Dec 07
Villains and heroes are so easily set into their ways, but the ideas of alignment and morality start to lose their meaning when you throw someone at them who belongs in a straitjacket. Video games are a medium where the insane can be commonplace and rather encouraged within the main populace, so it is not …
Jul 06
Subscribe to HalfBeard’s HUDcast In this episode we’re going by a new cohost while Michael is off battling the Australian wastes, we talk about Sony’s possible future in the sky thanks to cloud based gaming, and we continue to btich about Nintendo and Square-Enix because they keep giving us reasons to. Cool thing of the …
Jun 30
Do you guys remember what Quantum Conundrum is? You should, because we only reviewed it on Monday, and I previously told you how the basitarist for the band The Presidents of the United States of America (I copied and pasted that again) Chris Ballew created all the funk for it. Well Square Enix and Iam8bit …
Jun 25
Apparently it’s totally possible to both love something endlessly and hate it with all of your being.
Jun 21
I just want to live in that fuzzy dimension, even the most brutal violence would be the happiest thing ever…or perhaps that makes it the worst kind of hell? Fuck, now I’m torn.
Jun 20
Chris Ballew is the vocalist and basitarist (a six-string guitar with two bass strings) for the American alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America: Or Pot USA if you only understand abbreviations or are too lazy to read the entire band name. You may also know him as Caspar Babypants because …
May 30
Is it just me or are the RPGs we play just filled to the brim with bastards.
Jan 16
When I think of games, I think of a lot of other things besides games. As a sense of disclosure rears its head without giving too much away, I am a huge fan of media as a whole. Television, Movies, The Internet, Radio….I try to absorb its narrative constructs and interesting little tidbits piece-by-piece alongside …
Oct 25
Fandom. While the premise of this word and the context behind it are not entirely cringe-worthy, what this term has spawned has certainly made me shudder. We are all fans of some thing or another. However, that level of interest can become an obsession which has launched incredible amounts of debate, even more distrust and …
Oct 04
When it comes to narrative and what people enjoy, the antagonists are generally considered more interesting than protagonists. This is because they are more interesting as a foil to the hero and are considered the point of change which drives the plot. While I certainly don’t believe in such a thing because I happen to …
