Jocelyn Beauregard, Private Eye (part five)

Having completed NaNoWriMo ’10, I’m going to share one section of my story here every Friday until you’ve read the whole thing. Hooray for easy update days! Enjoy.

The details of Ted Holdren’s office were much more complicated than usual. For one, there was a giant safe laying face-down in the center of the room, […]

Sonic Colors: Final Thoughts

Sonic Colors is one of the best bad games I’ve played in a long time. This game does a variety of things wrong, but every sin it commits is nullified by another, more positive design choice. The result is a game that is more-or-less fun to play, start to finish, but never really strikes the […]

Racing the Clock

While it’s true I sometimes play portable games at work, it’s not like my job consists of nothing but empty hours of me sitting there trying not to drool on myself. Cases where I just kick back and play a game for hours on end are exceedingly rare; more often, I’m playing a game while […]

Siiiiick.

My body has this alarming ability to go from zero to sick in about eight seconds. Last night I was sitting at work and feeling pretty good about life, then in the span of a single cough I immediately began to yearn for the merciful release of death. Waking up today (at around 6pm) was […]

LP updates on here?

I usually don’t mention my screenshot-flavored LPs on this site, mainly because most of my readers are TTers anyway, but also because it kind of feels like cheap-out double dipping.

But I might change that policy, if for no reason other than to decrease my workload a little bit.

I have one more update in […]

First Impressions: Sonic and DK

Under the tree this year were copies of Sonic Colors and Donkey Kong Country Returns. Both of these games are really fun, but they’re different kinds of fun.

Sonic Colors is a pretty easy game that’s all about blinding speed. Oftentimes it’s impossible to tell where I’m going or what I’m doing just by looking […]

…and to all a good night.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I will be marking this festive occasion with a repost. Please enjoy this poem I wrote last year about Christmas and zombies:

Zombie Annihilation on 34th Street

Thank you to everyone who stuck with me through 2010. I hope your holiday is warm, joyful and relaxing.

Jocelyn Beauregard, Private Eye (part four)

Having completed NaNoWriMo ’10, I’m going to share one section of my story here every Friday until you’ve read the whole thing. Hooray for easy update days! Enjoy.

Danny didn’t want to be around when the police showed up. He hadn’t wanted to call it in at all, but […]

Things we need words for.

We need a word for the compulsion people have to ask a question they have already received an answer to. Working in a call center this past year has convinced me this is a common enough phenomenon that we need a way to refer to it. I’m sure this conversation happens to people in many […]

Minecraft Beta

Since Minecraft is the only game that matters, I thought I’d share some of what I’ve been working on this past week.

This is the heart of my operations: the workshop. It’s a small room with a workbench surrounded by chests full of everything I own, sorted by material. There’s a chest for wood, […]