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Ray O'Neill


Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (early access demo)
“Rotting in one of their cells is a stranger who might bring a spark of change to this cursed island […]

Photofail: kaleidoscopic spray
On my way home from work one recent night, I was reminded how little I’d seen this year in the […]

Steam’s recommendation algo thinks Portal was… what?
While researching the itch.io story, I visited Funko Fusion’s Steam page and found this nonsense. Steam’s pages have an “is […]

The itch.io takedown
The players: Funko is best known for its line of Funko Pop figurines, “collectibles” based on other companies’ licensed IP. […]

I misread a headline: city bus driver edition
On my way out of the grocery store one evening, I skimmed the headlines on the newspaper rack and saw […]

My new favorite example of the video game modding hobby
The recent slew of Alien: Isolation videos populating YouTube’s recommendation algorithm caused me to both start a new playthrough (of […]

Juncture

Alien: Isolation, IGN, and sailing the algo sea
So a couple months ago, YouTube started recommending a bunch of videos about Alien: Isolation. After I watched a couple […]
