While researching the itch.io story, I visited Funko Fusion’s Steam page and found this nonsense. Steam’s pages have an “is […]
Archive for ‘Pieces’
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 […]
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 […]
YouTube helpfully reminds me that Hitler is dead
One of the YouTube channels I subscribe to is Megaprojects. Its main focus is on big construction projects (hence the […]
Google’s AI tried to upsell me on a paid version of Firefox
Once in a while when I’m updating my phone’s apps, I’ll idly click over to an app’s Play Store page […]
The elephant in the greenery: why I don’t buy into utopias
Readers of mine might have gotten the idea that I incline to dystopian thinking or outright cynicism over utopian optimism. […]
Dungeon Siege – can I come along?
As I was retreating out of a spider-infested room under an old ruin, I found myself feeling impatient for Gyorn […]
The Saint and the disgusting copyright
Recently I was reminded of one of Leslie Charteris’ Saint novellas, collected in The Ace of Knaves (occasionally AKA The […]
Dear WordPress, your “recommended tags” are garbage
I went a while without posting, so I don’t remember when WordPress.com added this alleged feature, but now when I […]
Oh, hi there, winter: the unpleasantness of Daylight Saving Time
So I woke up this morning feeling better rested than I expected, started on my morning routine, and eventually noticed […]
Ray of Infamy 