I know it’s considered quite tacky to complain about free stuff. It makes you seem ungrateful, entitled, spoiled and bratty. But I’ve held my tongue long enough. Microsoft, your Games with Gold promotion sucks. There. I said it. Granted, a few of the games I’ve gotten through the promotion have …
Read More »Why the DualShock Sucked
People often wonder whether others actually buy games based on controller preference and if it’s a big deal. Well to me, yes, it is a big deal. I definitely buy games on one platform over another purely for the controller feel. If I’m playing a game, I want to be …
Read More »Mismanagement of the Pebble Smartwatch May Have Killed its Chances to Succeed
Looking over the Pebble launch, I’m astonished to that it’s practically a textbook example of how to bungle the launch of a highly anticipated product. Just about everything that could go wrong, did. Production hadn’t even begun before Christmas (remember, it was supposed to ship to backers in September), the …
Read More »A Lamentation on the Death of Windows Live Mesh
Yes I was one of the apparently few people still using Windows Live Mesh near the end of its life cycle. Now that it’s gone for good, I miss it. It was one of the few peer-to-peer file and folder syncing services available at the time and best of all, …
Read More »Now What?
Well, Christopher Dorner’s body was positively identified just a while ago. I don’t know how to feel about this. On one hand, this is a man who is suspected of killing three people and definitely killed a fourth during his shootout with the cops, as part of a revenge scheme. …
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