The Ephemeral Notebook » Uncategorized http://blog.oizys.com The Game Design, Science, Rants, and Thoughts of Aaron Matthew Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:43:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Neuro http://blog.oizys.com/post/274 http://blog.oizys.com/post/274#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:01:49 +0000 aaronm http://blog.oizys.com/post/274 A couple quick links on the brain happened close together so I thought I’d group them here:

Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain
A great discussion about back channel and multitasked learning
A bunch of links about games and neuroanthropology

and because no post is complete without cats:
House cats and psychological purring

]]> http://blog.oizys.com/post/274/feed 0 Pre-post GDC post http://blog.oizys.com/post/111 http://blog.oizys.com/post/111#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:36:57 +0000 aaronm http://blog.oizys.com/?p=111 Thus concludes a great GDC09.  My flight back is tomorrow and I’m looking forward to being home and going through my contacts list and posting a full recap.

]]> http://blog.oizys.com/post/111/feed 0 Darkfail http://blog.oizys.com/post/78 http://blog.oizys.com/post/78#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:25:39 +0000 aaronm http://blog.oizys.com/?p=78 Ryan Shwayder over at Nerfbat made me laugh yesterday morning with:

“But I’m so hardcore that I was finally able to give them my money after nearly two weeks of trying.” and  “They invented Browser-Refresh-PvP, so maybe more of their ideas will be awesome.”

… regarding the horrorfilm that is Darkfall Online, which I can only imagine will be like an virtual version of what would happen if you skimmed off the 17-and-older population of 4chan and somethingawful (with a strong leaning towards 20s+ ex-uo types) and threw them into a giant Darkon match with boffers of their choice – which is to say, not as entertaining as the non-virtual version of said experience.

I’ve always wondered where the testosterone-gamer obsession with being hardcore comes from – probably not too far off from where those boffer weapons come from.  It just reminds me a lot of:

I'm so goth I shit bats


If only there was a more appropriate macro.  Oh wait, here it is:

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Baww, it even has a sandbox.

That being said, feel free to let me know how it is… I want to play it not to prove how hardcore I am, but for the same reason that people search the internet for 2 girls 1 cup.  On that note someone should make 2 guilds 1 server.  Oh wait, EVE already did, nevermind :)

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