Editorial – Scopique's

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…

A Beaten Horse – Mixer, Facebook Gaming, and A Shrinking Market

Scopique June 22, 2020

I’m only beating this horse in order to remain relevant in the moment but I had my say yesterday on Twitter so I won’t go over the sarcastic responses again. Instead, we need to consider how bad this is for everyone, regardless…

A Week of Worldbuilding

Scopique June 18, 2020

I have learned that there is such a thing as “creative fatigue”. As exciting as it can be to get down to business when you have a great idea overflowing with possibilities, there comes that time when you need to put pen…

Space Games With Friends

Scopique May 26, 2020

This post brought to you by @4robertanderson, @pasmith, @mindstrike, and @dusty_monk. As 4robertanderson pointed out on Twitter, there’s a whole lot of co-op games in almost every genre except space-faring sci-fi. We’re drowning in high fantasy MMOs and running to stay ahead…

Our Opinions Matter: Consumers and Corporate Bickering

Scopique March 5, 2020

I agree 100% with Bel’s point, and also on how hard it is to talk about this — or certain aspects of this — without devolving into an angry rant. This dust-up between Nvidia and certain dev/pubs — playing out in a…