A new plan of attack involves more shorter posts, so that there aren’t months without anything. I stayed away from that here before because I keep really short thoughts to Facebook status updates (would be Twitters if I had any friends on Twitter, but I don’t), but there’s a place between rambling essays and one [...]
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SOFA
Posted in D&D, Fictions, Internets, Movies, Personal, Television, Video games, tagged Facebook, Far Cry 2, Heroes, Letters from Africa, Overlord, Pushing Daisies, Quantum of Solace, Steam, The Forsaken Jewel, Twitter on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An experiment in narrative
Posted in Fictions, Video games, tagged Far Cry 2, Letters from Africa on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lettersfromafrica/
What’s at the convergence of video games, social commentary, and hyperconnectivity? Here’s one suggestion, perhaps. Hopefully it becomes interesting.
On Company Time
Posted in Fictions, tagged The Merry Men on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Black screen, white text. Four numbers, separated by colons, the farthest right decreasing steadily. It was easy to understand: days, hours, minutes, seconds.
“Where was this?” asked Will.
The countdown had six days left.
David nodded at the screen, his eyes unmoving. “Just an IP address, no domain. But it’s been posted everywhere.”
“Viral. Less is more, the allure [...]
Time
Posted in Fictions on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Note: I used to call this stuff “hastily written shitty fiction”. It’s officially lost the label, but it’s still hastily written, and as for the other part, well, I offer no guarantees.
Dim columns of light hovered over the black streets. Empty. The patrol officer leaned back against the hard leather chair and tapped the gas [...]
