February 2012
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“There are people who say that preventing saves adds to the “tension”...”
– Damn straight.
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“We’ve got a murderous, smart creature capable of the most despicably...”
– Matthew Inman, a.k.a. The Oatmeal, explaining the pure unbridled fucking awesomeness - and pure insanity-inducing scaryness - of the mighty octopus.
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2012 is a great year for adventure game fans
Well, 2012 is certainly shaping up to be a great time for adventure games. I have already gushed excessively about the Space Quest releases that happened at the very start of 2012.
Now Double Fine is making a fan-funded adventure game. If you have no idea who Double Fine is, maybe I just need to mention the two head honchos behind this idea: Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert. Still not in on it? How...
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“The record industry has been insulting the music-buying public’s...”
– From “BandCamp for Drummers” - a quick guide on how to use the BandCamp services on their website
Seriously, these people rock. Not only is their service free, easily embeddable everywhere and there’s no clutter or ads. In addition to that they’re, if you’ll excuse my...
January 2012
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So, this is 2012, huh? Week One report:
So, to recap, this is what’s happened in 2012 this first week:
SOPA is, for some reason, still being taken seriously by some people; mostly people who have never seen or used the Internet. The rest of us are starting to twitch uncomfortably every time a Spanish-speaking person mentions soup.
Not content with wanting to destroy the Internet, the greatest invention in communication since the...
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Red Dwarf back on tv - and not just for a sissy...
Oh, in case you missed it: my favorite tv-show of all time is back on the air in 2012!
Here’s hoping it won’t suck as bad as the last two seasons of the old show (seasons 7 and 8). I didn’t see Back To Earth yet, but from what I read in the synopsis, it seemed startlingly self-aggrandizing and weak, if only from a story point of view.
In my opinion, Doug Naylor really ran the...
December 2011
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It's a great time to be a Space Quest fan
It’s not all holiday snark from me. Yes, yesterday’s post was borne out of an alcoholic rage, but at this point you should know better what to expect from me. So here’s some real holiday cheer for you:
One of the perks of being the jerk who wrote the Space Quest FAQ is that you get to butt in on a lot of cool stuff. In this case, I had the very good fortune to play a beta of a...
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I'm sane, by the way
You know what? I have two or three really good posts in me, but I’m scared to write ‘em up. Because at this point, I am half expecting a Tumblrbeast to come out of the woodworks and rectally assault me for trying to inject a little content into this cess-pool of so-called creativity we call social media.
Fuck this shit. I am not sitting around, wasting valuable drops of human...
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Tumblr ate my post
I don’t know what happened. But this happened:
That made me go like this:
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The four best racing games I can think of
I think racing games are crap. Every Need for Speed game I’ve ever played has been awful, games like Formula 1 and Gran Turismo bore me stiff, and the only thing crazy about Crazy Taxi was that they somehow had found the gall to demand money for it.
It’s gotten to the point where it’s ruined my enjoyment of okay racers, like Trackmania and Burnout. I just don’t get the big...
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I love my wife
Me: What time will you be home tomorrow? Do I have time to clean out the cocaine and the dismembered corpses of prostitutes from the bathroom, or do I have to do it tonight?
My wife: I'll be home around six thirty, so you'll have plenty of time.
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“Donald say he wants to run for President and move on into the White House. Why...”
– Snoop Dogg at the roast of Donald Trump
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An open letter to the collective recording...
Dear record companies,
Here’s why we’ve put up with your shit for so long.
We like music. I know that sounds corny and hackney, but really, why would we put so much energy into subjecting you to this much misery if we didn’t have a vested interest in it? We are not your average buying public. We don’t view music as a simple alternative to silence.
The reason why we put...
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Favorite Android apps I wish my HTC phone came...
tl;dr These are my favorite smartphone apps. Yes, I know that’s an awful lot to write about something as mundane as what apps I have on my phone. Congratulations. Now you know how it feels to live inside my head.
Long story: I’ve owned a smartphone now for the good part of six months, and even though I bitch about it to no end, I also begrudgingly have to admit that it has features...
