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Grab bag for…What day is it?

Scopique December 9, 2020

I don’t know why I ended up here. I had opened several browser windows and apparently this was one of them. Using my sensitive dowsing powers, I was drawn here for…some reason. I don’t think I have much to say, and only…

The Mandalorian Makes Me Appreciate Star Wars

Scopique November 14, 2020

Talking about Star Wars is like putting a political sign in your yard: you’re bound to get some crazy in your face no matter what your position. Back when I was a kid, had seen the original trilogy about 35 times in…

Death of a Spaceman Addresses the Wrong Problem

Scopique November 2, 2020

Last week’s Star Citizen’s “Calling All Devs” video chatted with Richard Tyrer of the core gameplay group and Chris Roberts of Chris Roberts fame about a concept called “Death of a Spaceman“. Published way back in 2013 — which should show how…

Discord Sucks, Adapt or Die, and Learning is Going To Hell

Scopique September 21, 2020

I’ve been trying to learn about the Core game platform for the past week. I’ve spawned copies of some complex games made by Manticore and have gone through each element, checking out the properties and, if relevant, the scripts associated with them.…

We’ve Lost More Than Just a Band We Didn’t Know We Had

Scopique September 14, 2020

I wanted to talk a little about this documentary that I found yesterday. It’s about a rock band called Halyx, created by Disney in the early 80’s, featured at it’s California park for a single summer engagement, and then never heard from…

MMOs

Scopique August 19, 2020

The massive multiplayer online roleplaying game genre — MMORPG to us old guard, or MMOs to the slightly less old guard, or World of Warcraft to the kids — is alive and well. It’s also dormant. It’s also dead. Like almost anything,…

The Satisfyingly Unsatisfactory Approach of Planning It All Out First

Scopique August 9, 2020

I don’t know why, but I was struck with a bit of inspiration while kicking back and doing absolutely nothing yesterday afternoon (literally: I was at my desk, feet up, contemplating a nap). As you might know, I have been semi-obsessed (semi…

The Sound of (Relative) Silence

Scopique July 30, 2020

I am coming to the end of my official social media sabbatical, and as an experiment, I wanted to write up what I have personally learned in this past month (or so). As I mentioned at the outset, I didn’t go looking…

XBOX Games Showcase 2020

Scopique July 23, 2020

I feel like I’m writing this from the bottom of a well. I normally watch these broadcasts in the company of folks on Twitter, but per my last post I’m not there right now so I have been spamming reactions in Discord…

Opera GX

Scopique July 15, 2020

Browser Wars, amirite? At some point in my Internet career (both as a civilian and as someone fighting from the trenches in web application development) I have used or at least tried most of them. For the longest time I, like many,…