Erik Novales

If this is to be believed, Radiohead are now approximately $10 million richer. I’m also a cheapskate, apparently, because I only forked out 2 quid. The album’s alright, BTW.

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I recently saw a link to this blog entry by Christer Ericson (of SCEA), which is a pretty amusing rip on an academic who has tut-tutted the game development community about poor AI. (Definitely check out the video linked in the blog entry to get the proper context for this entry.) I frequently see gamers [...]

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As a recent sufferer of a nasty cold, I had my first opportunity to use nighttime cold medicines without pseudoephedrine. I bought some Tylenol Cold Head Congestion and put it to work, comparing it against the remainder of a box of Nyquil that we had which did contain pseudoephedrine. Strangely, even though pseudoephedrine is alleged [...]

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The Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer expansion pack is out in the US now, so go pick up a copy. (I didn’t work on it directly, but I did help out at various stages consulting on bug fixes and feature additions, particularly relating to the toolset.)

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The story is here. Since I’ve worked pretty extensively with Bioware‘s stuff before (for Neverwinter Nights 2), I feel somehow obligated to react to this…heh. This is an interesting acquisition, and while I’m not any sort of expert in corporate finance, I do not think that this is necessarily a good move for EA. Why? [...]

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I’ve been feeling under the weather for the last week or so, which is why I haven’t really written much. (We’ve been stricken by a pretty bad cold.) I do have some more stuff in the pipeline, which will hopefully be thought-provoking and interesting, so stay tuned…

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The Compact Disc is increasingly becoming a delivery format rather than a playback format. It’s hard for me to say when this became true for me — probably in the last couple of years, during which time I can’t remember the last time I turned on, much less used, the CD changer in my entertainment [...]

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It’s not bad, actually. I bought one of those fridge boxes of it, and have been slowly consuming it. It has kind of a strange aftertaste (rinsing afterwards with water is probably not a bad idea), but it’s overall fairly pleasant to drink. I can’t say that I’m clamoring for it to become a permanent [...]

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Radiohead has taken the interesting step of self-publishing their new album in downloadable form, for a user-defined price. People who pre-order the album (due October 10th) are presented with a form where the price for In Rainbows can be filled in, along with a question mark. Clicking the question mark leads to a page that [...]

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