May 2011
1 post
GAmeR: The Self-Entitlement Proxy (Sony Doesn't... →
March 2011
3 posts
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Rethinking my position on iPad 2...
While I agree that as an overall presentation, the advent of the ipad2 is underwhelming compared to it’s predecessor, many have apparently missed a couple of important points on the positive and negative side.
First, during the presentation, aside from tech industry competitor misquotes (Samsung reported “smooth sales” not “small sales”), there were a slew of “quantity...
IPad 2
Sure, it’s got improvements and those improvements are needed - but only to stay ahead of the competitors; not that I’m chiding the concept, but c’mon, don’t make it more than what it is: an ultra light duty laptop sans attached kb.
Speaking of…
So far, my favorite part about reading the live blogging going on, is how reportedly the conference opened up with a...
College
If my return to college is teaching me anything substantive, it is that other people are dumber than I had assumed.
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Also, a note to my Research Writing lab partner:
Picking a topic isn’t pulling half the project load. Neither is adding your name to the paper as an author.
February 2011
2 posts
October 2010
2 posts
http://fairchild6.com/blogs/justice/shawn-gordon-2/ http://fb.me/LsYwRqQJ
Opinion: And Justice for Whom?
Enemy of the State by Game Informer Associate Editor, Matt Miller, was a piece of great interest to me. Legal issues in the gaming sub-culture are important and opportunity to honestly discuss how or why these laws will affect jobs, hobbies, or passion abound. Sadly, what articles tend to lack in proper focus and scope, is made up for in shock and hyperbole. The latter is the reason I found...
September 2010
3 posts
http://fairchild6.com/news/news-rumors/rumor-box-molyneuxs-milo-longer-kintected/source-material-2-2/ http://fb.me/vz0ujmM5
Win 1 of 10 iPads from @LightCMS - RT to enter or read more http://speaklight.com/iPad
August 2010
6 posts
I’d like to apologize to any user that suffered with the ‘redirect hack’ our wordpress site was subject to. The… http://fb.me/xKCA1myA
An Idea, I has one...
So, in wirting this book about the debate on video game violence I’ve come across several interviews and article detailing the fact that aside from puzzle games few if any, games contain no violence.
I love violence in my games, but perhaps that’s because I don’t know games without them. I might like a game that is non-violent that is also a non-puzzle game, and so might...
http://fairchild6.com/blogs/war-abstract-nouns-debate-video-game-violence-is-wrong/shawn-gordon-2/ http://fb.me/Bt10stQX
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War on Abstract Nouns: How the Debate on Video... →
Terms like violent rapidly transform from a simple adjective and become the centerpiece for a war – a war on an abstract noun. The first and usually most important casualty of any war is grammar. Semantics and context, which lead to understanding facts, take a back seat to private agenda and spiral into a culture war.
A sharp contrasting departure from previous culture wars involving a ...
Karm City: Some reports are coming out that... →
Some reports are coming out that Android devices are outselling iPhones, which spells doom for Apple. I think it’s an unfair assessment. Besides the fact that Verizon, the primary provider of Android devices, is much larger than AT&T, there are also dozens of Android phones available on several…
Unfair? I do believe Apple made the conscious choice to limit which service provider...
"Writing" a "book" - the intro (1 page of around...
The effects and affects of violence in video games on society and its individual members has been a long drawn out debate. From the days of Wolfenstein 3D onward, parents, psychologists, and politicians continue to claim that children exposed to violent video games are more prone to acting out in violence. Is there any merit to these claims and if so, to what extent?
Is video game violence...
July 2010
9 posts
Karm City: Define: placebo effect →
Engadget: “…in our testing, we had far, far fewer dropped calls than we experienced on our 3GS. Let’s just say that again: yes, the iPhone 4 does seem to alleviate the dropped call issue.” Apple Insider: “the overwhelming majority of reviews are reporting that iPhone 4 has significantly better…
Citizen journalism seems do be doing okay… might want to check out Brian Ford’s...
Butler and Molyneux walk into a bar...
What if Peter Molyneux and Kevin Butler, walked into a bar, sat down and began talking candidly about Kinect and Move? I imagine it would play out something like this:
Butler: Hey Pete, how’s that uh, that third grade science fair project coming… what is it (snaps finger and does the ‘pistol Pete point’) Kinex… Kix…. Kleenex?
Molyneux: “KinecT”, Kev, “KinecT” (with distinct emphasis on the...
Waking Up
There are those who wake up to the wonderful aroma of brewing coffee. There are those awaken to the sweet smell of cooking bacon. There are even those who rise to the scent of cinnamon rolls. I… I my friends, wake up to the odoriferous wash of cat shit.
Like Pavlov’s Dog before him, my cat’s bowels are for one reason or another triggered by the sound of my alarm clock....
Chiropractor Visit, First Time
I awoke with a pinched nerve (I think) on Tuesday… hurt for two days. Normally I don’t like going to the Dr… but the pain was intense enough that I honestly gave serious thought to punching my wife in the face simply for speaking to me (I didn’t, nor did I give any indication that even the attitude had manifested).
