Square login public service announcement: it’s broken Do you login to Square (squareup.com) regularly to do business? Maybe sell items or swipe a credit card using your phone? Well, their login has been broken for awhile and here’s how. First off, Square lets you choose to login either with your email or your phone number. […]
Category Archives: game writer
The Avatar 2 Plot: Recap and… Why’s It Broken?
Avatar 2’s plot is perhaps the least remarkable of this remarkable award-winning movie’s marvels. What happened in the movie? Here’s a complete refresher. And what made the Avatar 2 plot so porous, from a professional game writer’s point of view? The Avatar 2 Plot in bullet points: Wow, there are some whoppers in that Avatar […]
Disco Elysium Is The Game Writing Pinnacle
Quick note: I’m nominating Disco Elysium as the pinnacle of game writing (TM). If you haven’t played this tremendously heartfelt and involving game, get on it immediately. This game looks superficially like one of those classic “hunt-and-click” adventure games from Lucasarts, but plays like its own tormented, hilarious, luminous revolutionary. And I mean that in […]
Can’t Find Drafts Folder in the Gmail Android App? And How This Bodes Ill for the AI Future
Is there no Drafts folder in your Gmail app on Android? Yeah… me neither. Google continues to “do no harm” by slopping shovelware out there for us goofs to consume. The latest mind-numbing basic feature that is confounding me is this ridiculous situation with drafts. If you’re on Android (obscure OS) on a mobile phone […]
Moink Meat and Ethical Meat… on a Budget
Moink whattt? Moink meat is a new delivery service (Moink box) that ships you ethically-sourced beef, pork, salmon, lamb, and chicken. Moink – a farmer-run venture that supports small, family farms – is part of a growing groundswell of consumers who are aware of the grievous, heart-rending ethical failings of the American agribusinesses and is […]
How to Use Vimeo’s Slideshow Maker
Wanna know how to use Vimeo’s slideshow maker? Interested in a review of this new free feature? Surprise! You won’t find it here. Well, only a truncated one. Why? Because we don’t recommend it. We tried to use it for a project recently and invested a fair amount of effort, only to discover that it […]
“The Last of Us” Plot
The Last of Us plot and writing work are a revelation and a clear sign once again that videogame writing can hold up to massive scrutiny. I mean, we in the videogame industry have always held it in high esteem because it’s a monumental work that IGN called “a masterpiece.” Edge dubbed it “the most […]
Is Green Rogue the Worst Game Ever?
Back in 2001, we at 3DO Redwood City released our baby, Army Men: Green Rogue, a game that attempted to recast the hoary Army Men franchise into a darker yet more retro mold. Were we successful? Apparently not. I just found out that two Youtubers with a series called “Worst Games Ever” profiled AMGR. As […]
Videogame Names… AKA Who’s Playing First?
Console and videogame names are funny eccentricities of the games industry. Our guest hosts Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, here to help us commemorate the 50th anniversary of the original videogame company, have a few words on the topic of videogame console names! Bud Abbott: Well, Lou, glad you can make it to Atari 50, […]
The Gmail Spam Filter Is Destroying Human Communication
You know that handy Gmail spam filter that is keeping most of the spam out of your inbox? It’s also totally broken and destroying the connections you’ve spent your entire life building. Is it possible to put a price tag Gmail’s spam filter has always been aggressive. Why? People get tend to get a lot […]