Author Archives: derrick

DRM Q&A

I’m not a fan of
DRM, I think it’s mostly ineffective and can potentially annoy legitimate customers more than anyone else.  It might help sales a little to not have your game all over every torrent site on the day of release or before, but beyond that I don’t think there’s much you can do.  [...]

Games 9/27: Wipeout HD, Burnout Paradise

I never played a Wipeout game before Wipeout HD, but I am a fan of the F-Zero series. Wipeout HD is not dissimilar to F-Zero. It feels more floaty than F-Zero, but it’s not that far off. Another difference is the presence of weapons, but in my experience so far they don’t [...]

TV 9/25: The Mentalist

The Mentalist is a new show on CBS, the pilot episode debuted a couple days ago.  It’s about a guy whose observational skills are so sharp that people would assume he’s a psychic if he let them.  He used to make money doing
John Edward (biggest douche in the universe) style shows, now he works [...]

TV and Movie 9/24 – House, Heroes, The Fall

I downloaded The Fall on a whim.  Never heard of it before, but it was in the HD section of my movie download source and it has a pretty good rating on IMDb so I figured I’d give it a shot.  Usually when I do this I watch about 5 minutes of the movie [...]

Movies 9/23/08 – Awake; Redbelt; War, Inc.

Normally I’d just post this type of thing on the forums’ movie thread, but I figured I’ve got a blog I might as well use it.

Awake has a premise that seems interesting but they just use it as a backdrop for a mediocre thriller.  The premise is that a small percentage of people are [...]

Letting go of your Apple hate

Recently I’ve been caring less about everything on my computer being customized and tweaked to my exact needs.  I think that attitude was my main problem with all things Apple.  Their products generally come out of the box the way they are and stay that way forever.  iTunes for example, will always have an interface [...]

Dude you ate my head ha ha

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This would be awful anyway, but I’m also sad to see Michael from The Wire in a new version of 90210.  On the other hand his acting here is pretty awful.  Maybe he’s lucky [...]

More Wacky Developers

It’s nice to see developers who aren’t
giant douchebags with no humility or sense of humor.

The Last Guy

I’m not sure the game is all that special but the developers seem awesomely insane!  (even though these are likely not the actual developers..they still had to create this video!  Ok fine some marketing person at Sony is awesomely insane.)

Denis Dyack

As much as it is possible to hate a man I will never meet and that has not killed a close friend or family member, that is how much I hate Denis Dyack.  And that was before I saw this
interview with him on OXM (via
Destructoid).  This is the part where he’s explaining why [...]