Rants
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Austin Walker of Giant Bomb recently asked what parts of gaming or gaming criticism or culture his readership might be afraid of losing or seeing forgotten by the collective consciousness. I had to think about that for a minute. While there’s a lot that I love about the games that have come to us since…
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So it’s been a good while since I’ve made an update, and I apologize for that. In the last few months, school has gone from interesting to abysmal, and most of my free time has been devoted to language study. When I first went to college over a decade ago, it was with the desire…
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Ah, “darkness”. Few words conjure up so much immediate meaning and are still so subject to arguments about semantic terminology. What is dark to one, after all, may not be to another. What some find distastefully morbid, others mine for inspiration. Yet to some degree we all know what’s implied when the term is used,…
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All right; I know I haven’t posted anything in a short while, even after acknowledging my inconsistency in the last post. This can be attributed to two of my best friends tying the knot up at Patrick’s Point in California, which necessitated more travel since I had been asked to write a small piece to…
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Over the last few years I have found myself debating whether or not I have any use for or trust in the concept of eBooks. While anyone can acknowledge that having your books in a digital format saves on shelf space and makes them easier to transport, are there other advantages? Are there other, less…
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Finally, I’m south. After much travel, aggravation, inspiration, and diner food consumption, the move is officially over. I’m now a resident of Arlington, Texas, and my feelings about this, while generally positive, are mixed. I’ve had a couple weeks to settle in (I apologize for the lack of updates—it’s been a busy time) and have gotten…
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I read this article last night, and though I’ve been meaning to post a blog about the end of my trip to Texas, I wanted to post this now because I found it fascinating. The comments people left under the article were even more fascinating than the article itself, however, and it’s to any number…