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Muscle Memory of Our Online Lives

Scopique May 4, 2022

In the wake of the news that the sale of Twitter was “more or less a done deal” (not my words, but seemingly everyone’s sentiment) I saw many folks in my timeline openly opine about where they’d be moving their primary online…

Platform Dependence

Scopique April 14, 2022

It’s hard for me to write about this without slipping into speechify mode; this is Attempt #3, so I’m going to try and keep it light and casual, while also hitting the high points I want to hit. This is, of course,…

Snake Oil: Web3

Scopique April 8, 2022

I have just finished watching a video presentation at the JS Game Dev Summit, and it has left me 1/3 angry, 1/3 sad, and 1/3 plain old disappointed in the future of gaming. As you might assume from the title of this…

Good, Bad, or Indifferent: Streaming, Audience, and Halo

Scopique January 31, 2022

Sometimes I have a bunch of thoughts milling around the waiting room of my head, like an association word-cloud: totally unformed, semi-related, and of varying strengths. This is one of those times, having just watched the latest trailer for the Paramount+ Halo…

For My Father

Scopique December 31, 2021

My father passed away in 2019, one day after his birthday at the age of 78. He had been a smoker for most of his life but had quit in the early 2000’s when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. It was…

Abbreviated The Game Awards 2021

Scopique December 10, 2021

I am one of those who will admit at the drop of a hat how much I dislike awards shows, but considering that The Game Awards is more like a parade of game announcements with a few awards thrown in just so…

What The Hell Happened To Crowfall?

Scopique September 23, 2021

This is kind of a “part two” to my previous post, “Wrong Eggs in Wrong Baskets” because that title implied multiples and I only talked about one game and one situation. I had intended to shoehorn the Saga of Crowfall into that…

Wrong Eggs In Wrong Baskets

Scopique September 23, 2021

I don’t really MMO any more. I used to with alarming frequency, and at one point had been able to call myself primarily an “MMO blogger”, but over time I’ve lost interest in the genre. I have a partial ear to the…

How Much Is a Voice Worth?

Scopique August 5, 2021

Friends, I am having trouble writing this post, which means if you see it, it’s probably a poorly written missive that only digs deep enough to allow me to call it “content”. Something that’s always on my mind is the value of…

Intensity Versus Patience

Scopique April 9, 2021

Last night I was sitting around, looking through my Steam and Epic libraries for the 15th time in two days in the hope that something would catch my eye. I have not been gaming as of late; I have Star Citizen and…