Category: Diary
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Forward/Story, and taking yourself seriously
I do not take myself seriously. It’s a shield as much as it’s a curse; at some point in my life, I must have learned that being earnest, being honest about my work and my passions, opened me up to others in a way that gave them advantage over me. If I speak too honestly,…
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Australia! I am leaving.
I could not have dreamed that any of this would have happened.
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GRANTCON Report
A con about me, starring all my friends.
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It is mango season.
These mangoes. Let me tell you about these mangoes.
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WEIRD FOREIGN DRINKS PARTY
It is Saturday and it is time for WEIRD FORGEIGN DRINKS PARTY. At Weird Foreign Drinks party you bring 1) A selection of the strangest foreign drinks you can find worth roughly $10 and 2) a bottle of some cheap spirit, or even better, a bottle of some weirdo liqueur or discount firewater. You arrive,…
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THE FIRST GAME I EVER GAMESMASTERED: ZAIBATSU, 2002
One hot summer day in 2002, we played ZAIBATSU, a game of cyberpunk espionage in a Gibsonesque-but-updated future.
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This one time, I met Hulk Hogan
It’s been two years since my first interview as a video games journalist. Two years since my best interview, too, incidentally, because my first interview consisted entirely of Hulk Hogan.
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I have lived in Australia for a year
… and it has flown by.
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My 10 (actually 11) favourite games of the year
Technically, this is eleven games and not all of them were released this year; but this year was the first time I understood them, the first time they left a mark.
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I took my wife on a date in Minecraft
“I want to go on an adventure,” she said.