May 2013
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E3 Press Conferences Should Be Better
With the PS4 and X-Box One reveals now in the rearview, and as we gear up for a week of similar showcases at E3 in June, I want to take a moment to talk about the state of video game press conferences/events/reveals. The abbreviated version is this: They’re not any good. More specifically, most of them are awful, even the good ones aren’t very good, and there’s zero reason why...
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The Daily Dot - The true and overlooked origins of... →
This is an interesting article on the beginnings of Tumblr. I’ve had similar experience with the origins of a startup being glossed-over and simplified as investor money came in, and I always found it super interesting/heartbreaking. A good thing to constantly remind yourself in life is that if something is a good story, it’s probably just a story.
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The Me Who Isn't Me
When I’m visiting family, it’s usually nicer if my girlfriend is here with me. I used to think that was the real-life manifestation of some sort of romantic comedy trope, i.e.: family is so ridiculous, but they’re family and we love them, and we love each other, so let’s enjoy how we’re all family, merry christmas, the end. Now, I think there might be a little more to...
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Flustered Boy Trying to Pump Gas Like a Man
I’m in my hometown of Shelton, WA for the next week. Kind of a mini-vacation before I have to go back to L.A. and figure out some way to pay rent. I’ve been here for a few days already, and so far I’ve shot a short film, seen some old friends, and hung out with my folks. I’m hoping to continue to enjoy nature, my family, get some writing done, and maybe play some...
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Q&A: Meltdown Poster Artist Dave Kloc - Features -... →
Check out this great interview with my friend and amazing artist Dave Kloc.
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut →
Take a few minutes and read this short story, if you never have.
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Not-Advice for Past-Me about bad relationships
Last night I tried to give a friend some advice, because he seemed to be going through some stuff that was similar to some stuff I went through earlier in life. My friend didn’t know how to get over a girl. I told him that it takes time. It takes working on you. It takes doin’ it with other people. I stand by that answer. Unfortunately, I know that if anyone had given me that advice at...
April 2013
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My Problems with Zach Braff's Kickstarter
I was really into Garden State when it came out. I think it was a great first film and showed real promise for new writer/director Zach Braff. I saw the movie several times in theaters, I bought the soundtrack, I modeled several early relationships with women after Natalie Portman’s character, and I made really cheesy mixtapes for my own screenplays. I was really excited to see what this new...
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WatchThis video from The Onion is great, and so true. The funny part is, now that I’m unemployed, this shit happens even more often. Sometimes while I’m still in bed, I can decide to just give up for the day.
Right now I’ve got a bad foot injury from hiking yesterday, and that new Poker Night at the Inventory 2 came out, I’m thinking that as soon as noon rolls around I can...
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Power Glove →
So this guy did some of the tracks on the upcoming Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon soundtrack (which looks awesome). This is his Soundcloud page and you just have to check it out. I’m specifically fond of “Fantastic Lover (Johnny Moog Remix).
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“Good SF supplies a plausible, fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality...”
– Thinking Big: Greetings from Neal Stephenson | The Hieroglyph Project
This is a cool project and definitely worth a read. Let’s do whatever we can to make the future more future-y.
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It Was a Bad Day. I Had to Eulogize My KDAY. -... →
So I found out yesterday that my favorite radio station in L.A. is being sold and turned into a Mandarin language station. I am devastated. It plays the best old school hip hop, and I don’t know how I will continue discovering these lost gems with KDAY. As I tweeted yesterday, KDAY is the only good thing about driving in Los Angeles.
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Rookie » A Mind of My Own →
Really interesting and well written article on how your life is affected when you’re hit with a big illness.
Thinking about this, I couldn’t help but feel like writing the screenplay I’m working on right now is my debilitating illness. I’ve had to quit my job, I stay at home so I can work on it, and I have cut off most social activities so I can focus on it. Obviously...
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Mason Jars
Man, drinking out of a Mason jar is good times. Pour some crisp water in there, keep it at your desk at work. Makes you look like you’re too busy to get a real glass. Makes you look like Don Draper back when he was Dick Whitman. Makes your boss give you that promotion over Stanley, because Stanley drinks out of a fucking Nalgene. Who’s Stanley trying to impress? No one, evidently.
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“Crystal Head Vodka is a pure spirit with no additives. It is quadrupled...”
– Dan Akroyd
March 2013
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Liquid Schedule
I am developing a new liquid drinking regiment that leads to the perfect life. My hypothesis is that if you drink the right thing at the right time, then everything will work out. That’s how it works with potions and mana in RPGs, and at the end of every RPG the guy saves the world and gets the girl and everything works out. So, the current liquid schedule I am trying out is this:
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WatchOh man, check out this archival footage of Starcraft Ghost. It’s really too bad this game never saw the light of day. The idea of being able to interact with the Starcraft universe up-close-and-personal is really exciting. I’m not an MMO guy, but the concept of World of Starcraft always appealed to me because I just love that sci-fi world and its fiction.
