22. 02. 2012
Draft Excluder, Volume 2

Draft Excluder, Volume 2

Because the last one was so popular. The Tyranny of Bone China – In which your humble narrator attempts to find the name of a plate pattern. A Dark Tea-time – In which...

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19. 08. 2011
From Dust to Ashes

From Dust to Ashes

I preordered From Dust. In my defence, I didn’t realise it was an Ubisoft game, but when they announced that it wouldn’t have their DRM system that means you have to be connected...

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14. 03. 2010
Mothers and pie

Mothers and pie

Today is Mother’s Day in the UK, and Pi day everywhere. So, in lieu of actual content the Paul and Storm “Mother’s Day” song, as performed at the concert I went to: And...

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08. 03. 2010
More Piracy

More Piracy

As an appendix to the previous post on the subject: Rock Paper Shotgun: Ubisoft’s servers have been down/overloaded for around the last ten hours, making it impossible for people in some parts of...

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19. 02. 2010
Piracy

Piracy

This is a flowchart to explain why people pirate movies. Ubisoft, who publish games, have implemented a new DRM solution in reaction to the reported fact that too high a percentage of PC...

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