entertainment

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Davidebyzero/Snipes

A multiplayer, text, third-person shooter originally made for DOS, but I know it from Novell Netware.

I had a hell of a lot of fun with it. Perhaps it’s nostalgia which makes me stay so fond of it, but I think the fundamental gameplay still holds up today. I could easily imagine a great updated version of this but I have and still do see this same gameplay in all sorts of other top-down games.

DOS
Linux port (archive)
iOS port

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Mythic – (2015 short film)

2016-11-21

alternate present, disliked, entertainment, fantasy fiction entertainment, fantasy fiction movies, fiction, glances, magic, movies, short movies, unrated

Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4270610/
https://mythicfilm.weebly.com/

It is discovered that a person and their voice can be paired with certain words to manifest effects in the real world.

Tiring. Slow, confusing, and after 12 minutes it gets into a bit of a plot. The world has not been particularly well-explained.. giving this too little substance to hold my attention.

17 minutes

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The Year’s Best Science Fiction, ed. by Gardner Dozois

2016-11-19

books, dead, dead-tree books, disliked, entertainment, fiction, Gardner Dozois, glances, hardcover books, intelligence, liked, owned, science fiction entertainment, things, todo

Entertainment > Reading >

(on Wikipedia)

Collections of science fiction short stories, curated by.. people I don’t know and who have no authority in my mind. They came into being pre-internet and still cling to relevancy.

I was excited to find these, but their stories are hit-and-miss.

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The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury – (1887-1908 stories), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2016-11-18

Arthur Conan Doyle, books, crime books, crime entertainment, dead-tree books, entertainment, fiction, glances, hardcover books, live, mystery books, mystery entertainment, owned, Sherlock Holmes, things, todo, writing

This may take me quite some time to read through.

Not the cover of my edition

Entertainment > Reading >

A classic work combining classic works.

I bought this because it’s considered one of the great works of literature and has survived into common culture. Though I can see why this would have been popular at the time, especially thanks to the forward saying that the brief writing style was rare, I don’t yet see why this would appeal to today’s person. Perhaps it’s just me, but so far I find the writing style rather insulting.

Unabridged:

1887 – A Study in Scarlet
1890 – The Sign of the Four
1892 – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1893 – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1902 – The Hound of the Baskervilles
1904 – The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1908 – The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
1908 – The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Properly titled The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury – Revised & Expanded
ISBN 0-517-43614-0
ISBN 0-517-43614-2 (lib. ed.)
- Library edition?

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The Fountainhead – (1943 book), by Ayn Rand

2016-09-29

Ayn Rand, books, dead, dead-tree books, disliked, entertainment, fiction, glances, owned, philosophy, softcover books, things

the-fountainhead-1943-book-by-ayn-rand-cover

Entertainment > Reading >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0452273331

A famous work of philosophy, especially because it’s told using a story.

A terrible work of storytelling that entirely shrouds any philosophy it may have. From the first sentence I rolled my eyes and couldn’t make it through the first half-page before setting it down in disgust. I still haven’t been more than a handful of pages in.. it’s just so god damned bad.

This’ll sit on my shelf, among its betters, probably for years before I get around to trying to read more of it. Just as books in ancient Greek need translating, I think this needs a real writer to re-tell the story.

ISBN 9-780452-273337

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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)

I’m not sure how to describe this game. It’s an oldschool oldschool point-and-click game.

I think I would have liked this back in the day, but these days I find a bunch of the mechanics and gameplay too frustrating to deal with.

Properly titled Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
https://www.gog.com/game/leisure_suit_larry
archive.org free online version (1987)

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Overwatch – (2016 game)

2016-05-10

abandoned, Blizzard games, dead, disliked, entertainment, first-person shooters, games, glances, liked, multiplayer games, online software, payware, proprietary software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/

Shoot stuff and things.

I played the open beta. I found it fun, but not worth money. When I was given it for free a while later, I didn’t find it all that great.

Has graphics reminiscent of Sanctum 2 – (2013 game).
Overwatch 2 – While it has PvE to some degree, the full talent trees and upgrades concept will not be implemented. (source)

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Proteus

2016-04-25

dead, disliked, entertainment, games, glances, GUI software, payware, proprietary software, software, Windows 10 software, Windows games, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190810154034/http://twistedtreegames.com:80/proteus/

Open-world exploration.

It’s like an even crappier-graphics Minecraft, only with nothing to do. At first I thought it was quirky and interesting, but for some reason I got lifted in the air and after a long, long, while the game ended. I redid things, and this happened the second time too.

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