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Moving Images

Game of Thrones [http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html] Years ago, when I first started reading George RR Martin’s series, I found immediate comparisons with HBO’s The Sopranos. The sex, violence and backstabbing in Westeros was right on par with Tony, Paulie, Christopher and the rest of

Game On

Fallout 3 [http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Fallout-3/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802425307d5?cid=search] The world is gorgeous and vast, and the atmosphere is downright horrific, but the character animations give the entire thing a healthy dose of Uncanny Valley. The scripting is a bit off as well, so it feels like

On Gamification

Recently there’s been a lot of talk about Gamification. Applying the principles of video games to every day tasks – notably, the addictive “compulsion loop” of grindfests like World of Warcraft and other rpgs. Jane McGonigal’s book Reality is Broken is leading the charge. The author had recently suffered

One Last Thing

Posted something I wrote years ago: New York Vignettes [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=411].  Makes me nostalgic for those streets of Manhattan… [![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_35Tb4BicIFQ/SkbXOUz2q6I/AAAAAAAAAho/kYocp0vbuWA/s400/IMG_6739.JPG)](https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KqaNf5nGElZ6t2H2EshP6Q?feat=embedwebsite) From [NY Late June](https:

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

I just put up two lists that contain all the Music [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=390] and Book Reviews [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=397] I’ve done since the start.

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