A well written yet ultimately boring stroll. As you may remember I read the third in the ‘Three Body Problem’ series first due to some “I’m an idiot” but enjoyed it a great deal anyway. I had to have a cool-off period where I read some more of the highly enjoyable but terrible Emerilia series…
Month: March 2021
Loop Hero. So Damned Good.
Loop Hero should be boring. If you describe Loop Hero to someone it doesn’t even sound like a real game. It sounds like a joke. A half-baked phone game port, which should be in the same category as a million other terrible ideas on Steam. It’s got all the warning signs. Pixel art, low-fi, lack…
Keeping a Beat
I have recently been introduced to “Swatch Internet time” a time keeping system thought up by Swatch (the wrist watch people) as part of a strange advertising campaign linked to the Nation.1 Project. The Nation.1 project was another terrible idea that may or may not have been some kind of odd marketing company’s nefarious workings….
Book Club: AJ Raffles
Historical Awareness. It is my belief that the finest written works of mankind are firmly behind us not ahead. It sees as time goes by the human ability to write with an elegant and apparently effortless poetic bent is a thing of the past. When I read things written very recently I am often frustrated…