Monthly Archives: July 2005

Jul
12
2005

Rush Limbaugh On the London Bombings

The other day on his show, Rush Limbaugh made the statement: “It’s like I said — 40 people dead, 150 seriously wounded, 1,000 wounded, out of over 1 million people in that transit tube. It’s not a successful terrorist attack, folks.”
For some reason, a lot of people are up-in-arms about this, and they really shouldn’t [...]

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Jul
11
2005

Immersion in Modern Games

The video games we play have advanced seemingly exponentially in terms of their technological complexity, and therefore the complexity necessary to create such advanced pieces of software. Why then hasn’t the immersion of these games, on average, advanced alongside of everything else? When I pick up a new game to play, I feel just as [...]

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Jul
11
2005

The Pool of Gaming Familiarity

In the last decade, video games have become more and more like movies than their old-age makers could ever have even thought of. We have games like Halo 2 which are so big, expensive, and popular that it can generate more money in a single day than any blockbuster movie could ever hope to bring [...]

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Jul
11
2005

New Articles

Since you all have been so patient, and since I don’t know when I’ll have such a peaceful and calm writing environment as I do right now during my last night of being home before I go back to the dorms, I will write two new articles tonight for the site, both centered on game [...]

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Jul
08
2005

Kitty Goes Home

So, I’m actually home for the weekend, something that has happened a total of five times since I started college two years ago, and it’s a very, very welcome change from the dorm life. It’s quiet — no noise whatsoever, and it’s just nice to be back around my family along with the two little [...]

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Jul
03
2005

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No real update right now, I’m lazy.
But this is the greatest thing ever.

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