Things tagged with gaming:

Blizzard are evil with this whole “download client” idea. Stretching back to the original Starcraft, you can download the game online as long as you have a valid CD key. It’s amazing. Worst of all? World of Warcraft is only $5 to buy. That’s pure evil. I never want to touch that game again, it…

I have largely excused myself from updating this blog. I have these ideas to write about but they don’t congeal into a blog post. I get wrapped up thinking about how I would write it, how others would read it and how much time it would waste. Like the great Rands says, “If blogging is…

I really just don’t have it in me to keep blogging right now. Here is a photo of my first-cousin-once-removed, Isabella. She just turned two and will probably grow to know me as “that Uncle that lives in America”. Isabella’s second birthday So the reasons: 1. Work is busy Last few weeks it was shit…

I think I’ve probably been thinking too much about Forza Motorsport 2. One notable aspect is that all my metaphors are now based around car racing. Whether I’m dealing with the absolute clusterfuck that is human relationships or pontificating the appeal of open source technologies to start-ups, my mind wanders to metaphors about friction, cornering,…

What have I been up to lately? Pfft, sweet fuck all. I am enjoying playing Forza Motorsport 2 though. I’m enjoying it so much that I look at roads and try to draw imaginary racing lines. But I’m not in anyway a good fast or knowledgeable driver. Just today I realized that AWD makes things…

I just bought a new Xbox 360. There are lots of things to do with it. Add me to your friends list! I am KleptoJack and I need fellow newbies to compete against. Send me a message so I know how you found me. :) My sad gamerscore :( 1. Stop Spending I know, I…