November 2011
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Now that I finally know what it's for, I cleaned...
I rearranged my Circles to actually make sense. (My original circles were very much the product of still trying to wrap my head around the difference between G+ “Circles” and Facebook “Lists”.)
Here’s the difference, at least as far as I am concerned, if anyone’s wondering: If you, like me, don’t micro-manage where each of your posts are going, ...
Anonymous asked: So incredibly wrong about The Girl with the dragon tattoo; way more than a simple revenge story. And that "goth girl" isn't even the main focus of the novel. Why don't you end your ignorance and actually read the book? I'm sure you'll find that your incredibly shallow summation of the story will quickly be dispelled, for the novel delves into matters such as history,...
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Top Five of American Institutions that Americans...
I have an embarrassing confession to make: I watch a lot of Amerícan trash tv. This is not a post about American trash tv, nor is it an indictment of American culture in general, either. This is just a whimsical musing on a few phenomena I think everyone can relate to on some level — presented in a format inspired by my favorite style of article writing: the +Cracked.com school of...
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“When Liberals run country for 30 years following New Deal, American economy...”
– Cookie Monster explains what #OWS is all about - succinctly, level-headedly and surprisingly intelligently
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Long-lost plot explanation to Grim Fandango -...
In 1998, LucasArts released the epic Grim Fandango, widely regarded among old farts like me to be the last of the great adventure game genre. (We’ll ignore the twitch-inducing keyboard-interface for nostalgia’s sake.) Now, in 2011, the plot to the game is finally revealed when benevolent hackers traipse around the insides of the game files and discover a host of unused dialogue...
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From one lovely G+ paradise to another
Okay, this is awkward. tl;dr Anyone know how to migrate one Google+ account to another?
Long explanation: I’ve been using Google+ with a Gmail-account that’s not my primary e-mail, because my primary e-mail was some sort of elaborate voodoo horseshit my Dad has cooked up that tangentially involves using Gmail, but absolutely flat out refused to work with G+. Today, however, I ...
October 2011
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“They are the 1 percent. They are the banks, the mortgage industry, the insurance...”
– Introduction to WeAreThe99Percent.tumblr.com
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“We’ll leave you this kids: somewhere out there, as we write this, Omar...”
– Travis Keller, Buddyhead
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The new dilemma: Where to get yer groove on?
So, I’ve been using Spotify for almost a week now. And as you may have gathered from previous outbursts from yours truly, I’m not exactly falling flat on my ass in awe.
In fact, push comes to shove and gun to head, I prefer Grooveshark.
Now, Grooveshark technically isn’t legal. At the very least, the legality of using Grooveshark is very muddled. Grooveshark does, however,...
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Why we distrust police (and other uniformed...
This E.M.S. guy on this 911-show I’m watching was just saying how a patient he responded to was “involved in seizure activity.” Hot damn, where do I sign up for that? I really hate when the police or other people in uniform get in front of the camera to be interviewed and try to sound as officious and articulate as possible, using as many multisyllabic padding words as can...
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Spotify: first impressions
Today, the music service Spotify was launched in my country. The reason why it’s been so long should be obvious to, well, anyone who has ever heard of digital music and copyright. If not, then allow me a quick summary: Because record companies are greedy assholes. There. Anyway, here’s my first impressions, in the order they popped into my head: 1. “Really? I have to download...
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How Siri won't mean a damn thing about how I use...
Since nobody asked, here is what I think of this Siri-business: it’s meaningless. I have never understood our fascination with computer voice commands. I think it’s all that Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey we were brought up with that somehow convinced us a talking computer would be kind of neat. But it’s not. Really, it isn’t. The only reason HAL and Majel Barrett...
September 2011
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Something that "matters"
Quote from an article describing Billy Corgan’s new bat-shit venture into professional wrestling:
“I stood in line the day before my dad’s birthday in 1995, and I walked up to the counter in HMV just outside of Toronto and I bought ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness.’ I did it because when I heard The Smashing Pumpkins on the radio, it felt like something that mattered....
