Originally published at Unimatrix Two. Feel free to leave any comments there, or here if you like.

Computer used: 2009 Mac Pro with 8 GB memory, a 1 GB Apple graphics card, and OS X 10.9 Mavericks

1. Purchase Skyrim on Steam. (By waiting for the right sale, I got it for $5.)
2. Download ThePortingTeam’s Wine wrapper for Skyrim.
3. Follow the installation ( Read more... )

Originally published at Unimatrix Two. You can comment here or there.

Since the days of my first Lego set, I have never lost the joy of building something - having a goal for how something should look and feel and function, then correcting and tweaking until what I was making came as close to that goal as possible.

Kerbal Space Program takes that ( Read more... )

That's right, I'm not dead yet. I just haven't felt like journalling at all in months - my creativity and ability to string words together has been darn near zero.

But sometimes, going through my old work will inspire me a bit. To that end, here's a video walkthrough of the video game level I designed - an addon for Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge, a ( Read more... )

My enforced vacation from work brings some good news: some personal projects have moved much farther forward in the last month. I finally repaired Thunderchild, made progress on a video project, reorganized bookshelves in the bedroom and living room, and now I've finished a pair of games sitting in my collection since 2004: "Star Trek: Elite Force ( Read more... )

Steve Jobs has little use for computer games. Inconveniently, his customers are quite interested, and that's been a problem since 1984 ( Read more... )

I'm slowly returning to the Internet after the wonderful madness of the last few weeks. There's plenty about those days to talk about, too, but I'm warming up with something especially trivial: WoW faction transfers ( Read more... )

Okay, I give. I suck so much at Starcraft that I can't beat the last Terran mission even by using the resources, supplies, map, and quick build cheats. The only thing left would be to hit the automatic "I WIN" cheat, which sort of defeats any residual point. (One of the "Monty Python" CD games included an "I WIN" button at the very beginning, which ( Read more... )

• 07:49 @ starstryder That's right! you need Katamari Damacy instead: tinyurl.com/iPrince #
• 07:51 Wow. Absolutely exhausted yesterday, nearly wrecked on the way home. Think I'm feeling better this morning. #
• 13:33 @ queenofpith If a Richmond Dave & Busters installs the VWE MechWarrior simulation pods, I am so there! #
• 14:56 Job perk: had lengthy ( Read more... )

So Christmas has begun early - as it often does in my house, for some reason. Starr got me the Wii I have been waffling about since its introduction: I wanted one, but couldn't really justify one (which makes it an awesome gift, if you think about it ( Read more... )

(This would have been posted this morning were it not for the LJ downtime ( Read more... )