i consulted* assuring me that i would [...]
Winter norway
Soon it’ll be here again..
Think frozen concrete, black overcast skies, freezing cold, heated sidewalks melting the snow into a filthy sludge made worse by the sludge sprayed in by passing traffic (because our government insists oslo is a traffic-centric city, thus puts more emphasis on clear roads than clear sidewalks). Think getting up in the [...]
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