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Yet still others, the literary critics, noted that unlike novels, video games and film have never had the second-person perspective, the "you." Cameras in video games often take the point of view of a character's eyes and ears (first person) or take a vantage either above
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Confusingly, some had remembered their experience as an actual memory of having been once stood up, which meant that the fictional story had ingratiated itself into their autobiographical story of self. If a brain is a prediction engine, some memory researchers argued, then would not even false memories, trapped in
My Stuff
A pretty good week this week. Starting to work on some larger projects. Now Reading The Courage to Be Disliked — my third read through since I discovered this book last month. I’m taking notes this time, and posting them here. Once I’ve gone through the book again, I’
My Stuff
Now Playing High on Life (Xbox): smartly written first person shooter that looks great and plays wonderfully over the cloud; might be Game Pass/Xcloud’s killer app. Civilization VI (Xbox/iOS): every so often I go on a Civ binge. I’m not sure what prompted it this time.
My Stuff
Now Playing Marvel SNAP (iOS). Wrote a longer post about it, but SNAP has become my go-to time waster when I have a few minutes to kill. Cult of the Lamb (Xbox). A very nice rouge-like with city building and resource management tacked on. Now Reading The Courage to Be
Gaming
Marvel’s supplemental nutrition assistance program? No! Marvel’s collectible card game. It’s free to play, with the monetization coming from buying credits for cosmetics and to free up timers. The only pay to win element that I can see would be I guess you could get some cards
My Stuff
I read somewhere a little while ago about “Now” pages, which are special blog pages where you note what you’re currently into. I’m too lazy to look up the reference, so you’ll have to Google it yourself. So I made one for this blog, and stuck it
Autism
I’ve got a slight cold, and it’s such a relief. I’d spent the weekend coming up with a new schema to through into my system, and yesterday was when the rubber was to really hit the road, and I just couldn’t. I didn’t feel like
Quotes
Minecraft, as the novelist and technology writer Robin Sloan has observed, is “a game about secret knowledge.” That’s part of what’s so amazing about it, you have to dip your toes in, get a feel for it, and then go research how to do everything. The Minecraft Generation
Writing
Read this Kotaku article yesterday, and the more I think about it, the more annoyed with it I am. Supposedly, the article aimed to explain the fallout the developer of the game Boyfriend Dungeon was facing. Since I’d heard of neither the game nor the fallout, I thought that
Gaming
Road Not Taken is an interesting little game.
Gaming
I was replaying Fallout 4. I took my hundreds of hours of playing Fallout 76, and applied it to 4, and ended up having a really good time, getting myself leveled up. Also, I was really enjoying how nice the game looked, after the eyesore that is 76. But then