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Friday, November 14th, 2008
shift in video game target audiences
video games have evolved a great deal since their introduction a few decades ago, and to me, the past couple of years have shown an interesting shift in the popular video game trend and its audience that feels like its bringing the entire history of video gaming around full circle.
in its infancy, “video game” meant […]
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
the old versus new facebook generation (no, not the layout change)
Very recently more people from my high school years have been finding me on facebook and friending me. When this first started happening, i was wary to accept their requests, mainly because the people who i’m still friends with from my high school i still keep in contact with, so why would i start […]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
initial conceptual thoughts/personal notes about my choir piece
it’s odd to think that my first “real” music project in several years is using an aesthetic that i’ve never felt comfortable with - singing and piano accompaniment. One of the last works i wrote as a masters student, Remembrance, is the only serious vocal piece i’ve ever written, and i think i got […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
gustav: the overhype of the century
i’ve always had a pretty healthy disregard for television news and rolling news channels in particular (CNN, Headline News, etc.) but it wasn’t until i watched Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe special on news that i could understand my distaste for it in concrete terms. Now whenever rolling news tries to put itself in the spotlight […]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
the evolution of advertising
one of the big reasons i prefer downloading telly on the internet is because rippers will take any adverts out of the downloadable files. Resultingly i haven’t watched a steady stream of telly commercials in about five years, and thus feel outside of that aspect of what i’m calling “advertising […]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Doctor/companion dynamic in New Who
One of the marked differences between Classic Who and New Who is the role of the Doctor to his companions. Companions of the Doctor have always been made better people because of the Doctor, but in Classic Who, the Doctor was more of a father figure and mentor to his […]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
overcoming granular limitations of the stepmania editor
Above is one of the charts i’m more proud of from DSR Squared, a refined version of some earlier attempts at the BPM speed up/freeze effect i’ve used in a few other historical charts. Someone had asked about the details of the construction of the chart to which i gave a brief answer as it […]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
when whac-a-mole goes digital
i’ve found that the easiest way to explain Pop’n Music to someone who doesn’t know anything about it is to say, “it’s basically a much more complicated version of Whac-a-Mole.” and on the surface, this seems a decent analogy because you have to hit the nine buttons at a particular time, and the configuration […]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
backtrack on trackbacks
so there have been a few times when people have linked some of my writings here, and as such, i would get trackback notifications. until today i didn’t understand what was going on, and thought it was just botspam attempting to create a malicious external link.
oops.
i guess this hurts me more than anything else as […]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
mutli-episode stories in the New Who
In the history of the revived Doctor Who series, there have been ten multi-episode stories thus far. If we classify these multi-episode stories into three rough categories of “hits”, “misses”, and “neutrals”, most of them frustratingly fall into the category of misses than anything else. The most recent two-parter helps to […]