http://www.blogizzle.co.uk The Personal Thought Hole of Sam Morris Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:24:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know I have a few followers of this blog who stay up on their underground hip-hop, so I'll start to share a few names. It's quite difficult to find a bunch of artists within this scene as they get little to no attention from mainstream media because their songs ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/music/iller-than-theirs I think I've fallen off the wagon. As new games have come and gone I've always returned to Mass Effect 2 for a few hours of distraction. However, since I've gotten my PC everything has changed. I'm nearly at the point where I can just finish the game but I was ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/games/slow-afterburn-4 A few days ago I mentioned that I'd been playing Eufloria, long story short, it's excellent. The problem is that the game was yet to produce a real challenge, I felt that my first four to six hours were spent learning the game and the way it works. Just as ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/games/data-loss Every now and then I wonder why I'm actually doing this blog thing. I've been getting the feeling recently that I don't lead an interesting enough life to make one blog post everyday. I mean in the last week, most of my blog posts have been about games or my ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/writing/reason I don't normally re-post articles from Nidzumi but last night Archie, Arthur and me talked about Heavy Rain for an hour. You should give it a listen here. Be warned though, it's packed full of spoilers and awful jokes. http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/site-crap/listen I'm actually really enjoying having the option to play all these indie games but I'm starting to pine for something that will really benchmark my new system. That DiRT 2 demo running quite smoothly (1680x1050 Ultra settings DX11 = 34 FPS) scratched some of that itch but I'm still pining ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/games/buried-in-settings I recently purchased the Indie Love Bundle - which the more I think about, the more it feels like stealing - that included Macharinarium, Osmos, And Yet It Moves, Auditorium, Aztaka and Eufloria. The latter two didn't have Mac versions, but as regular followers will know I've recently built a ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/games/eufloria Every month or so a release for Rock Band sparks up my interested. Be it a band I like or one that other people might like, I always debate whether I should pony up and buy a few more tracks. The truth is that I always decide against it because ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/games/salute-your-solution I've just passed the half way point on my degree in Graphic Design and I've finally come to the conclusion that design shouldn't be taught within these academic parameters. The main problem is that design is subjective. What resonates with one person might not with another, so who is to ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/graphics/teaching-design You might have noticed that the last few posts have been about a PC I've speced out and bought. Well today, within 3 minutes of each other, my two orders arrived from different couriers and soon I was knee deep in screwdrivers and computer components. The build didn't go without a ... http://www.blogizzle.co.uk/games/from-scratch