October 2024 – The Stillest

Devil May Cry 5: Vergil DLC (2020)

5/5 Playing DMC5 with Vergil makes the game much better. No longer forced to play with V, you can relax and enjoy the full game with an awesome character that plays perfectly. This was the first time I’ve ever played with Vergil in any DMC, and I loved it. Vergil’s moves are impressive and lookContinue reading “Devil May Cry 5: Vergil DLC (2020)”

Jet Li: Rise to Honor (2004)

5/5 If you are a fan of Jet Li movies, you have to play Rise to Honor. This game plays marvelously and is as close as you can get to an interactive Jet Li movie. The plot is your typical martial arts movie plot, which unfortunately I don’t remember much, since I played this gameContinue reading “Jet Li: Rise to Honor (2004)”

Okami (2006)

5/5 I think I played Okami for the first time in 2010. I had heard about it since its release, but I had just never found it on sale in my small town. I had also read for years people on the Phantom Babies forum saying the game was a masterpiece, so I had beenContinue reading “Okami (2006)”

Bayonetta (2009)

5/5 I missed Bayonetta back in 2009 because I didn’t like how the main character looked. Videogames are mostly visual artforms, and if you don’t like what you see in front of you, you probably won’t like interacting with it either. The game was directed by Hideki Kamiya, though, so it remained always in theContinue reading “Bayonetta (2009)”

Randomness Fools by Definition

This article was originally published in Bitcoin Magazine, on December 2, 2022. Nassim Taleb: “Earnings-free assets with no residual value are problematic. The implication is that, owing to the absence of any explicit yield benefitting the holder of bitcoin, if we expect that at any point in the future the value will be zero whenContinue reading “Randomness Fools by Definition”

Some of Bitcoin’s Civilizational Roles

This article was originally published in Bitcoin Magazine, on December 20, 2022. Charlie Munger: “Of course, I hate the bitcoin success, and I don’t welcome a currency that’s useful to kidnappers and extortionists, and so forth. Nor do I like just shoveling out a few extra billions and billions of dollars to somebody who justContinue reading “Some of Bitcoin’s Civilizational Roles”