Fail: Star Trek Online
Posted on | March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
“If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.”
I first heard those words when I complained of being bored in history class in middle school. Being a child of such fortunate circumstance to have been blessed with sharp wits at an early age, those words sunk in and I passed that class with an A. I have always tried to learn the easy way, allowing those that came before to learn through toil and trial and pass on their hard won knowledge to me so that I would not have to waste time and effort doing it. This is an obvious and effective means of education; the concept that we do not have to keep reinventing the wheel with every passing generation.
Yet it seems that some game developers cannot learn from the past. Games that are rushed have problems. Content that is rushed will be buggy and untested. And gamers, as a whole, are not stupid. I point to the brutally obvious example of Star Wars Galaxies to illustrate this point. Even developers of that game have come forward to admit mistakes were made on an epic scale. There are numerous blogs and news articles detailing why that game failed so miserably. Their words, apparently, have fallen on deaf ears.
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Fishpants!
Posted on | February 23, 2010 | No Comments
It’s Fishpants! For your legs!
Damn these kids today
Posted on | February 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
I just bought a new phone. It’s a fancy thing that slides open two ways, one way for a numerical keypad and one way for a keyboard. However, it was made for pixies. I have big thumbs. I’m an American; I eat raw beef and shit steel beams. I ride a horse to the 7-11 to buy beef jerky and diesel fuel for my siege engines and fuck machines. Though my wrists may be skinny, my hands are of a man, and thus, ALL phones are incapable of handling my inherently masculine dexterity. I try to thumb a message out and unless i use the tips of my nails the sentence is garbled. And don’t even get me started on the touchscreen phones, the iphones and such. The only thing worse than not being able to thumb out a text message on those tiny keyboards is having to try to do it on a screen that gets all oily and smudgy. It’s bad enough you have to press this piece of plastic against your face to talk and have it pickup any oil on your face.
I want to get one of those bluetooth old school rotary phones and work like a cellular. I’ll carry that 5 pound hunk of metal around just to prove a point. You had to work to call someone then. You could seriously hurt your finger in one of those things. I like that. I like a phone with some weight to it. I want people to avoid me when I’m pissed off because I could smash their brains in with the phone I’m yelling into.
That’s all.
Can You Read My Mind?
Posted on | January 14, 2010 | No Comments
Yes. Events beyond our control have prevented us from doing a Couchcast this week. Franky, I needed the break. Plus, It gave me a chance to go see Avatar which was teh awesome. I assure you that next week we will be returning with a whole new couchcast with all the “Week in Geek” tomfoolery you can handle. But before I leave… just a quick note.
I see frustration on Barry’s face every now and then. It seems that he just can’t figure me out. Can’t blame him really. Few can. (I’m the wind, baby.) So, I thought I’d help him (and the rest of you) along. Everything I take in gets run through the Tresfexiraticus filter in my brain. This causes me to perceive things a bit differently than they really are. Rather than try to explain the whole thing, let me just show you…
