Here’s the comic that would also have appeared on Tuesday. I decided to publish it today just in case I was inspired to draw a comic for Friday’s episode of Strip Search. The research, published in PLOS ONE last week, had 21 subjects put on a regimen on Nintendo Wii games, and then tested on [...]
I’m off again to the land of ice and snow (Syracuse, not Norway) so no comics until next Friday probably. In the meantime, I leave you with this Guild Wars 2 related holiday greeting. Take care everyone, and have a great time celebrating whatever you celebrate!
Decided to mix in some Guild Wars 2 imagery* for this comic, which is sort of a sequel to It’s Important and It’s Really Important, and the spiritual successor to the Show Me Your Cyber Face comic from a while back. I dare say the first panel overshadows the rest of the comic in scope, and [...]
In college, Nadir and I were avid cosplayers, though I don’t know if that word existed back then or if it even applied to what we did. It was normal Halloween stuff: Luchodores, fairy tale duos*, religious figures, and probably the best Jay and Silent Bob around. I didn’t dress up as anything when I [...]
Originally part of yesterday’s comic, this panel was cut out in order to make for a punchier punch line. For those who don’t know, the game engine in Skyrim sometimes glitches, causing any object that can be picked up to go flying across the room. This can be preceded by just about anything, and can scare the [...]
I’m still on vacation, so you’ll have to forgive me for another game comic and short post. It was an easy grab in the face of having no time for a proper comic, and I’m currently writing through a haze of alcohol, tobacco, and sunscreen fumes. Just before I left, I got a chance to [...]
Those that know Nadir and me personally or otherwise know that we take great pride in how we present ourselves and each other on the intertubes. My “online face” is as much a vehicle of self expression as my real one—though I admit my online face is less lumpy and gets more haircuts. It is [...]
One of the best things to happen in the history of computer gaming is, without a doubt, modding. For the uninitiated, a mod is a player-created addition to an existing game. In the beginning, modding was crude: replace some sprites, put in new music, and voila, you have Star Wars Doom. Thankfully, over the years [...]
Yesterday I featured the preliminary work of a Stanford/Northwestern University team claims to have succeeded in embedding 30-character passwords into the subconscious memory of it’s subjects. The group will present their findings at the 21st USENIX Security Symposium in August. The interesting part for me was how they accomplished this. As mentioned yesterday, implicit memory [...]
Just some updates to my recent video game community comic, which I have added there as well. Seems most folks commenting on the strip are getting hung up on the term “gamer.” They define a gamer as somebody who has clocked 200 hours on Skyrim (who hasn’t?) or plays competitively. I understand the sentiment and all [...]