January 2012
18 posts
Watchgff:
:: In the studio. Taped in December, just 11 days before J-1’s untimely passing ::
D-F w/ Master Blazter (J-1 & Computer Jay) filmed at Different Fur Studios / SF.
- G.F.F.
Fat.
Printed circuit love and brain workout →
from h. Play
The disneyfication of tech can suck my balls →
from h. Play
“Funny how the British treat any EU matter like it’s a franco-german nazi...”
– BB
Overrated
Like a shitload of creative work. Three usually praised games that always make me want to say “Come on, son”. - Another World Killing slugs with my feet and learning by heart how the fuck they fall from the ceiling. So immersive. I met Eric Chahi and love the man but no, I don’t like this game. Controls are awful, there’s no flow, you just die over and over. The at that time insanely...
Dear Claude
Hey, I couldn’t write about it last year, when you passed away. I guess I think about you everyday but I don’t even try to count, you are just around in my head, somehow. I wanted to tell you thank you, my first dad. My first male figure. And I can’t really think about a better one. You came to Paris to get me. I was assigned to your foster home. A nice, calm baby....
Black music
What the fuck is happening. How come Mint Condition is so low on the radar, a 20 year old classic R&B band like them? Only two albums in ten years for a big talent like Jaguar Wright? Maxwell made a come back last year but was missing for an entire decade. Last album for the Jazzyfatnastees, beautiful and warm voices, 2002. And Sa-Ra! They were supposed to be the digital blender of black...
December 2011
37 posts
End of the year stuff
Paris. Rain. F U. It’s been a tough and rough year, that’s for sure. Death and pain, pain and death. Surviving between all that and trying to push things forward. Not easy but well, we’re all going to die next year, aren’t we? Plan for next year: commit to my prototype, expand Chocobeam and stick to the lean, I’m going to need it. /stretches out Happy New Year 2012, y’all.
December stuff
December is the month where I usually backup things. I realized that I’ve never lost anything in ten years of heavy computer use. Maybe a couple of hundreds of meg, I’m not even sure. I have things burned on CDs at least five times. I have pretty much my entire email history since the beginning. Same with IM logs (I was saving them because of links in conversations). Every single soundtrack I...
Brands
They are needed but they alienate people. They work as long as they are not used as “I’m buying this brand because I want this brand”. But we measure the success through this unit, “as much of a religion a brand can be”. If you are venerate as much as a 2,000 year old sect, you are a winner. I always thought brands would kind of disappear, actually. Good, generic products were supposed to take...
Web apps, Google and feeds
Or how an ongoing change of consuming the web forces Google to speed up their will to expand So yeah, Google Reader sucks. They changed things and killed the sharing feature and they want to feed us with G+ until we can’t go back. Fuck that. I’m trying other ways to read news without big G on my ass. I have a much better understanding of why RSS readers are using Google services to synchronize...
How a translation changed changed my life
A 70s book for kids. Kind of philosophical and stuff. When I was about 6 and freshly adopted, my mom used to read the book “El hombre que lo tenía todo todo todo” to me before sleep. Interestingly, the translation in French wasn’t the correct “The man whom had it all, all, all” but “The man who knew everything, everything, everything”. This book is pretty complex for a kids book but I didn’t...
Dave
So Louis CK did it and I can’t stop thinking about the fact that: - Artists are way too often freaking retards with technology and can’t never see how it would benefit them; I torrented every single Louis’ standup, the two seasons of Louie and that’s how I became a fan and paid right away for his thing. Otherwise, I would have just “stolen” his last show or maybe would not have given a single...
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Fuck it vibe floating in the air
Isn’t everything weird these days? People protest about the 1% making so much money but cyber Monday generated $1.2 billion, up 22% from last year. I didn’t buy anything. I thought we didn’t have any money? Modern Warfare 3 made� over $1 billion in 16 days. Sixteen days, one game. Explain that to me guys. Not just the financial aspect but how a war game can be so widely welcomed, over and over....
Good luck with that
France Generation-sandwich. So people born from 1900 to around 1970 in red: basically, it’s no to Europe. Still scared from “Ze Germans” and still think De Gaulle as the Main Man. They don’t speak or read anything but French. They know though, that Europe needs to happen. Once they’ll pass away, because for now those old ass bitches rather go back to the Franc. The slim orange Yes to...
“The other great thing about using a Tube instead of a Stick, besides the...”
– The magic of sound design. Also, Sticks are disappointing.
har0ld’s groove
har0ld’s groove by har0ld har0ld’s groove by Harold I guess I’ll have to decide which service to use in the future but it’s a tough one.
Racialicious
Disclaimer: high thinking ahead. I was following a Twitter conversation about race, black people and all that. People disagree, some think that race doesn’t exist and some are saying that fuck yeah it does and both are right. African-Americans and the history of US slavery created a situation where they cannot not see race. But it brings up a lot of problems. So there’s race from a scientific...
Difficulty tuning
Comment I could have written, almost: Anyone working in the AAA industry on any level who thinks Demon Souls / Dark Souls are examples to be followed or praised should have their head examined. Honestly, wake the f**k up. If you’d like to set the progress core gaming has made as a form of primary mainstream entertainment back 20 years, make more abominations like Demon Souls and Dark...