sgtsphynx
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All reviewsGone Home2013
5 out of 5 starsOne of my favorite things to do in games is explore, and since that is the focal point, or potentially the entire point, of Gone Home, I quite enjoyed it. As someone who was a teenager during the time Gone Home takes place, a lot of this game resonated with me. Many of the bands Sam had posters for, I listened to; I watched most of the shows and had VHS copies of those movies, complete with badly hand written…
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All articlesRecently read a short story by Frederik Pohl called The Midas Plague and I need to get this out of my head.
May 10, 2019
Here's a quick synopsis of the story: Humanity has solved the cheap energy problem and made hyper efficient robots that produce everything in quantities greater than what the human population can consume. The society is structured in a class system where the poor have to consume vast quantities of the goods to fulfill their ration quotas and the rich can live simple lives. The main character is...
4 years, 7 months, and 23 days ago, I was fired from Walmart. In 12 days, I graduate as a Mechanical Engineer.
Apr 15, 2018
I was a little depressed those first couple months after getting fired, but in the end, it was a good thing. That event gave me the push I needed to do something more with my life. I'd already served ten years in the US Marine Corps and felt I had already made my impact on the world. Now I feel like that is still ahead of me, I've already got a job with an organization that focuses on environme...
Something "dumb" that arose from a question about the Death Star.
Dec 5, 2015
Someone on another site asked why it took the Empire 18 years to build the Death Star in A New Hope. They seemed to think that was longer than it should take instead of insanely fast (as is my stance.) Fermi Problem time! Assumptions I am making and why: The Death Star is a solid sphere. I am doing this to simplify the calculations since I do not know the ratio of empty space to total volume of...
The problem with MOBA
Aug 25, 2015
Please bear in mind that this is entirely my opinion and I am in no way an authority on this subject. Also, I am almost certain that I am not the first person to hold this opinion or come to this conclusion. One final aside, I am mainly concentrating on the way it seems that most people only refer to the DotA-likes when using the term MOBA . Anyway, I went to answer @Mike 's poll about MOBAs an...
What a weird freshman year in college.
Feb 14, 2015
I am currently in my second semester of my freshman year. I would have been working on my "junior" year if I had actually finished my AA back in 2005, but I didn't and so had to start essentially from scratch. Anyway, last semester I had to mostly take Gen Ed courses since I got accepted late. Because I was taking those classes, which were super fucking easy, I managed to get a 3.85 GPA last se...
Critical Analysis of City of Lost Children
Jan 6, 2015
I wrote this paper for a class last semester. I don't really know where else to put this and a friend asked to see my paper, so I am putting it here. City of Lost Children: A Critical Analysis In today’s cynical world of consumerism, childhood is an unrealistic nostalgia target. Children grow up too quickly and adults pine for the freedom from responsibility of youth. Innocence has given way to...
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