Archive for the 'Dave's Perch' Category

The Problem With America

Friday, July 31st, 2009

I have discovered the problem, and present it to you for your edification:
Three overweight ladies and their fat little kids are standing in line at McDonald’s. One mother turns to her friends and says, “See, that’s the problem with America these days. They don’t have playgrounds at McDonald’s anymore, all they have are these video [...]

Life’s little quirks

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

By a strange turn of events, I have a new workout partner. Meet Kara Jackson, Miss Idaho 2009.

This is what happens when you are unemployed and your trainer decides to have you come in at a time that is more convenient for him.
Coincidentally, I have a job interview on Friday for a job I applied [...]

Boundaries of ‘Game’

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

I discovered 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness. And promptly began pondering the limitations and boundaries of games, much as I imagine the creator was doing. Specifically, what makes a game? How far can you push a game before it stops being a game?
In this particular game, what is perhaps the most extreme experiment [...]

Illicit Euphoria

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I have, for some reason I haven’t fully explored, always been attracted to violence in videogames as directed towards small non-common-household animals. Fable indulged me in this propensity to a certain extent with its wholly extraneous and immensely entertaining diversion of kicking chickens, including first the longest kick metric and later an entire competition built [...]

Do we have a mandate?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Of course we don’t. That’s why I get to talk about whatever I want, and you have no choice but to suffer, or convince The Almighty Boddhisattva to kick me off. Take it, and like it!
Conversely, other participants could post a deluge of contributions in an attempt to drown me out. Ideal? Yes. Realistic? Well…
So [...]