Game Writer Guy, Author at game writer central

A User Experience Design Case Study

Today’s user experience design case study, kids, is this painful screen from leading Windows utility Hard Disk Sentinel version 6.30. This is how NOT to design an interface in your app or application when you could’ve made your tool easy and intuitive, people. Danger danger. Now we all love looking at SMART data need to […]

How to Trim Cat Nails

Want to trim cat nails like a pro? Is your cat clawing your furniture into shreds and drawing blood daily? Every good cat owner must know how to trim cat claws. Not doing so is bad for your health and theirs. In the wild, felines can do their own nail trimming by clawing objects like […]

Luc Besson’s “Lucy”: Laughably Awful

Today we’ve got a three-sentence micro review of Luc Besson’s Scarlett Johansson starrer “Lucy.” Besson is known as the director of blockbusters like “Nikita,” “Taken,” and “The Fifth Element.” Just awful. The setup is not bad, and then it just turns into a double-whammy of the worst pseudoscience and the most gawdawful CGI, creating an […]

MLB Realignment: Manfred Strikes Again

So… Rob Manfred wants to expand the baseball universe, add some new teams for Charlotte and Portland, and… switch a bunch of teams between divisions? Here’s a possible, heavily geographically-weighted configuration from Fox Sports: Mets, Phillies, Nationals, Pirates, Guardians, Brewers, Braves, Marlins to the AL. White Sox, Astros, Rockies, Royals, Angels to the NL. The […]

Strange Days

We saw Strange Days for the first time last week at the historic Paramount. Interesting flick, especially with the introductory context provided by our curator: this was the director Kathryn Bigelow’s “statement” project (her reward for the commercial success of the Keanu Reeves vehicle “Point Break”) which she filmed from a script co-written by James […]

The Hit Man Movie Review Ecology Is Broken

Seen the Hit Man movie reviews lately? This 2023 Richard Linklater movie, credited with launching Glen Powell’s career, somehow got a giant “Get Out of Jail Free” pass for some mysterious reason, and no one seems to be paying attention. This amusing but flawed and ethically challenged movie is rated 95% on Rotten Tomatoes (89% […]

Moana 2, The Substance, and Pearl Compared, in Brief

Your game writer has a few holiday movie viewings to dissect: THE SUBSTANCE, PEARL, and MOANA 2. Of these, Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE is the most buzzy and the least worth your time. This by-the-numbers overlong feature rails against Hollywood’s beauty and youth vampirism, but offers nothing as an alternative, and despite Demi Moore’s best […]

Betting Odds: U.S. President?

2024 Presidential Race and Citizen Action Items We’re betting you weren’t expecting this odd and odious outcome for U.S. president a year ago. It’s 2024 now, and boy does it feel like a snippet out of Orwell. In 2023, Trump was besieged by debts and losing court cases. Some of the malfeasance just boggles the […]

The Best Cheap Cat Food

Your Cheap Cat Food Options Right Here, Bruvs and Sistahs Cheap cat food, and healthy cat food – aka harga makanan kucing if you speak Malay, shoutout to my cousins in Singapore and KK – is a tricky game to balance (see how we wove in games into the picture?? And gamers do love cats). […]

The Yankees Baseball…

The Yankees’ “Goldilocks Baseball” and Why Baseball Needs a New Ball So the Yankees baseball or “Goldilocks baseball” made headlines in 2022, but it’s still a burning issue that’s also a golden opportunity for MLB to prove it cares about the future of Yankees baseball, major-league pitching talent, baseball in every state, and the kids […]