When Texting Destroyed Social Investment

Remember that shiny new Samsung clamshell smartphone I got at the end of April this year? It already broke. The screen suddenly started flickering and turned white. It wasn’t the more fragile hinge or the screen near the hinge, but more likely a loose connector somewhere. Yet I was pretty upset, as the phone was just over six months old. Still...

During a chat with Joel about our unhealthy gaming habits, Joel got angry with me for not inviting him into the DOS Game Club and for not mentioning sooner that I was part of a super-secret club that required intricate handshakes to get in. So press ⌘+P, run to your printer, and bring this very exclusive invite to the coordinates below to follow...

November is no more. I have no idea how that happened, but it did, and here we are now, suddenly already hanging up Christmas lights (why so soon?), frantically preparing end-of-year get-togethers, exchanging gift lists, and possibly even thinking about last year’s New Year’s resolution that this time really should be attainable in the coming...

Remember my analysis and gripes with the Rock Paper Shotgun 100? Well, since I’ve been slowly but surely building up my own video game database over at https://jefklakscodex.com where I log all my playthroughs, I figured I could just as well generate my own list based on the data I already had. I’ve been fiddling with the page for the last week...

This week, Rock Paper Shotgun presented their best games to play on the PC today list or the RPS 100 (2024), another interesting PC video game top 100 list. Another heavily biased top 100 list, which calls for a good doze of armchair scientific analysis to determine exactly how reliable this list is. I do like the presentation of the list: click...