Ideas
Ideas are important. There are two conceptions we seem to have of what ideas are, what ideas do: The first is that the world runs on ideas, that new ideas fundamentally shift the world, and that just coming up with…
Category Life in the Machine
More Problems
[INSERT FOOTAGE OF MAN IN BUSINESS ATTIRE TURNING AROUND IN LEATHER OFFICE CHAIR] Oh, hello, I didn’t see you there. My name is P. Rob LeMachin, CEO and sole proprietor of Problem Machine. Now, you might wonder what we do…
Invisible Walls
A thing about video games that I wonder sometimes if people really understand is that they’re made to be completed by the player. Dark Souls is made to be completed. Cuphead is made to be completed. The most challenging (or…
Connections
A sense of humor is an important thing to have. I think people often underestimate the importance and functionality of humor – we think of humor as being the engine that powers jokes, that makes us laugh, that entertains and…
Balance, Mix, and Master
I’m frustrated with the role that dissatisfaction plays in my life, and I’m also dissatisfied with frustration. I’ve been trying to… optimize. Trying to figure out a particular life goal and to aim towards it, to sort out which contradictory…
Justice
I generally haven’t watched much in the way of television over the last decade or so – little bits here and there, occasionally bingeing on a series or seeing an episode or two at someone else’s house. Over the last…
Daily Ghosts
As you may have noticed, I took a bit of a break. Why? Oh, I just wanted to take some time to figure things out, to think about better ways to approach my life. I wanted to see what a…
EverEnding DevBlog, September 2017: Accumulation
Another weird month! They’re all weird months, now. I suppose that makes them normal, in a way. In an actual for real way, though, they remain weird. Last month I mentioned that I was going to be working less on…
Fate
A little while ago I was participating in a conversation about the nature of causality and whether the information we have supports the idea of a deterministic universe, and I found myself getting perhaps uncharacteristically defensive. If you aren’t familiar…
Kaiji
Kaiji is a manga about a young man named Itou Kaiji driven into a series of increasingly desperate and outlandish gambles to escape debt and save his own life. The first two parts of have received animated adaptations, but currently…