Editorial – Scopique's

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,…

Social Sabbatical and Freeing Up Time

Scopique July 13, 2020

About a week ago, I decided to stop opening Twitter. I had no intention of making this a permanent practice, nor was I aiming to be one of those “I cut social media out of my life and now I feel so…

History Repeats – Crayta

Scopique June 30, 2020

Somewhere in the corners of the Internet where trolls like to fling their poo lies Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming platform. The service has a dedicated fan-base, as any tech or product does, and it has its detractors, but at least in my…

Your Own Private Idaho – A Community Streaming Platform

Scopique June 23, 2020

Every now and then Twitter works as a source of discussion, and today’s discussion was about alternatives to Twitch, YouTube, or Facebook in the wake of Mixer’s shut-down-and-sell-out announcement. I mentioned in my previous post how the death of Microsoft-backed Mixer bodes…