I like to think that I”m a reasonably empathetic person. That I can usually see where someone else is coming from and why they are doing what they are doing. It doesn’t stop me from thinking they are ill advised or making mistakes when they do those things, but I can usually get it. I [...]
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Elder Scrolls Replay: Arena (part 1)
August 14, 2011 – 11:55 am
For a moment, something breaks me out of what I’m doing, and I realize that I’m leaning forward, chewing on my upper lip. My right hand is glued to my mouse and my left on the ever-popular WASD keys, which I spent half an hour mapping. On the screen is a horribly pixellated dungeon. My [...]
I’ve Seen This Scam Before
March 16, 2011 – 8:52 am
There are a lot of people who really want to be published authors. They’ll do just about anything to be one, and that opens them up to scam artists and other people who desire to take advantage of them. There are people who pose as literary agents, taking fees from authors to represent them, when [...]
RIFT Travelogue
February 21, 2011 – 12:25 pm
So, I mostly ignored RIFT because of the Pen and Paper game of similar name. I was told through Twitter that it wasn’t the same, then that it used a “skill based” system that made it different enough from the other Fantasy MMOs out there, that I decided to sign up for the beta, a [...]
Ada Lovelace Day
March 24, 2010 – 11:08 am
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, and I pledged over a month and a half ago to write a post about a woman in technology and science who inspired me. I’m a programmer by trade, and inclination; writing is important to me as well, but even that is centered around programming and technology issues. Ultimately, there [...]
Sorry Folks
February 5, 2010 – 3:34 pm
My self-indulgent character diary will have to wait until next week. I’m in a heavy coding phase, and learning all kinds of fun stuff. If you have an HTML5 capable browser, check out my slightly sluggish character colorizer test. (Image by Corvus). Also: it is snowing like a thing that snows way too much. Going [...]
Darksiders First Impressions
February 3, 2010 – 9:10 am
Borderlands plot — at least as far as I’ve gotten into it — is largely non-existent. I’ve gotten several quests to kill some dudes, and a ghost lady that suggest I should do these quests to kill some dudes. I’m pretty good at killing dudes, and that seems fun. Darksiders plot is much more [...]
Transgression
January 12, 2010 – 9:10 am
Transgression in its primary sense is the violation of a moral law or duty. It can also be more generally defined as “the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit”, according to one of The Free Dictionary.com’s sources. The primary sense, therefore, is a specific case where the boundaries and limits are [...]
2010 Goals
January 4, 2010 – 11:17 am
I don’t like making resolutions. Resolutions always feel sort of wishy-washy and vague, and it’s either hard to do them, or hard to know whether or not you’ve done them. “Write more” as a resolution would make sense for me, but what does that mean, exactly? Last year (I think it was in March) I [...]