Joshua on March 23rd, 2009

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, [...]

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Joshua on March 22nd, 2009

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 [...]

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Joshua on March 9th, 2009

While reading through articles and reviews about CarneyVale: Showtime, I was reminiscing about some earlier thoughts I had regarding circus games. One of my favourite games to play on the NES, back when I was still a boy, was Circus Charlie. I used to spend hours in front of the TV screen at my cousin’s [...]

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Joshua on March 6th, 2009

Recently over the last few months, I’ve been getting more into Korean pop culture… mainly because of the Korean romantic comedy reality TV series “We Got Married”. Then I spun off to have a look at Korean pop bands. Lately, I’ve been tracking two of the current most popular girl groups in Korea – the [...]

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Joshua on March 3rd, 2009

Today was a great day. I spent almost the entire day with God or with friends. The highlight of my day was in the afternoon when I met up with my soul sister Catherine to celebrate her birthday over lunch. We talked and shared for nearly 3 and a half hours straight… It’s really wonderful [...]

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