Jay Barnson, in talking about the difficulty in rating open-ended videogames, has this to say:
After all, how WOULD the ESRB rate, say, the Star Trek holodeck?
Geeze. I bet Riker has a few password-protected holodeck programs that would make Larry Flynt blush.
He also has some great observations on Oblivion. Read the whole thing.
Civilization VI
I'm a very casual fan of the series, but I gave Civilization VI a look to see what was up with this nuclear war simulator.
The Witch Watch
My first REAL published book, about a guy who comes back from the dead due to a misunderstanding.
Hardware Review
So what happens when a SOFTWARE engineer tries to review hardware? This. This happens.
Deus Ex and The Treachery of Labels
Deus Ex Mankind Divided was a clumsy, tone-deaf allegory that thought it was clever, and it managed to annoy people of all political stripes.
Steam Summer Blues
This mess of dross, confusion, and terrible UI design is the storefront the big publishers couldn't beat? Amazing.
Ayup. Flower-picking simulator is about right.
(Goes back to copying blogs from DoSed server to the one that just has a flaky boot drive…)
(Goes back to copying blogs from DoSed server to the one that just has a flaky boot drive…)
I swear, mu.nu is the website equivalent of the Millenium Falcon.
Yeah, well. It’s better than the old server. Hardware RAID-1. Both drives failed at the same time.
I dunno about Ryker, but Lt. Barclay sure must have. We saw a couple of them, in fact.
I dunno about Ryker, but Lt. Barclay sure must have. We saw a couple of them, in fact.
This is why it is always important to clear program history (and mop up) after using the holodeck.
BTW: Barclay was my favorite Star Trek character. He wasn’t one of the relentlessly beautiful, talented, highly-motivated super-people. He had flaws. He was far more real to me than most of the main characters.
Yeah, there were times when he was painful to watch, because I empathized with him too much. The one episode where he got to cut loose as a super-genius was funny, just for contrast.
Gotta agree with you, Shamus… Barclay was the only character with flaws (at least until one achieved the rank of Starfleet admiral and went insane) in the entire series. Most of the rest of the plastic, perfect people never really interested me, and I think it’s one of the reasons I never got into TNG very much. Other than Barclay, the only characters that seemed human were the ones who weren’t.