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Month: August 2016

  • A Day’s Work

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    I just spent the entire day — over 12 hours — working on my site/blog. That may sound crazy, but it’s been a rather enjoyable experience. The first half of the day was spent recreating posts that were missing from my archives (as I described in this post). Since then, I’ve been making my way…

  • Special Edition

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    As I work at reconstructing my blog — I’m currently in the process of manually re-posting the 3 years of lost posts (2011-2014) thanks to the Wayback Machine — it has me thinking on what I want to do when I go back to older posts and start cleaning them up. I’m referring here to…

  • Digging Through the Archives

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    At long last, my archives are back. Most of them at least. Some of you may recall that back in early 2014, I had the great misfortune of the web host I was using pulling the rug from under me, which meant that my entire website — which dated back to 2002 — suddenly disappeared.…

  • Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

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    Did you like Mirror’s Edge? Well then why haven’t you played Mirror’s Edge Catalyst? (I say this because it seems to have been criminally overlooked upon release.) Just like the first was so enjoyable for its unique clean world design and parkour first-person gameplay, the sequel takes all that, betters it, and offers an open…

  • Yoshi’s Wooly World

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    The Wii U may be underpowered when compared to PS4/X1, but you sure couldn’t tell when playing through Yoshi’s Wooly World. One of the most beautiful games I’ve seen in action, the mix of wooly art direction with a color palette that is joyous beyond belief makes for such a fun experience. Put all that…

  • Ratchet & Clank

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    I was quite looking forward to playing this, as I’m a huge fan of the series, and everything I’d seen so far made it look like a beautiful graphical showcase. I finally played through it last week, and I wasn’t disappointed. I still don’t understand why they decided to remake the first game, in terms…

  • I Am Thor

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    I recently watched this documentary on Netflix, about this guy – the titular Thor – who had a brief flash of fame in the 70s/80s as a hard rock/heavy metal singer, and who decides to try and make a comeback in the last decade (and is still trying). It’s not as interesting as the recent…

  • Ronia the Robber’s Daughter

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    I finally got around to watching the second half of Ghibli’s Ronia series, produced by Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro Miyazaki. The entire series is made up of 26 episodes, and I had really loved the first half. As I wrote back then, there are times where the cel shaded CG can feel a bit, well, CG,…