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6 Weeks Away and Everything Changes
I go away for 6 weeks and everything here changes. Its a strange feeling. When you live in a place for so long, that everything seems in stasis but its not. Maybe I am just noticing something everyone knows about. So while I was away, my best friend Dmitri and his girlfriend Sarah got engaged.…
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The Plague (Part 1): Enemy at the Gates
Today I am blogging close to ground zero of a plague in progress. My younger brother become ill yesterday with a fever. While unfortunate, worse is the knowledge is that he rarely gets sick. When he does, the whole family usually falls ill too. A cause of concern for me, since this might turn out…
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Like a Sitcom
Yawn. Nothing is worse than a bad sitcom ending. Everything gets resolved into nice tidy way, and life proceeds as normal for the characters. Friday and today, many of my “issues” resolved themselves. Unlike a sitcom, this is not ending thankfully. I finally got my schedule in order. Everything from classes to study periods all…
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Serenity in Games
I found this post on Slashdot a few days ago. In essence, Jenova Chen a USC grad created a neat little game called Flow . Jenova wrote the Flash game for his thesis on “flow” or total immersion in games. A great game immerse a player so that the person does not feel like he…
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Life Again.
Nothing much happened today. Cleaned stuff around the house mostly. Watched two more game trailers, Team Fortress 2 and the new Half Life 2 Episode 2 trailer. Should make for some interesting games. But other than that, nothing. Not to say I didn’t have a productive Saturday. This upcoming week should make things speed up…
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Stepping Mania
Life has been pretty hectic recently. I guess basically it always was but I was too busy gaming to notice it. Talking about gaming I bought my first new game recently, HL2 Episode 1. Excellent game and loads of fun. Strangely very re-playable and Valve has worked hard on making the game believable with good…