And yes, with Starcraft 2:...
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Videogame Backlogs
So this morning I saw someone ask on twitter where people’s videogame backlogs come from. I wasn’t absolutely sure how to answer. I have a huge videogame backlog, and I feel like it’s the result of a combination of several factors:
I have too many options. As a kid, I used to maybe get three games a year. One for my birthday, one for Christmas, and one that I saved up my own...
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“But now that lots of people are taking anti-anxiety drugs and their drug-laced...”
– Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into weird loners | Grist
Yep, that’s right, our drug-soaked urine is druggin fish into acting more cool. I wish that happened for me when I drank urine.
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“Researchers have created an electronic link between the brains of two rats, and...”
– Brain-to-brain interfaces have arrived, and they are absolutely mindblowing
Oh man, get hype. Science is the best.
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West by Disasterpeace →
Looking for great western-themed chiptune music? Of course not, but you should listen to this anyway.
February 2013
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“What are you supposed to do when someone asks you to “prove” that...”
– Lindy West, from Sexism Fatigue: When Seth MacFarlane Is a Complete Ass and You Don’t Even Notice. If you follow me on Twitter, you know how upset I got from Seth MacFarlane’s gross turn as Oscars host. If you’ve ever quoted Family Guy around me, you know my history with that show....
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Clifford Unchained: The Problem with Sequels →
dudehugespeaks:
Because when you break up with someone you romanticize the highs, the sweet sweet moments when you fell for that person, not the lows, the horrid moments when you knew this person wasn’t right for you.
That’s Cliffy B, the creator of Gears of War, talking about the internal struggle of videogame sequels. Definitely worth a click through and a read.
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Directions
You know how some people can’t ask for directions? Like if they’re lost, instead of stopping and asking someone for help, they just keep driving until they stumble upon where they need to be, or get doubly lost? I guess with GPS and cell phones and Google Maps, this probably isn’t a common thing anymore, but I promise you, there was a time when it was the number four most used...
Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a... →
Interesting read concerning the design philosophy at Google and how they’ve drastically improved the look of their apps over the last couple years. I want to work at a place that works like this.
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Research, Mistakes, or Procrastination?
Being a writer—or any type of creative person—allows one certain life excuses, whether they are justified or not. Social awkwardness, alcoholism, excessive drug use—I have seen these all excused with “Oh, he’s an artist.” My personal favorite variety of this, the one I fall back on most often myself, is the wide-reaching concept of “RESEARCH.”
In my...
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Why TV Shows Get Bad
I’ve been watching the final season of The Office, and it’s been very painful and stressful and unfunny for me, and I’m not sure why. As each episode drags us closer to the finale, it seems they have been systematically destroying every relationship that I’ve spent the last eight years watching grow.
I was long a US Office denier. I loved the British show, and when it...
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GetGlue Gets Stuck
Today I got an e-mail from GetGlue announcing their long-awaited iPhone app update. My hope was that this would lead to the GetGlue app finally taking advantage of my iPhone 5’s extra screen real estate. My fear was that it would follow in the steps of the recent GetGlue iPad update and gut many of the features that I found useful in the app. ALL OF MY HOPES AND FEARS HAVE COME TRUE, YOU...
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“He says the differences between a movie, which he describes as a focused...”
– J.J. Abrams drops clues about his completely new game with Valve | Polygon
So, the news came out today that J.J. Abrams and Valve are working on things together. That means a new gaming IP and movies for Portal and Half-Life. They’re at least exploring the ideas. But to me, that isn’t...
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From Nothing to You in 10 Sentences – Starts With... →
Nice quick article that tells you how the universe became the universe became you. Important to know where we came from.
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“Neil, don’t do that. If you get loud, everyone else gets louder to top...”
– Clive Barker’s advice to Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman’s Journal: The Best Advice
January 2013
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In the Shadows - Features - Atlanta Magazine →
Really interesting, well-written, and depressing article about one of DragonCon’s co-founders, who has been molesting kids and avoiding trial for a couple of decades.
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WatchA super interesting look at how Homer Simpson, a satire of the American male in pop culture, had to shift his character as The Simpsons itself changed the American male in pop culture.
I should probably spend the rest of today watching The Simpsons.
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The Chinese Version Of 'Friends' Is Called 'Planet... →
This is all kinds of incredible.
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I got the cat job.
October 16, 2007
Haha. Memories.
Also, I called it in 2007:
what if one day, I get up, and pictures of cats aren’t funny anymore?What then?
— Adam Dorsey (@adamdorsey) December 28, 2007
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