Jetstream vs Lightning Bolt

[All Sizes] (75 x 75) - (1280 x 720)

[All Sizes] (75 x 75) - (1280 x 720)

The Dark Descent | Fear of a Different Sort

Amnesia: The Dark Descent has been sitting in my Steam library for almost two years now. For someone who has a sort of noted preference for survival-horror games, I'm still not entirely sure why I never touched it until two days ago. It could have simply been the backdrop, which while dripping with atmosphere, isn't exactly the most rare setting in a game (I think Penumbra actually edges it out in that regard). It also could just as well have been the almost instinctual impulse of negation towards crowd praise I'm somewhat partial to. This isn't to say that Amnesia is a critical darling above and beyond reproach, just that it was/is consistently lauded for being one of the few games keeping 'survival-horror's essence' alive where most games have simply abandoned it. I always knew I'd have to take that bit of information into consideration when I finally got to it.

"Nice Hat."

[All Sizes] (75 x 75) - (2560 x 1440)

Black Noise & Quality of Commentary

Definition of WHITE NOISE:

1

a : a heterogeneous mixture of sound waves extending over a wide frequency range — compare pink noise

b : a constant background noise; especially : one that drowns out other sounds

2

: meaningless or distracting commotion, hubbub, or chatter <the white noise of policy and politics in America — Joseph Nocera>^[1]

Definition of BLACK NOISE:

Black noise is also called silent noise.

• Silence

• Noise with a 1/fβ spectrum, where β > 2. This formula is used to model the frequency of natural disasters.

• Noise that has a frequency spectrum of predominantly zero power level over all frequencies except for a few narrow bands or spikes. Note: An example of black noise in a facsimile transmission system is the spectrum that might be obtained when scanning a black area in which there are a few random white spots. Thus, in the time domain, a few random pulses occur while scanning.
• Noise with a spectrum corresponding to the blackbody radiation (thermal noise).^[2][3]

Another somewhat amusing post from the guy who has his comments turned off^[4]. It’s been in my older drafts for a long time though, and I’ve seen some semi-related commentary bubbling up recently so I thought I’d go ahead and hammer the rest of it out.

Nintendo & Me | I've Changed My Relationship to 'It's Complicated'

I trapped myself in my room over the weekend and went about completing Super Mario Bros. U, ZombiU, and making some major progress in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. I've warmed up to my little Wii U, but I'm also kind of iffy on trying to care about Nintendo itself at this point. This seems to be the topic this week, as a string of Nintendo announcements has everybody questioning Nintendo's place and relevance for 'today's gamer'.