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Archive for July 8th, 2010

No More Sandbox

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

What happened to SimCity? When did video games become movies with intermittent play? Who took away my creativity? There are no more truely open ended game. I miss not having a purpose and having to create one. Slowly cut-scenes became longer and longer. The only survivors remaining are lame MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) that are [...]

Mosquitoes

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

These things are too evil – a flying hypodermic needle that silents lands on your skin to drink blood and communicate disease. Yesterday I got to thinking about how scary mosquitoes would seem to somebody not normally exposed if everybody on earth wasn’t at some point in the year. Always squish them from tangentially angles [...]