Recent content by Technocrat

Someone mentioned "Technobabylon" three times, so I materialised. :D While I'd recommend, TB (especially since it's on sale on Steam right now), I'm not exactly impartial, since I wrote it! In terms of "cyberpunk visual novel" like Va11-Ha-11-a, there's Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness...

It's one of those great nineties games, back when they knew how to do cutscenes properly. We get to see Luke Skywalker as Commander Mark Hamill!

I decided I didn't like my job selling insurance policies over the telephone. So, I took an evening course for three months and became certified to teach English as a foreign language. Within a month of that, I was working in a school in South Korea, which was a) a fantastic job b)...

I say "Oh, Ford!" or "Thank Ford for that!" It's a reference to my favourite book.

Older gentleman, you say?

Did you know, at this stage Terry Pratchett's favourite game was Wing Commander?

In April 1994, two very important things happened. a) My family got their first PC (a 486 with Windows 3.1 and 2 whole GB of HDD space) b) PC Gamer announced the Top 50 PC games of all time. I've been scanning bits of the magazine, and thought people might find it interesting to have a...

Old adventures like Fate of Atlantis or Beneath a Steel Sky might do for reading, if using the non-voiced version (or turn the voices off). As an English teacher, I'm always going to say that Typing of the Dead is my favourite educational game of all time, though.

I learned at five - it meant I was able to explain to everyone in the class that what their parents had been telling them about storks and cabbage patches was nonsense!

Psycho Pass Gantz Stein's Gate

Premise - mysterious explosion in Chitunwiza, Zimbabwe kills six people. http://www.zimdiaspora.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10788:chitungwiza-blast-goblin-fought-back&catid=38:travel-tips&Itemid=18 tl;dr - Zimbabwean businessman Clever Kamuyedza buys goblin from...

Daggerfall.

It's a learned prejudice. Fifty years ago, people of different ethnicities kissing on television caused apocalyptic uproars. In fifty years time, nobody will care about men kissing on TV.

My fiancee's a Muslim, and I'm partake of bacon and alcohol less than she does. Indian Muslims are likely to be a lot less hard-line than, say, Saudi Muslims, but the Saudis tend to be secret hypocrites rather than just not caring about it.