Archives - June 2010

We should

Yep . Also, meth is on the rise in the US and Europe has almost doubled its number of cokeheads . During that time in Chicago last week-end, 54 people shot and 10 dead over drugs, gangs and territory-related topics. I think we should legalize all the drugs right now. We need to stop having a completely...

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The design of the decade

Tesla Roadster somewhere in Santa Monica, June 2010 It’s not the car in itself. It’s the silent revolution and what goes around it. Miami Vice! Like I said on Twitter, it’s a-ma-zing to have such a powerful acceleration while listening to music, not barely hearing it due to a fucking huge combustion...

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E3DS and things

30 minutes in line and then I could have a 20 minutes session playing games and get the Nintenthingy in my hands. Yeah yeah yeah 3D works. When it does, it’s pretty amazing. Problems: eye view distance, ambient light are changing the 3D effect from not working at all to outstandingly “real in your face...

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e3 10 and stuff

So Ubisoft lost two of its big name game designers in two months (Clint Hocking and Patrice Désilets, creative directors on the Splinter Cell serie, Far Cry 2, the Assassin’s Creed serie, the Prince of Persia serie yeah, the biggest Ubi games) while Prince of Persia in Hollywood flavor is a disaster...

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Starvation

Does the Internet Make You Dumber? I thought about that article writing on Akira, when I had to wait years before being able to watch it again. I had to go to the Fnac store to read and workout the heavy 12 manga volumes edition, month after month, to get my Neo Tokyo fix. I had to squeeze my memory...

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Akira

Around May and June, each year since then I sort of think about it. I alway have a quick feeling about this time, the time I saw this movie which would totally and absolutely change my perception of stories and narration. It was out  May 8th, 1991 in France. I must have seen it during the Ascension...

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I want my shareware back

Why would we have app stores when we have Internet, why would we go for that? (Google is doing a web store , even Asus is doing one for netbooks). How Apogee Software, Epic Megagames and ID could make at the peak of the shareware business, 100,000$ a month by selling and sending floppy discs to much...

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