Yeesh, this is amazing. I got nothin’ else.
No Man’s Sky – Crushing Loneliness
This is a pretty great honest review for No Man’s Sky. My favorite quote: “At least they got one part of space exploration right: crushing loneliness.”
Dark Crabs 3
We’ve been radio silent lately because we’re all addicted to Dark Souls 3. As such, here’s vid of DS3 with all textures replaced with crabs (HT Todd).
This dude made a working 1KB hard drive… in Minecraft
The title really says it all, check this shit out (HT Reddit, natch).
UPDATE: Apparently, this is child’s play. People are making actual computers now, and have been for some time. There are extensive wikipedia articles on it. SMH, it’s so meta I can’t stand it.
Uh, Josh – I could use some help here
What the fuck is going on in Kojima’s new game?
I’d better clean the dust off my WiiU
Because Zelda is finally coming. Check out the trailer below, in glorious 720P.
Dwarf Fortress
I’ve heard about Dwarf Fortress before, but I’ve never played it. Maybe I should, given this great article from the Seattle Weekly on the video game Dwarf Fortress. Oft considered the most complex video game ever created, Dwarf Fortress is less of an RPG and more of a world simulator. Here’s a great excerpt from the article (but go read it):
“If we just start with What’s in a dwarf’s head?, there’s 50-something personality facets we pulled from a psychology textbook, 30 intellectual values, a bunch of specific needs they have, like, if they like extravagant clothing,” Tarn says, “And then, based on all of that, there’s 120 different emotions.” It’s a remarkable amount of depth for a dwarf, a creature that, in the game, is represented by nothing more than a little smiley face.
This Dude is Playing Every RPG Ever
And blogging about it. Check it out at CRPGAddict.blogspot.com. He’s basing this off wikipedia’s list of RPGs, his Google spreadsheet can be found here. Also, he seems committed, looks like he’s currently around 1990, tackling things like Dungeon of Nadrod and Magic Candle (huh?). This is truly a life’s work if ever there was such a thing.
Hulu, why have you forsaken J?
Hulu is apparently dumping their anime back catalog so they can start airing live versions of The Bachelor Hoarders of Long Island. Or some dumb shit like that.
J, time to spin up your crunchyroll sub.
Kickstarter Drama
Interesting story on Gizmodo about a 3D printer Kickstarter campaign gone awry. This follows a long, infamous list of failed Kickstarters. In fact, the list is so plentiful now, that it has begot its own subreddit: shittykickstarters.
That said, I just received my Freewrite the other day, and while some people are panning it as a 500 dollar hipster keyboard, hipsters are waxing effusively over the product’s anachronistic simplicity. I think it falls somewhere in between those poles, and hope to write a review soon. Whatever your opinion, while the Freewrite was delayed, it did come to life as a fairly accurate representation of its initial vision, so I’d say that’s a definite success.