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Licensing run rampant

See Tyler.
See Tyler run.
See Tyler run to set the game developer facility on fire.
They didn’t even pay attention to the no shirt, no shoes rule.

Paying for The Street

Feel free to consider what follows hearsay, since I haven’t actually played any of these games myself.
While the idea of the full virtual-reality immersion of The Street in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash is alluring from a software-toy point of view, what’s really attractive for me is its ability to grow beyond what the original founders […]

Linux on X-Box

This is nasty even by Penny Arcade standards.

Christmas, the time for giving

Don’t know what to get for the geek in your life this Christmas? How about an 1800-years-old d20? It will surely make all the lesser plastic-cast recently-molded dice cower in fear.
Now, if I only had $6k to throw away, that puppy would be coming home to Rohrmoser faster than you can say critical […]

Off(line) I go

For those wondering about Gigabyte’s tech support, I still haven’t heard back from them.
I was unable to test the motherboard with Esteban’s Athlon processor, since it was an Athlon XP and my cretacean GA-7ZXR is only the first revision (thus XP-less). Considering other things, however, like the fact that the motherboard is beeping and […]