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Exodus.
Hello, everyone.
Partly because Livejournal is just going downhill, and partly because other people are on Blogger already, I've found myself a new place to Blog:
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New Who Season 4 Episode 1, Torchwood Season Two Mini-reviews.
New Who: "A bit panto".
Torchwood: "Not as adult as it thinks it is." -
Virtual wearable obsessions.
If I only had actual practical experience with microelectronics, I might be tempted to make a Virtual Retinal Display. I've already worked out how to better the depth-simulation of a VRD (relative to the Human Interface Labs suggested solution) by using a Liquid Crystal adaptive lens, rather than a MEMS deformable membrane mirror... (the issue with ( Read more... ) -
Some comments on games for the Wii.
So far, I've played quite a few games on the Nintendo Wii. They vary widely in quality and fun.
Wii Sports, while coming bundled with the Wii, is actually quite fun (although, for some reason, it appears very easy to develop systematic "curl" to left or right with the Bowling). Usefully, it adapts its difficulty to your measured skill, which means ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who Christmas "Special" 2008
I've just gotten around to seeing this. Rather than give you a list of all the issues that it had (and, amusingly, A A Gill agrees with me, which doesn't happen often), I shall sum it up with a resounding "Meh".
(That said, at least some of the acting was pretty good. Not Kylie's though, obviously. Although, she did try.) -
Super Mario Galaxy
I am torn between admiring the design innovation and polish of Super Mario Galaxy and hating it for all the reasons I hate Mario games (not least, the Stupid Jumping Puzzles, and Mario himself). -
The Orange Box: A Review
As I've already talked about Team Fortress 2 and Portal in earlier LJ posts (linked to just now), and I reviewed (and commented on) Half-Life 2 in multiple posts ( here, here and here) when it first came out, this review of The Orange Box will mostly concentrate on Half-Life 2:Episodes One and Two, and Peggle Extreme.
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Half-Life 2: Episode Two Update
That Strider assault is still the most irritating unfun set-piece in any game I've played, mainly due to the Hunters. (I've managed to save the Sawmill, but the third Strider is intensely unfun due to the two Hunters with it, and my inability to aim with logs on the Gravity Gun.) It's unlikely that I'll finish the game, so I'll probably write a ( Read more... ) -
The inevitable Christmas Gifts Post
(to be followed by the inevitable Christmas and New Year post at some point, plus that review of The Orange Box as a whole once I can be bothered to actually finish that section of Episode Two with the Striders in it...)
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