posted by: Oreo
First things first.
I don't exactly get much traffic here yet, so this will mostly fall of deaf ears, or be redundant. But I would be remiss as a game developer if I didn't mention the clusterfuck that is SOPA and PIPA. If you don't want the internet to be under the control of the American media industry, then I suggest you inform yourself, and speak up about it. Here is some reading for you.
Google's comments
Reddit's technical overview of the bills
Wikipedia's comments
Outside of that, I...
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posted by: Oreo
An interesting article came into my twitter feed today. Basically, the author believes that Google+'s influence on Google search results is breaking(or, to quote, "messing up") the internet. Where there are many points that could be addressed in he's arguments, but right now I'm only going to touch on one thing regarding this topic...
Google+, at it's worst, can only "mess up" Google. Google does not equal the internet. It's an TOOL used on the internet, one of many. It happens to be one o...
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posted by: Oreo
Happy New Year, everybody! Well, almost. Just over 9 hours to go. I'm on the train coming home from visiting the family, sitting across from two guys I've never met before and wondering if I should troll them or not. While I decide, I figured it would be a good time for a post.
As a general rule in the past, I haven't made new year resolutions. No one expects resolutions to be followed through anymore, which has lead to people using the new year as an excuse to say they are going to do thi...
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posted by: Oreo
This is a long post, so you can scroll down to the [TL;DR] to skip the lead up.
I've been wanting to get off Facebook for a while now. I'm not against social media, and I don't think Facebook has gotten too popular to still be cool. I just don't like how the site has progressed. When describing it to others, I often parallel it with Yahoo. When Yahoo first came out, it was king of the search engines. As they became more and more popular, they started trying to grow the company, which is fi...
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posted by: Oreo
Blogging is a tricky thing to do, at least for me. I often have a hard time coming up with topics to talk about, and when I do think of something, writing them down seems to be an even greater challenge. And it's not just due to the mental block to writing that I developed as a young child (who decided to make b's and d's look so damn similar??), but rather due to the challenge of expressing myself in a way that is not only enjoyable to read, but is also hopefully useful to those reading it. ...
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