Category Archives: Personal

To Those Concerned About “Real Men”

There have been a lot of articles written lately, I have noticed, on the subject of manhood—specifically, the dearth of what the writers fondly call “real men.” A few days ago someone I know shared an article citing Ray Romano as the embodiment of what’s wrong with modern men. Just this morning I was linkedContinue reading “To Those Concerned About “Real Men””

Starflight Stick-to-it-ive-ness

Things are slowing down a bit here, as you may have noticed. Unfortunately, I appear to have over-volunteered myself for leisure activities, like this one. A number of different side projects have been on my plate lately—Starflight and this blog, a desire to contribute to OCReMix (and a brand new copy of Ableton Live, thanks toContinue reading “Starflight Stick-to-it-ive-ness”

The “Mass Effect” Effect: Emergent Storytelling in Games

The Apple fiasco of the past few weeks has been the subject of much discussion, and I have some thoughts I’d like to publish on Apple’s response (which was a fair to middling handling of the crisis, though it still doesn’t entirely make up for their abysmal handling of the issue up until that point).Continue reading “The “Mass Effect” Effect: Emergent Storytelling in Games”