media consumption
Looking forward to playing two games on the 360 this week: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which unfortunately was ordered last week for $10 more than it is this week, and Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, for which the first expansion hits Wednesday.
finally
The A/C seems to be fixed now, just in time for… fall.
Anyway.
I still haven’t stopped running away from sitting down to write. But I’m enjoying reading to Keisha when she lets me (less often since I started reading Ready Player One to her… she’d prefer to get back to The Dresden Files).
sigh
After over a month, probably more than a dozen technician visits, installation of a new condenser unit, and replacement of the new unit’s compressor, wiring, and part of the suction line, our home A/C still doesn’t work adequately. Right now I feel so tired of the whole thing. Maybe the thermostat is a piece of crap (it is), and isn’t turning on the A/C when it should? I don’t know, I just want it to work.
And I thought the 360′s DRM was frustrating…
We just got a new Wii, because our current one is on its last legs. One of the Wiimotes is already dead and the system itself will often freeze, refuse to read discs, or have any number of other strange issues. I’ve gone so long without calling tech support because I’m kind of dreading having to describe the issue; there isn’t one simple issue to describe, it just often doesn’t work.
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games and stuff
Picked up “Kard Combat,” which is an badly-themed, badly-named version of Spectromancer. Spectromancer is fun, and this is it for $3, basically. So it’s fun.
Games
So, yeah. Some stuff happened. I still don’t really feel like writing about it here.
Got a game called 7 Wonders recently, and I’m looking forward to playing it. Needs at least three players, so we have to wait until tomorrow. It’s a card-drafting civilization-building game. Seems like it will be really fun.
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Just migrated to a new host and domain registrar, so the site was down for a bit. But now it’s not. Sweet.
GMO
Everyone who thinks there’s no science showing any problems with genetically modified crops should watch this.
More Gamification
I’m reading this right now. Haven’t gotten far yet, but it strikes me that operant conditioning techniques are right at home in organizations which value obedience in their members above all else.
Oops, I forgot the title.
This week I…
…finished Persona 3. Started playing “The Answer,” the follow-up in the FES version which I have. I also recently got Persona 4, which I will play at some point after finishing “The Answer.” I really like Persona 3. The social game aspect seems like it could be a game on its own if done well. Of course there are Japanese dating sims but most don’t reach the US and I doubt there are very many which are any good. They seem1 to follow the same patterns, with a slew of potential female partners, one each for seemingly the same categories in every one. I guess there are some that aren’t like this but I think with Persona 3/4 it’s really cool that the sim encompasses more types of relationships than just dating. I’d like to create a game with this aspect some day (I mentioned it here before, it’s called This Celestial Life).
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- I say this without having actually played any except one or two short web games of this style on Newgrounds. ↩
Punished by Freakonomics
I just watched Freakonomics on Netflix Instant Watch. There was some really interesting stuff there, like the theory about Roe v. Wade being responsible for most of the 90s’ drop in crime rate. But having read Punished by Rewards, the stuff about incentives was depressing.
Tron
Watched the original Tron this weekend. It was hilarious. I can’t remember a single technological assertion in there which had anything remotely to do with reality. Fun stuff. Tron: Legacy is up next from Netflix later this week.
