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February 29, 2016
Amazing Metaverse (2016) by Huckleberry Hax
12 tales of mystery from the virtual world by ‘AFK’ author Huckleberry Hax. The first case I ever had that crossed over into Real Life was the problem brought to me by Blackberry Pie, an amazing looking avatar with jet black curls down to her golden crust shoulders and a pout so full it made […]
February 28, 2016
Rift ready
Take heed, Lenovo owners, if it’s your intention to purchase an Oculus Rift. But don’t try this at home. I now have a PC capable of running the Oculus Rift. My Lenovo i7 desktop tower PC has 8GB of RAM and – as of this morning – a GeForce GTX 970. I also have two […]
February 26, 2016
Maybe not today
Apparently only until the end of February, Sommer Shepherd and TracyLynne Carpenter have recreated a number of locations from Casablanca, including the airport and Rick’s Café Américain. I first saw Casablanca when I was at university. I watched it with my housemates. At the end of it, one of them commented that she thought it was ok, […]
February 21, 2016
Coming soon… Amazing Metaverse
I’m currently putting the very final touches on my first ever collection of short stories. Amazing Metaverse will be published in the next few days and will contain twelve of my short stories written over the last nine years, including all six ‘Hard Luck’ stories written to date and all five ‘Avatar dining club’ stories. To […]
February 19, 2016
The Sansar
I just created this comic strip to fill one of the last few spaces in ‘Amazing Metaverse’… and thought I’d also publish it here whilst people still get the joke. [There’s a joke here? -Ed.]
February 17, 2016
A letter to West End girls.
Originally posted on Idle blogs of an idle fellow :
I’ve been fan of pop duo Pet Shop Boys for longer than I’ve been drinking tea in bed, which given I owned a Teasmaid at 14, is bloody ages. Perhaps this was an early indication that rock ‘n’ roll was never going to be my bag.…
I’ve been fan of pop duo Pet Shop Boys for longer than I’ve been drinking tea in bed, which given I owned a Teasmaid at 14, is bloody ages. Perhaps this was an early indication that rock ‘n’ roll was never going to be my bag.…
February 15, 2016
The 25th tweet
Stephen Fry made a joke about someone on the telly. According to the BBC, lots of people complained on Twitter. Although the only actual example they gave was of Sarah. Her 25th ever tweet. Anyway, Stephen quit Twitter. Everyone rounded on Sarah, telling her: Grow up, miseryguts. Lighten up. Get a grip. Get yourself a […]
February 13, 2016
New Babbage: A moving postcard
For the second of my ‘moving postcards,’ I went back to New Babbage to film around the central station. You can see quite clearly in several places that my graphics card is struggling to keep things smooth, but I wanted to try out the Space Navigator I’ve had for about the last four years and […]
February 7, 2016
Field of dreams: a moving postcard
I aim to create more machinima this year. This will be easier when I do a major upgrade in the next few weeks to make my PC Rift-ready, and finally I should then be able to film in ultra graphics mode at 24 frames per second. For now, though, I’m going to try and improve […]
February 6, 2016
New Babbage
A link on Eve Kazan’s always beautiful blog led me to New Babbage, a city spanning eleven sims. Let me repeat that: a city. And this isn’t one of those cardboard cutout places, where every building has an empty interior: different buildings have different functions, and there are so many to discover. In my initial, […]
