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What happened: Roger Ebert wrote an article saying “ video games can never be art ”, dissecting Kellee Santiago’s TEDxUSC speech about games as art (and beyond). She answered . And it totally exploded on the internet in one day. It’s weird because I’m following a bunch of game developers on Twitter and...

I will not talk about computer games as art ever again →

Twittersearch on fan noise. I believe i will have to bring back my Macbook Air. the fan is making constant noise and runs at 6/7ks rpm...not good. The fan on my Newertech MiniStack 2.5 is failing for the third time. I really can't say enough lousy things about it. Solved one problem with iMac now have...

Why we need fanless design →

So Infinity Ward loses more staff after Jason West and Vince Zampella created a new studio, Respawn Entertainment. Lead game designer, lead software engineer, senior animator, not everybody is joining the new game studio but the thing is, Modern Warfare as an IP is sort of dead now. It didn’t take long...

You might want infinite innovation →

U.S. mom's rejection of 7-year-old outrages Russia . Me too. Like I said in a direct French-to-english-translation on Twitter, I was adopted at 6 in France and it was already hard. It still is, in some weird ways. So I’m not surprised. I just can’t believe that the US mom did that this way, fucking up...

MinusOneMom →

There’s not a day without thinking about building a passive house. The number of benefits from having a passive house (PH) is just the key and the answer to a shitload of problems, like global warming. It’s available right now. The principle is simple: best insulation possible so that you don’t need...

Passive Dream →

26°c. ‘Nuff said. Time to get ready to drive to San Francisco and have a wedding weekend before getting back to LA all the way along the coast, looking at the ocean. Sounds good to me!...

West Coast Weekend →