The times they are a changin'. From here on out, personal thoughts, ideas, and posts will land here at me.raddevon.com. My former blog is now devoted to tech, the Internet, and gaming. Check that out at raddevon.com.
I’ve been working on cleaning up the blog a little bit. For those of you reading from Vox, check out my new site at RadDevon.com to read the stories straight from the source. Don’t worry. I’ll still be cross-posting to Vox as well for the time being. Sorry for the delay in posting the second part of this series. In this chapter, we’ll be doing bad stuff with hamsters (no, not that bad) Here comes more gaming weirdness! Read the rest of this entry »
No matter how much I want to fancy myself an intellectual, and regardless of how much I hate popular culture, there are facets of it that I can’t seem to escape… nor do I really feel the need to do so. One of these is electronic gaming.
My relationship with video games was very simple for the majority of my life so far. I played them almost any chance I got. I rarely finished them, but I got a taste of them all. This was the way things were until about 3 years ago when I swore off television. Read the rest of this entry »
Unfortunately, I lack the vocabulary necessary to talk about cinema or works of fiction, but I do want to share a couple of movies I watched recently and absolutely loved. Read the rest of this entry »
My girlfriend and I used to rent movies at the Movie Gallery here in Knoxville. I liked them because they had lots of obscure films and because they didn’t try to play “moral police” like most of the major players. She liked them for these reasons and because she worked there for several years. A couple of weeks ago we went to rent some movies, and they had closed for good! All the movies had already been moved out of the place! We asked around, but no one seems to know what happened. Well, recently we had an itch for a movie. We were going to go to Blockbuster except that one rental is two-thirds the cost of a month of their rental plan. We decided to try a rental service. I wanted to look for alternatives before going with the Blockbuster plan. Of course, there’s Netflix, but they have some troubling policies, too (read: rumored political censorship and the dreaded throttling). Read the rest of this entry »
RT @ninjapocalypse: @BobertHepker Don't buy that paint if it's not 1080p. You don't want to spend $4800 on a can of paint just to find it's interlaced.
