Everyone has their own definition of what constitutes a “game” and, as one would suspect, philosophers have put forth their own theories as to what is and is not a game. I have long felt that there is a certain aspect of gaming that is often misidentified and included in many activities that are called …
Author Archives: Scott Alan Miller
July 9, 2007: Turd Painting
Around eight o’clock this evening Dominica’s mother called to tell us that Dominica’s cousin, Andrew – 38 years old and a father of two – had passed away after a short battle with cancer. Scott Adams has a good post today about Honda spokesperson completely messing up what would be a very straightforward defense. I …
Video Games as Literature
At the turn of the century (that is, in 1899 – the LAST century) I think that few people would have guessed that photography would become a significant form of art or that recorded music would mostly displace performance music as the core of the musical arts nor would many believe that future forms of …
July 8, 2007: Wrapping Up a Video Game Weekend.
Dominica and my weekend of total relaxation continues today. We slept in a little this morning and then I decided to start playing Suikoden III on the PS2 which I just got a week or so ago. I originally played Suikoden on the Playstation back in the late 1990s and it was very good – …
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The End of Powered Telephones
I have long argued that the legacy telephone network was on its last leg. It no longer serves any real purpose. It is expensive both for end users and for the telephone companies. The quality of phone calls, in my personal experience, has been inconsistent and only on par with VoIP. I have heard many …