Bent on total word domination
I registered JasonMical.com in 2005 and intended to migrate this blog over there back then. Hey, 2012 isn’t too late to finish the job.There will be no more updates here. The show will go on at jasonmical.com.
My friend Roger Whitson pinged me early on Twitter yesterday and directed me to a post by Mark Sample on Play the Past: What Comes before the Platform: The Refuse of Video Games. It’s a good article and makes some very salient points about a side of ga…
I meant to write this post a month ago, but my experiences coming home for the holidays reminded me I never got around to it, and it seems like as good a time as any to put this down.What inspired this is the variety of reactions I get about losing wei…
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I started not understanding Occupy Wall Street’s purpose. I fell into the media trap of reciting a talking point: they have no message! But the more I spoke to members of the movement, people online, people at Occupy Seattle itself (yes, I’ve been a fe…
Because I’m trying to get away from subjecting my friends and family (OK, my family) on Facebook to my political views, I’ll post this here instead.One of my favorite little facts about America: those states who receive more federal money than they con…
Hey, did you know its National Novel Writing Month?I realize it’s supposed to be a way to motivate aspiring writers to actually get off their asses and, you know, write.For some reason it always turns into feelings of guilt and anxiety when I see a hal…
Blogging’s a funny thing. You don’t do it for more than a year, realizing you’ve just kind of left a part of yourself dangling out there (and let’s face it, a pretty esoteric closing post to boot.) Then you write one letter to Google and tell yourself …
Dear Google Plus and Reader Teams,I’ve been tracking closely the development of both Plus and Reader; I was excited to try the former and have been a long-time user of the later. Reader has been an important tool in my digital toolset for years; I use …
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Rather than “why?” I’d ask “how?”If I knew “how” I could do it myself and then I could figure out “why.”But then again my reasons would be different than His.
A higher difficulty level in a strategy game should mean that I’m playing against a smarter opponent who makes strategically sound moves.It should not mean that the rules of the game alter to favor my opponent, who is still playing as dumb as he was on…