5/5 Aside from the occasional bugs, I had no problems with this Definitive Edition. The new classic lighting update is great (and looks great). A good thing about this edition is that the shooting mechanics are better than in the original, and you can change the controls, though I played with the classic control scheme.Continue reading “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City — The Definitive Edition (2021)”
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A Great DMC Essay
Last night I discovered an amazing Devil May Cry essay written by AlexxShadenk, titled “I think a big part of why I like DMC 5 better than 4/4SE is because of how the characters are better balanced in the latest game”. The essay starts with the quote seen in the title and then Alexx proceedsContinue reading “A Great DMC Essay”
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”
The Double-Slit Experiment’s Mystery Explained
In my Thoughts, in section 23, I explained why Feynman called the double-slit experiment the only mystery of quantum mechanics. The idea is that Feynman called the wave-particle duality a mystery because he was confused by language. Language believes in “things”, but strictly speaking there are no “things”, and therefore there are no particles. ThereContinue reading “The Double-Slit Experiment’s Mystery Explained”
Why God Did Not Create the Universe
This text was written in January 2014. I’ve recovered it today and thought it was good enough to post here. I expanded my opinion about this topic a year later, in February 2015, when I had an epiphany, and I will make another post next explaining my current position. Before we even attempt to solveContinue reading “Why God Did Not Create the Universe”
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