I made an appointment with a chiropractor… this...
Karm City: One downside of multitasking on the... →
You have to force-quit apps that continue to run when they shouldn’t. I used a background-enabled GPS app during my drive home from NYC to Baltimore this weekend. After I got home, and the app had announced that I had “arrived at my destination,” it continued to try to recalculate the route as I…
That’s sort of the problem Windows Mobile had. I think in the long run though, the...
Apple didn't break your car stereo
Normally, I’d love to take a case against Apple, primarily because I’m an asshole and like to bitch, however in this rare instance I think the growing number of people complaining about how iOS4 ‘broke’ their car stereo are full of shit.
I won’t get into how Apple isn’t the one breaking your stereo single handedly… I will say that I think Apple does...
June 2010
4 posts
The mirror
Every now and again I catch myself wincing at myself in the mirror. It’s not so much that I’m unhappy about who and what I’ve become, but disappointed I’m not who I might have been.
Impressions of the Big 3 at E3 →
Just last week I was sitting on my porch drinking my evening Earl Grey, and as the hot southern Georgia sun began to gently lick the barren plains en passe to its nightly resting place beneath the horizon, thought to myself:
“What this industry needs to more fluffed up franchised generic shooters, gimmicky peripherals, and contrived ’services’ selling things we already own or never use. I really...
Review: ModNation Racers →
April 2010
3 posts
Security
karmcity:
Jimmy Carter is 85 now. What if full blown dementia hits him over the head tomorrow and his cleaning lady suddenly knows the real reason why the US gave back the Panama Canal?
Are there policies in place that protect state secrets from being uttered by senile ex-presidents?
I think they call that, disavow and an assassin. I mean, if the ex-president is senile and says anything,...
Interview: James Kochalka & PixelJAM on Upcoming... →
American Elf creator James Kochalka and the guys from PixelJAM, Inc. (Rich Grillotti and Miles Tilmann), were kind enough to grant me an interview with them about Glorkian Warrior, how they met up, their concepts and the design philosophy for the game. I really love when a plan comes together, and in this two part interview, you’ll see what and why the forthcoming Glorkian Warrior is a treat...
Kotick: WoW Servers to Close Incrementally, New... →
March 2010
6 posts
Interview: Indie Developer Jason Wishnov of... →
I had an opportunity to sit down with Jason Wishnov and unload a volley of questions pertaining to Sequence and what went into this project, which he was gracious enough to answer for me. It’s an interesting concept worth checking out
Review: Final Fantasy XIII →
Final Fantasy XIII struck me as a bountiful mix of X, X-2, VII, XII with story style impact undertones of VI and turned out much better than over critical fanatic internet naysayers tried to get people to believe. From start to finish the overall feeling of Final Fantasy was an upward slope. It started out on the precipice of disappointment, and upon taking that flight players hit a proverbial...
Acclaimed LittleBigPlanet Developer Media Molecule... →
Rethinking Apple and Gaming →
A few months ago, the idea of Apple and gaming had been passed around the blogosphere and it started a small fire that’s continued to smolder and reignite. People got excited and began the rounds of conjecture; bickering over if they will or if they won’t, tossing about ideas of what they should and shouldn’t do and even started to photoshop pretty pictures of what it could look...
February 2010
2 posts
A Cast of Characters That Suck →
That’s right - I said “suck” in a post that has both Master Chief, Link, AND Soap MacTavish
No Ma'am: Gender Superficiality →
January 2010
12 posts
PS3 Users More Mature? Maybe. →
Quit Bitching →
3DTV Needs To Leave My Games The Hell Alone →
Has Gaming Become Unjustly More Expensive Than We... →
On Survival
I was watching a movie last night. I forget what it was about but it took place in deep space. The main character had to go outside of the spacecraft to repair some thingamabob, and I made a shocking discovery - there was rust. I then proceeded to try and figure out a plausible explanation as to how in the fuck something rusts in deep space… in the meantime the main character was more...
Fairchild VI - Episode 2 →
Ron Jeremy VS Video Games →
Ron Jeremy Defends Porn by way of bashing Video games.
On Being an Asshole.
I get it, okay! I’m an asshole. I tell most people I’ve ever met that I am, in fact, an asshole. Somewhere in that conversation they express disbelief, and I warn them a second time, “Hey, be careful, I’m telling you, I’m an asshole.”
Again, they politely decline belief in my words. Then, at some point usually after some kind of argument and I lose my temper...
Now Boarding: 32nm Mobile Gaming Train →
Consoles like the XB360 use PC architectures and Sony’s recent statement about possibly moving to a PC setup and abandoning the RISC / PPC &”Cell” for a more developer friendly PC setup can be hugely effected by this development; more importantly, Apple and other mobile devices could start seeing major improvements upon their ability to play solid full on game titles.