Another week, another column… I think I might like doing this. It’s like a constant stream of thought every week. I’m adding a new category this time… K-pop, by which I mean everything to do with Korean popular culture, including TV shows, music, gossip and others. This week’s entertainment was largely dominated by anime/manga, games, [...]
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Ah… the winners for the Independent Games Festival (which is something like the game industry’s equivalent of the Cannes Film Festival) were just announced. Carneyvale: Showtime, which was nominated as one of the Grand Prize Finalists, didn’t win. Blueberry Garden won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize instead. Congratulations to them, and well done!
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So… I just recently went over to Popseoul to have a look at what’s been happening in the Korean media industry, and I find two pieces of information that has surprised and shocked me. 1) Shin ae is getting married. To someone other than Alex. Within 6 months of dating him. In June 2009. Ah, [...]
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This is the first of a bunch of posts regarding my insights gained after a week-and-a-half of playing three simulation games in succession. We’ll start with the simplest and shallowest of insights: what I perceive to be the real dangers of simulation games. I’ll first talk about the reasons why its’ important to think about, [...]
So I just did a couple of IQ tests for fun… It turns out that I have an age-adjusted IQ score of 135. Which puts me in the “Gifted” category, in the top 2.14% of all test-takers (assuming the population of the Earth follows a normal distribution and the average score is 100). My strongest [...]
