The Streisand Effect: the gift that keeps on giving.

That screen shot came up on my monitor, and I felt this enormous rush of nostalgia. As I once wrote someone many years ago, “When I want to get in touch with my inner child, I boot up Doom.” And I was an adult when it came out. :-)

Now I have issues. Sweet mother of karma.

Both Dishonored and Tomb Raider (2014) are games that I re-install every six months or so and play through again.

I’ve never thought a FPS POV for a movie made sense; the few times it has shown up (e.g., in “Doom”), it doesn’t work well at all. This just confirms that.

Assuming I have any time free, I’ll play XCOM 2 with the new patch installed. I’ve dropped back to Veteran difficulty for my first campaign with the new patch until I get a sense of just how their ‘rebalancing’ and ‘tweaks’ affect gameplay.

Good point, but that was about a decade ago. SD Comic-Con was quite different a decade ago as well.

I think the folks behind E3 are missing a sure opportunity by keeping it industry-only (vs. letting in end-users). I think the absolute explosion of the San Diego Comic-Con over the past 15 years provides a model for an opportunity to make E3 bigger and more relevant, particularly with the increasing ties between…

My reaction to them nerfing the mimic beacon.

Not a Trump supporter, but...does anyone actually care what Keith Olbermann says anymore? Frankly, I’m a bit surprised even the WaPo gave him op-ed space.

XCOM 2 and the early access Master of Orion.

So far, I’ve been quite enjoying the show, but then again I’m Mormon, which a lot of Evangelicals think is the Church of the Devil anyway. :-)

...anyone who rages at missing point-blank shots due to dice rolls.

tl;dr: Yeah, the term is condescending and exists for no good reason, and XCOM 2's own problems make saving a great idea.

My wife and I have been rolling our eyes about this for years. We’ve moved often enough over the past 30 years, almost always as renters (including 6 years in Washington DC ItsVerySelf) to have a keen sense of housing costs. Beyond that, she’s been watching HGTV-type shows since before HGTV existed. So when some TV…

I’m happily married, and big whooping sirens went off at the first mention of Rob and Sarah sleeping together (and the sirens never stopped; they just got much louder). Run, run, woman, run, and run fast and far. There are no happy ending here.

XCOM-2. And probably more of it than I should, given everything else I need to get done this weekend.

I reached the final mission on my 2nd campaign (I dropped the first pretty early on as a ‘learning experience’). However, I’ve run into problems, and I when I go back to load saves made during the final mission itself, the whole computer freezes up. I can go back to my just-before-the-final-mission save, load that,…

Yeah, I had this happen once. I’ve been a bit more careful ever since. :-)

An observation on Ironman vs. non-Ironman. Some 30-35 years ago, when video game arcades were a Big Thing, a group of us (all techno types, friends from high school a decade earlier) would go out every Wednesday night to the Yellow Brick Road arcade in San Diego. My friend Wayne Holder, who organized these…