~ Thirty-one days earlier ~ Today is not a normal day. My longtime partner of almost ten years and I have just broken up. We are living together, in business together, with dog together, and everything is intertwined - family and friends and schedules and work and finances. It was my first real relationship, and I'd assumed there'd never have to be a second. Yet here I am, suddenly feeling adri...
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(I'd originally posted this as a reply to a forum topic, but thought there was enough there to constitute its own blog-thing) Last week I was replied to by the wikileaks account on twitter after I questioned them jumping on the 'gate hashtag. As a result, my timeline was unreadable for a good couple of days - not even with abuse (though there was some in there) but just so much goddamned NOISE....
I know this is about seven years too late, but I was thinking about tension in narrative games, and how easy it is to ruin a good buildup with something as trivial as bad checkpointing or enemy placement. It got me thinking about the last time this was really made clear to me. It got me thinking about Halo: Reach. I had a memorable (not in the good way) experience at the end of Halo: Reach that...
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