Daily Archives: September 21, 2009
The Things You Learn About Yourself Playing Star Wars Video Games
Posted on September 21, 2009 52 Comments
There was a special on Star Wars-related FPS games on Steam over the weekend, so I bought a bunch of old games for $20 and then spent a large portion of the weekend playing Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. And while it’s all sorts of fun cutting up storm troopers and Sith acolytes with […]
My Life Is Good But I’m Worried Yours is Better
Posted on September 21, 2009 94 Comments
Cartoonist Tim Kreider writes over at the New York Times about something he calls “the Referendum,” in which people in their early middle age (think 40 to 45) look at the lives of all their friends and try to figure out how their own lives match up to theirs. This is basically indistinguishable to what […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying