Loading bars on two screens.

In front of me, I’m installing the FF14 beta. And to my right, I’m installing all the important stuff onto Peanut’s new laptop. For some reason this dual process is really exhausting.

(Yes, Peanut already had a laptop. But it was too heavy, and not purple. Why do you ask?)

Lock, Stock and Well-Done Subtitles

If given the chance, I always watch movies with the subtitles turned on. Yes, even if the movie is already in American English. It’s not that my hearing is bad, it’s just that I’m a super-fast reader and I hate the sensation of missing dialogue. I feel like if I watch a movie and read […]

Pacing as Difficulty

I work best when I’m allowed to go at my own pace. One of my tasks at the office is to sort all the outgoing mail. In order to accomplish this task I have, over a period of several months, developed an incredibly complex procedure which you would likely try to talk me out of […]

The Value of Things

When a buddy asked me recently how much I would pay for an upgraded Boston track pack for Rock Band 3 my answer was something like, “If they made me pay anything at all, I’d be incredibly pissed.”

This led to a short discussion about whether or not it was okay for Harmonix to charge […]

I bet you’ve fought about this exact same thing.

I don’t think that means what you think it means.

We attach meanings to words above and beyond their dictionary definitions. We take words — common words with unambiguous meanings — and hang our life experiences onto them, as though we own them. A word can mean a thousand different things to a thousand different people, while still retaining its original definition.

Let’s say you […]

Let’s surf some audios!

Hmm… was this really a Let’s Play? Kind of hard to tell.

I only wanted to do about a week’s worth of these videos, so I knew I wasn’t going to be able to use all the requests I got. Still, the series seems to have gone over pretty well and I’m happy with […]

The Gamespite Let’s Play Archive is Officially Finally a Thing

Sort of.

It’s my fervent hope that those links will start becoming active in the upcoming days, because many of those Let’s Plays are works of true brilliance. The amount of work required to properly archive them all is daunting, so I’m chipping in by sorting out the nearly 3,000 images in my own RHEM […]

The Big Damn Metroid Post

I’m still not sold on Metroid: Other M. First of all the title is stupid. Second of all, the marketing blitz surrounding the game (such as it is) is heavy on showing us clips from cutscenes rather than actual gameplay. Which is like… who plays Metroid for the cutscenes? Does anyone care about the tortured […]

Camtasia vs. FRAPS

As I expand my LP videos into new territory beyond simply running a 10-year-old Nintendo emulator, I’m discovering a weakness with the recording software I have access to. I’ve jiggered the scraps into working, but none of my options seem ideal.

I’ll start by spelling out what I want, I suppose. I want a big […]