For the most part I'm loving my new Mac Mini, but one thing about the transition didn't go so well - somehow, when moving over my external HD (which had always been a little flaky) to the new machine, it's file system got corrupted). OSX's built-in Disk Utility managed to repair the partition with my actual important backups, thankfully, but the ( Read more... )

Let's see, what else was going on in the month since I last updated ( Read more... )

This is entirely skuldchan's fault.
( meme about icons )

Haven't written here in a while. So here's a little of everything ( Read more... )

My article from GameSpite Quarterly 2 is now up: Shadow of the Colossus. The "review" is mostly a big tangent; honestly at this point I'm assuming most of the GS audience knows what the game's about, so we're free to explore other avenues. Plus the whole "Best Of" Issue #2 is really all about introspective musings anyway ( Read more... )

Because I'm feeling lazy (and should go to bed soon), I'm just gonna post a bunch of recent tweets. I did edit out the extra boring ones, though. Would anyone be interested in me expanding on any of these topics? ( Let me know. )

Gamespite Quarterly #2 is now available for order over at gamespite.net (or here direct link to buy, table of contents). It's a bunch of articles about the bestestest games ever. At least the best as voted by gamespite's user forums, which makes it a particularly nerdy and retro-heavy sort of list, but nevertheless filled with awesome. My ( Read more... )

Hey, so, an article I wrote a long time ago for the print version of GameSpite has finally gone live online so I can link to it. So, have some links:

• Casltevaina: Order of Ecclesia full article. I quite like this one (both the game and how my write-up came out).
  
• I also did a short sidebar for Final Fantasy Legend III for this issue.
  
• GameSpite ( Read more... )

Selected twitter snippets from the past two weeks ( Read more... )

I love the Talking Time forums over at Gamespite. Keep in mind the following exchange took place in a religion thread in the Pit of Flames sub-forum, where people are less polite than usual yet still more civil than probably 90% of forums on the internet. The emphasis in the first quote was added by the quoter.

--- To a Christian or a Muslim, ( Read more... )