Songs or albums?

18/12/2016 / Leave a comment

I suspect that there are two primary audiences of music. One is people who listen to short songs individually while the other is people who prefer a series of longer pieces such as a symphony or concept album. The first category is what dominates the folk, pop and rap charts while the second is dominant…

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Progress on the Sims replacement

02/12/2016 / Leave a comment

A few weeks earlier I proposed making a Sims clone. Since then I have pressed forward somewhat obsessively since using the working title of “Humans”. Initially though the direction of development won’t be what you are likely expecting.

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24/11/2016 / Leave a comment

Is he a god? Is he insane?
No! He’s the Eleatian Philosopher!
A strange visitor from across the waves
he has come to our city to fight for
Truth!
Justice
And the Athenian way!

Let’s play The Sims 4: Imprisonment challenge

21/11/2016 / Leave a comment

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Let’s replace the Sims

21/11/2016 / 1 Comment

Mammoth Hunter: Somebody please make this movie!

03/11/2016 / Leave a comment

Once again I am giving away a plot because I want to see how someone do it properly. If you produce the movie I outline below I promise I will not make any claim of intellectual property. I do however ask to please notify me of where I can see it. The common pop…

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Why Metallica aren’t reliving their glory days

27/10/2016 / Leave a comment

Metallica’s new single Hard Wired is the perfect example of this band hasn’t been interesting for thirty years.

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Taking a break

19/09/2016 / Leave a comment

I’m currently taking a break from finishing post. During this time I’m drafting articles, working out a better writing schedule and doing unrelated productive tasks.

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Introducing 7Eights

08/09/2016 / Leave a comment

7Eigths logo

Akira Kimura has created a new web site called 7Eigths with the ambition of fixing the music industry.

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Computer myths – part 1

03/09/2016 / Leave a comment

Nobody specialises

Everyone who works with computers has encountered this misconception in real life. There are a lot of things that can be done with a computer. You can create books, animations 2D and 3D, music, crunch numbers from a scientific experiment and more. Nobody has time to learn all of this. Nonetheless if you program or maintain computers for a living you are expected to know how to do everything. All you can do is guess quickly.

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