Its predecessor already left me with a feeling I also got from EVE Online – something really cool and interesting and yet… something isn’t right. So I downloaded and installed Planetside 2 a few days ago, and I’m here to tell you why I consider it a failure, and interestingly, that has little to do [...]
~ read more ~Breaking Habits
Earlier this year, I wrote about how most online advise sucks because it only tells you the obvious or the goal, but not how to get there. It leaves out precisely the part you need help with. So I am always very happy when I find a counter-example, like this one. Unlocking the Science of [...]
~ read more ~What is wrong with Prometheus? Everything.
I’ve just watched Ridley Scott’s inofficial Alien prequel and read a couple of the reviews online. And I came away being certain that those people must have seen a different movie. To make it short, Prometheus is horrible, and an insult to the Science Fiction genre and the Alien franchise. Set in the near future, [...]
~ read more ~Smoking Kids
I don’t post videos on this site, usually. This one is so brilliant, it deserves it: Indeed, the question is valid.
~ read more ~Guild Wars 2 – Concepts and Design
An unusul topic for this blog, but after the second beta weekend, it deserves some thoughts written out. Guild Wars 2 being one of the most anticipated games of the year, it will be reviewed and picked apart by thousands of blogs and hundreds of magazines. So this is not a review, but some specific [...]
~ read more ~Why we cheat
There are at least a million articles both on- and offline trying to explain why cheating happens constantly, even though the vast majority of us agree that it is bad. Most of the explanations are complex and unconvincing. And then comes this gem of an article, and explains the phenomenon in a simple, no-nonsense, straighforward [...]
~ read more ~Why Blog-Advise Sucks
While reading through yet another “hack your life” article, the feeling I’ve had for quite some time now solidified into something I could finally write down. This strange sensation I get when I read the sub-par scribbling that most of the “blogosphere” consists of. The drivel that is thickest and strongest in the same area [...]
~ read more ~Theft of intellectual property exists, after all
The words “piracy” and “theft” are being used by copyright holders as deragatory terms for copyright infringement. Of course, they are used wrongly, misappropriated from other contexts to evoke emotions that the sterile correct terms, such as “copyright infringement” or “unauthorized copying” do not. However, there is one condition in which the term “theft” actually [...]
~ read more ~Jesus Reconsidered
The central myth of christianity is the suffering and death of the alleged saviour, Jesus of Nazareth. Something in that story didn’t sit right with me, but I could never put my finger on it until today. No, it wasn’t that the story has glaring holes – that was expected, and stories about other famous [...]
~ read more ~Politicians are amateurs
For much of human history, government was bequeathed to the sons (usually) or daughters of those currently in power. Either they were kings with a direct lineage, or a relatively small aristocracy where while the actual distribution of responsibilities was subject to change, those in power were usually selected for being in power by the [...]
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