Tag: Warm up your scroll wheel

I hate bugs. So I made a game about them

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Six years ago I moved from Colorado to North Carolina. We got to the new rental house ahead of our furniture, but we'd brought sleeping bags and a big pad to lay on, so that night my wife and I 'camped' in our new bedroom. These moments can be pretty

The Taylor Swift Experience, part 7: FINALE!

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Welcome to the final post! We've come a long way together. But before we can get to the fun stuff, I have some outstanding business. I've been caught red-handed trying to skip the Holiday EP. Here are my thoughts. **The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection** IT'S A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS ALBUM??? Oh no, and

The Taylor Swift Experience, Part 6: One Minute To Midnights

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In real time, its been six days since I started my Taylor Swift journey. Now here we are, finishing the discography of one of the more prolific superstars of our generation. I don't know the actual numbers on where she stacks up in terms of published content for a multiplatinum

The Taylor Swift Experience, Part 5: The Covid Albums

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It's taken me so long to write about Folklore. I want to get it right, but I don't want to alter the experiment. At one point, I considered cutting this album from the timeline and placing it at the end. I spent 2 hours on the debut album. I spent

The Taylor Swift Experience: Music Crimes

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Since part 1 of this series, people have been telling me they're excited for when I get to reputation. I built it up in my head. I created expectations. As we crept toward it each day, I imagined more and more what I thought it would be like. It'll be

The Taylor Swift Experience, Day 3

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It's day 3. My mind overflows with Taylor Swift. Each waking moment she haunts me. I see her face in my coffee...Actually that's latte art, this barista is really talented. Yeah ok you caught me, it ain't that serious. I'm having a good time with these albums so far. They continue

The Taylor Swift Experience, Day 2

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Warm up your scroll wheel and bust out your reading glasses, because we have a novel to read. I'm not even going to hit you with a big opener because if you plan on making it to the end with me, we need to get moving.   **Fearless Platinum Edition (2008)**   I started

State of the Alex, July 2023

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It's been awhile! As egocentric as it makes me feel, I wanted to give an update about what's going on in my life. And hey, it's still the NFL offseason so I don't have much else to talk about! I've written here a few times about my adventures in unemployment. After

Amino Station – An Asteroid Mining Game

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As I continue my unscheduled freefall through the oxygen-poor skies of unemployment, I've decided to start development on big boy board game #2. This one is called Amino Station, and is a game that tasks its players with building a mining rig from spare parts and using it to mine