Part of the game’s weird charm are the clunky-looking graphics. But the game isn’t intended to dazzle you, but to provide a powerful learning environment. Царевич has developed a crazy affinity for the game Minecraft. If you don’t know what … Continue reading →
…or at least while New Orleans sinks. I have the TOZT-7 and I’m coming to get you Mandy! Governor Jindal could not be reached for comment. He’s still on hold with the White House… Dr. J.
Continue reading →Hats off to FotG Jonathan Last for picking up on this post. GorT had an Atari 800 growing up and M.U.L.E. was one of his favorites. I’ve since loaded it via Atari emulators onto my Windows machines. It was a … Continue reading →
Eerily tranquil to watch. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Gentle readers, two news items have come up which have made it clear to Dr. J. that an eccumenical rift has come to exist between the prototypic Gen-X nerd (Ret.) and the Millennial offshoot. The first item comes to us … Continue reading →
Answering the mail call, that is. The Czar has four unread messages. First up is Operative FJR, who etched this onto a small grain of rice and slipped it into the Czar’s Burmese Beef: I do a lot of outdoor … Continue reading →
The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of … Continue reading →
Clever reader JA writes in to say: Re: the Marathon screen cap in a recent post. BEST. GAME. EVER. Yeah, don’t we know it. See kiddies, in the days before Halo, there was Marathon. Indeed, attentive players of the Halo … Continue reading →
On the way into work today one of the local news stations had a brief spot that highlighted the generational differences between those entering college this year and their professors. It was intended to show that some culutral references will … Continue reading →
Somewhere in the UK, a short-haired, tee-shirt wearing prat with store-bought 5.11 pants fires up Halo: Reach on his Xbox and logs into Xbox Live. His call sign is UniformKiloActual, and he returns the salute to his game avatar. He … Continue reading →
GD, master of all he surveys (which includes a good portion of the front yard) sends this via Aldis lamp: Oh wise and ever-merciful Czar, please do not visit a plague upon my house for writing. Your liberal video game … Continue reading →
Volgi, The Czar is not terribly surprised by your mentioning that most popular video games have a conservative theme underlying it. The Czar would indeed nominate the entire Halo franchise under this aegis. (The Czar knows that some liberal goofs … Continue reading →
…show how reality works. You make the call. In fact, all of the video games I play tend to have a decidedly anti-liberal tilt. From the seemingly innocuous Sims to more obviously hawkish games like Call of Duty, many video … Continue reading →
The Czar suspects that this story is getting some ground because it is a conservative vs. liberal issue. Let us hope not. Dr. Carole Lieberman, a self-proclaimed “media psychiatrist” (uh oh) declared to Fox News that recent increases in rapes … Continue reading →
The Czar has spent a good portion of a snowy Christmas weekend watching the family play with a Kinect for XBox 360. Does it live up to the hype? Perhaps. It certainly is a different way to play a game. … Continue reading →
CNN found five video games a little too weird for their taste. Well, then, fools, click here. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of … Continue reading →
…over at WSJ.com. Great piece on the history, nature, and appeal of wargaming, tabletop and computerized. Go read. Go. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →See Gamma Squad for an explanation. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →But funny. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →As I was completely entertained by the Volgi’s documentary of my recent trip back to the mid 1940s, I thought I’d provide a few other items on the iPad. First, the good: this is an interesting take on the iPad … Continue reading →
This is a bit of a diversion from the recent topics, but while I was doing a little lunchtime reading, I came across this article in Wired! Out of the 14 items mentioned, we owned about half of them and … Continue reading →
