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Dishonoured is a new stealth-and-stab-em-up from Arkane and Bethesda, that follows in the footsteps of amazing work by Thief, Deus Ex, and other such titans.
The core game follows Corvo and his quest of revenge and redemption against a dark world of Victorian breeding. To spoil as little plot as possible, you are protector of the Empress, falsely accused of her murder.
continue reading...I’ve tried a few times to write reviews of the cellphones I use, and they always come out fractured, full of tortured metaphor and half-coherent ranting.
This post isn’t going to be that. I want to talk about the phones I have used, why I moved from them, and what I’m really looking for when rant-fueled words tumble forth.
continue reading...So I was reading this article today, wherein a gentleman discussed how he finds programming to be a task filled with constant negative reinforcement.
He has a good point. Programming is most frequently debugging, incremental progress towards an easily-misplaced goal. Run the code, it crashes, see where you fucked up.
continue reading...So I’ve been on ADN for a few weeks now; most recently active once good clients for iOS started to come out.
Thus far, my preference is on Felix, an elegant little app that implements a lot of the niceties of modern app design; it reminds me a lot of Reeder. NetBot also came out recently, and we’ve seen a huge swell of new users. I’d call these two the top apps at the moment.
continue reading...So, yesterday, Valve Software announced that their cloud distribution service, Steam, was going to provide applications for purchase and download.
Steam began life as a distribution service for Counter-Strike in 2002, but really came in to its own for Half Life 21. Valve, at the time, was trying to get around difficulties in publishing software updates.
continue reading...So I got back from the UK about a month ago, which was a wonderful trip that took me to meet my partner’s family and parents and experience the general loveliness of the British Isles.
I learned that Wales is lovely, if a bit trolly, the Lake District is phenomenal, and that London is hugely WTF and very different from everywhere else.
continue reading...So once upon a time I was a member of the Postgres community, and spent a goodly while at conferences talking about Python stuff that I worked on.
Most of those things aren’t really useful anymore, but taught me a great deal about database technologies, and open source in general.
continue reading...For a long time I’ve had a split Aperture library - The “original” library on an external hard drive, 500GB of dedicated space just for my photos.
The reasons for that are historic, from a time when I didn’t have endless gigabytes of space for RAW files on my desktop. I maintained the distinction for a long time, dragging a hard drive and power supply around with me on trips.
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