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Midlife Sundown
Posted on December 19, 2011 | Posted In: The Stuff | No CommentsThe entryway to middle age is an unpleasant threshold, that much is certain. I’ll allow that it has something to do with the receding halcyon lights of youth, narrowing to a pinprick in the mind’s eye. It’s rather like hurtling down a well, your upturned face uselessly swallowing up the… -
Surgical Theology
Posted on November 22, 2011 | Posted In: The Stuff | 4 CommentsIt’s always startling to find yourself at the intersection of a particularly strange convergence of thoughts, especially when the catalyst of oddity is a pretty flower. Still, with this blossom between my fingers this morning, unlikely or not, I paired the word “beautiful” with “as long as it doesn’t beat… -
“Dishonored” Announced
Posted on September 1, 2011 | Posted In: The Game Industry | 2 CommentsAlthough it’s hardly timely (it’s been more than a month since the official announcement), I figured I’d post a quick shout out for “Dishonored”, the game I’ve been working on for the past two and half years.
Signing copies of GameInformer’s Dishonored cover story… -
Making Babies and Shit
Posted on April 18, 2011 | Posted In: The Kid | 2 CommentsOn a night not unlike this one your mommy and daddy decided to have a baby. It started, as many things do, with a conversation. “I have an idea,” said your daddy. “How about you” he began, indicating mommy, “start eating a few extra burritos, yogurts, and Eggo Homestyle Waffles.”… -
Once Burned
Posted on March 16, 2011 | Posted In: The Stuff | 3 CommentsStillness tends to play catch up in my life, usually lurking behind in the wake of the day’s mundane chaos. It isn’t often that a quiet moment forcibly seizes me, ramming other thoughts over the edge. But that happened once tonight, right in the midst of my daily grind. The… -
Blogging About Blogging: Reaching 10,000 Views
Posted on March 2, 2011 | Posted In: The Stuff | No CommentsThere’s little doubt that come January 1st many people recognize that their figure is best viewed with a fun-house mirror, and most make resolutions to drop the extra pounds in order to become worthy of accidentally seeing the cover of Cosmo again. All too often step 2 is hiring a… -
Blogging About Blogging: Reaching 10,000 Views – Page 2
Posted on March 2, 2011 | Posted In: The Stuff | 1 CommentLearn to Compartmentalize Internet Criticism Those that are just starting to blog have probably considered but failed to truly prepare themselves for one thing: dicks on the Internet. And I don’t mean your Google image search gone horribly wrong. Whether it’s well reasoned, lazy and cruel, or a nonsensical mish… -
+10,000 XP – New Level Get!
Posted on February 25, 2011 | Posted In: The Stuff | No CommentsWhen I first started writing this blog I had a bunch of half-baked ideas I wanted to try, and among these were a few topics that can only be categorized as “personal maintenance”. Chief among these was the idea that I would commit to writing a single informal post about… -
Gamers Whiny Crybabies Because Game Developers Suck at Games
Posted on February 4, 2011 | Posted In: The Game Industry | 8 CommentsLong before the proliferation of Internet forums, there was a time when a friend of mine looked at one of my other friends, and then punched that bastard in the face. Why? “Because”, that’s why. Oh certainly he’ll say it was because we was defending the honor of the SNES…