As a result of travel, a busy entertaining schedule, and some work stuff, I’m way behind. On everything. In March and April I watched a number of Marvel films. I’m well into “Phase Two” now, having watched Captain America: Winter Soldier, and Ant-Man. I’ve even dipped a toe into “Phase Three”, with the second Guardians …
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February’s reading/watching/playing
Finished much of my January stuff. A few stragglers. PC/Console: Dead Space 3 Book: Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics Movie: Ghost in the Shell original and remake Comic: The Star Wars Mobile Game: Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores and Monument Valley 2
Media plan for 2018, and what I’m reading/watching/playing now
For a wide variety of reasons in 2017, I really neglected my media consumption. Neglected in the “garden gone to seed” way, not in the sense that I didn’t do any. I finished a few books, but ended up doing more comfort rereading than anything else. Similarly the TV was mostly on when cleaning, cooking, …
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Terry Cavanagh’s insanely hard games
After my post yesterday on Flappy Bird, my brother pointed out that a big part of the attraction was the punishing difficulty level, and bragging rights. If need a really hard game that’s insanely addictive, you can’t do better than Terry Cavanagh’s Super Hexagon. You control a triangle dodging rapidly rotating walls in a hexagonal …
All in a flap
The big news this week amongst nerd circles seems to be the disappearance of Flappy Bird from the App Store. I never tried it, so I don’t get the attraction to such a simple and kind of ugly game. For folks mourning the fact they didn’t get on Flappy Bird in time, I’d like to …