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"Hipster bullshit" - a non-exhaustive, completely...
Today I told my friend +Jon Nielsen that the new Gary Numan album would be something worth checking out. He said he would, provided it wasn’t “hipster bullshit.” Which got me thinking that we need some sort of non-exhaustive reference list as to what “hipster bullshit” is, so potential disagreements in the future can at least be narrowly avoided. So here is my...
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Well, the audio portion from my little...
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Why I guess I shouldn't record audio commentaries...
Okay, I let this thing sit all night, hoping in vain that something good would come of it. Of course, it didn’t. A recap for those of you who are just tuning in: Yesterday, I tried to record myself playing my game A Life Worth Losing (www.alifeworthlosing.com) whilst providing “insightful” (read: slightly tipsy) commentary. Why? Because I noticed “a life worth losing...
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Thought Diaspora was dead? Think again.
Okay, something interesting has happened. Diaspora, the social network that really came first with the whole “Circles” thing but got buried in the Katamari-like steamrolling of G+, has tried to one-up its closest competitor. Diaspora wants to become your one-stop shop for crossposting across a variety of network. Not only that, but they want to aggregate all your networks into a...
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Social media turns on its head, and it's only...
Well, things in the social media world just turned upside down today. Well, not really, but I love hyperbole. 1) Facebook unveils new layout; world cries. So, I guess the big improvement we were promised a few days ago involved taking more power away from us end-users and replacing the few functions that worked with gimmicky crap that doesn’t? That new “look what your friends are...
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My brief foray into the world of sampling. I got...
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An open letter to HTC, the makers of my phone, the...
Dear HTC, Your Android WildFire S phone sucks. I own one, and I regret ever leaving the comforts of my stone-age Nokia 6070 behind. Here’s three reasons why you should all burn in Hell for unleashing this pestilence upon the world: 1) 150 megabytes of internal space? Really? Are you fucking kidding me? Don’t get me wrong; I remember when my Dad bought our first hard drive with 20...
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Google+ and Facebook: The war is on, and I'm...
All right, more fuel for my fire.
Google+ to companies, bands et.al.: “Go fuck yourselves”
Like Nine Inch Nails, I tried setting up G+ accounts for my musically inclined self (Alchemy) and my silly Danish record label (Spændstig Musik ltd). Both those account are now suspended because they violate G+’s name policy. Okay, I can dig that. They want people to use their real...
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An open letter to the makers of the Google+ and...
Dear Google+ and Facebook, Your Android apps both suck. I have completely uninstalled the G+ app from my Android phone because not only did the auto-upload function suffer from Alzheimers, the photo sharing only showed the first fifteen photos you’d ever taken and all sorts of useful features were missing. Not only that. It also got extraordinarily greedy with space. The last G+ app...
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August 2011
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My trials and tribulations with social media...
Social media nerds might get a kick out of my (to most people) utterly pointless tribulations with the myriad of different social networks through which I spout my inane shit. I has got a Facebook account. (http://www.facebook.com/troels.pleimert) I has got a Twitter account. (http://www.twitter.com/torbenfrost) I would desperately like these two to get chummy, but I would also like them to do...
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Someone is wrong on the Internet. →
Today I discovered The Internet Nobody Database and I really wish I hadn’t.
The site pretends to be a “satirical” encyclopedia of various on-line reviewers, albeit written from an incredibly snarky point of view. And that’s putting it very mildly.
What it really is, is a series of loosely connected hate-smears about reviewers on That Guy With the Glasses and Cinemassacre....
Hvorfor jeg ikke kommenterer valget →
Jeg ved ikke med jer, men jeg er begyndt fuldstændig at tune valget ud. Hvis der er valgdebat eller nyhedsudsendelse om valget, så slår jeg væk.
Jeg kan ikke stole på nogle af kandidaterne over en dørtærskel, for alt, hvad der vælter ud af dem, er enten skrevet af en spindoktor eller en lobbyist, og jeg har ikke tiltro til nogen af dem.
Jeg giver ikke en skid for valgvideoer. Eller...
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