The arsenal, gathering dust…
Quick sketches of some of the many characters I’ve portrayed in real-time online roleplaying (on OtherSpace and elsewhere) over the years:
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Long time hooked…
Zork was my gateway drug. Using a relatively basic command parser, this text-only computer adventure game by Infocom allowed a single player to explore a grid of rooms, solving puzzles and gathering treasure, all the while trying to avoid being devoured by a grue in dark chambers. I had no idea when I first played Zork, back…
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You had one job to do…
Few things get my eye twitching like I’m Chief Inspector Dreyfus in “The Pink Panther” than a lead in a newspaper article like this: “Fifty people gathered together at GreenSpacePark on Saturday for the Shiny Happy Music Festival.” It’s not that an opening sentence such as this is technically wrong. The problem instead is that…
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Men Without Hats, Men With Vision
Here’s a goofy essay that I wrote on the web back in 2003. Saving it here for posterity: In 1983, the United States was under the grip of a brutal dictator with a penchant for jellybeans and happy-go-lucky quips about nuclear annihilation in close proximity to live microphones. Betamax videocassette recorders were the rage. And…