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Dragon Age, plus God of War Collection

I had heard of the new Bioware RPG Dragon Age: Origins but I guess I had forgotten about it. Today, I stumbled upon a couple of reviews and some videos and now I’m in love with the game! It appears to be very long (which probably means a few months of gameplay for me; yay!), [...]

Kindle

How many people (who doesn’t matter very much!) do I have to kill to get one of these babies?! And how many more must I slay to get a 3G network in Iran so the wireless facilities work too?! You know what, scratch that. As long as the built-in DRM misfeatures are not too draconian [...]

There Is No AI, Stupid!

My outspoken (and certainly prejudiced and groundless) stance on AI is very well known where I am known myself. I hate the current trends and implementations of what is called Artificial Intelligence.
And what’s with the “artificial” prefix anyway? What is “real intelligence”? Why we call human (organic? carbon-based?) intelligence “real” and silicon-based (germanium-based?!) intelligence “artificial”? [...]

His Darkest Materials

I just finished the “His Dark Materials” trilogy that I’ve already written about. Since I don’t want to spoil any of the story actualities here, I can say only two things about the series.
The ending was really really sad. I’m not talking Hamlet sad, were everyone dies except the kangaroos. I’m not saying that all [...]

A Prayer for the Dying

The book, “A Prayer for the Dying” by Jack Higgins, was extremely fascinating for me. I read it only once or twice, and more than 10 years ago in high school, but it has made its impression on me.
It’s about a former IRA bomb-maker, Martin Fallon, who has left his ideologic work because he has [...]

His Dark Materials

Phantasmagoria, Mortal Combat (forgive me for the ‘C’!) and Twisted Metal!
These have two things in common. First, they are all old games that I found exceptional in some way and enjoyed very much. It was at least 10 years ago since I played any of them for the first time (and many years since I [...]