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)”
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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”
Truth Is a Falsification
This text was written in January 2014. I’ve recovered it yesterday and thought it was good enough to post here. What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm,Continue reading “Truth Is a Falsification”
Devil May Cry 5 (2019)
4/5 I finally played DMC5 last year. It was fun, but I was expecting a better game. It was cool to play as Nero and Dante, but V was an awful character to play with. Playing with V was just a mindless mashing of buttons while trying to keep some distance from the enemies, itContinue reading “Devil May Cry 5 (2019)”
A Night in Lahti
It was my first time traveling alone to a different country, and I was finally going to watch Alek Száhala play live for the first time, after years of listening to his music on my PC at home. I was beyond excited. After arriving in Helsinki, I took the train to Lahti. I had theContinue reading “A Night in Lahti”
The Stillest 