With the update to Google Now including a card showing past research, all my topics over the last week: Fallout 3, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Google Music, Daft Punk, Arkham Asylum, Android phones, Game of Thrones, Metacritic ratings, Joss Whedon’s SHIELD, Xbox headsets, Cabin in the Woods and omelette recipes.
Short version: I’m a huge nerd…hold up I’m hungry.
— David Fury (@TheDavidFury) May 4, 2013
2nd with @julietlandau and james Marsters. #spike&dru2getheragain. twitter.com/TheDavidFury/s…
— David Fury (@TheDavidFury) May 4, 2013
Stronghold HD (PC)
Syberia (PC)
Bastion New Game+ (Xbox)
Theme Hospital (PC)
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.” - Joss Whedon
(via fuckyeahjosswhedon)
Theme Hospital (PC) - This game is ridiculous and fun as hell.
Stronghold HD (PC) - Also loving this game, about halfway through the combat campaign.
Sims 3 (PC) - Started a brand new game with Buffy Summers (brave, hopeless romantic star athlete) and Willow Rosenberg (genius, computer hacker, forensic specialist) as roomies.
FTL: Faster Than Light (PC) - Just started it this morning as I’m feeling ill and needed something to do on my laptop; so far I am loving it. I’ve destroyed my ship at least 5 times but I keep starting over again. Ton of potential here.
Bioshock (Xbox) - Got stuck at a Big Daddy fighting part last week and so I’ve been ignoring this game for now while I play my simulation/strategy games.
Samsung Galaxy S4 event - notable things I came away with after watching the live stream on The Verge:
1. Display is 5” (my phone is 4.7” and it is nearly impossible to navigate games with one hand) so I’m going to need bigger hands.
2. The camera is 13mp and the camera software features are crazy (can take 100 photos in 4 seconds and composite them, erase people out of photos, add yourself into photos using the dual cameras, add your voice to photos, etc).
4. 8 core processor (is that really necessary?) with 1080p display.
3. You can navigate photos/web pages by moving your hand in the air over the phone (so feel free to eat Cheetos now while browsing).
4. The phone tracks your damn eyeballs. If you are watching a video and look away from the phone, it automatically pauses the video. When you look back, it registers your eyeballs and automatically resumes.
Most used words in /r/Anxiety/ (http://redditmuws.tumblr.com/)
Games added to my collection this year:
(All on sale so I paid less than $25 for the lot)
Theme Hospital (PC) from GoG
Stronghold HD (PC) from Amazon
Ticket to Ride bundle (PC) from Amazon
Tropico 4 bundle (PC) from Steam
Bioshock 1 from (Xbox) from XBLM
Just heard of a thing called the Supreme Court Justice baby name test.
When coming up with a baby name say it out loud in this format “Supreme Court Justice (First) (Middle)”. I don’t have children so I just used my dog’s name and “Supreme Court Justice Sarah Weiner” made me giggle, so she was doomed from the start in her political aspirations.
I was thinking about The Bechdel Test and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I love the LotR movies, just upgraded the DVD’s to Bluray a few weeks ago, but they all fail the Bechdel Test. For over 9 hours (or whatever the entire run-time of the trilogy is) there are never two named women who have a conversation. This does not affect my enjoyment of LotR, it just surprised me that I had never noticed this before because I really don’t expect big movies to have meaningful interaction between female characters. I’m still going to watch the crap out of The Hobbit but my expectations, or at least my awareness, has shifted.
