Dear Caco-Bot: My brother and I grew up in poverty. Schizoaffective disorder disabled me for most of my life. However , Japanese medical researchers invented a new medication to address my worst symptoms. This medication — paliperidone — gives me the ability to one day support myself. For the past couple of years I have …
In this article, I will describe how to set up the original Wing Commander for MS-DOS with modern PC FPS, emulation of orchestral sound effects courtesy of a Roland MT-32, and crisp, performant CRT “shaders” for that old-school monitor look. I am not very good with videos and realize that a lot of kids today …
The President will isse an Executive Order to abolish The Department of Education tomorrow. So much for teachers, special education classes, and student loans. There is also talk of abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which helps to prevent abusive overdraft fees on behalf of banks, and exploitation by predatory check-cashing businesses. 80,000 probationary and …
When you’re a Wanderer like me, the older you get, the more difficult it becomes to relate to your peers, because you slowly move more and more outside their sphere of understanding. The normal gameplay loop for the Human Sim involves realizing somewhere in adolescence that life is not all about you and what you …
I dreamed once again that the world was about to end . . . but once again not in the usual way. Some fool in the distant past had wished before an all-powerful singularity that the entire universe be transformed into an ever-expanding conglomeration of infinite varieties of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The entity who had …
When Fallout 2 first came out, I was in heaven, because it gave me the chance to role-play, in a video game, a character I had always wanted to be. “A fast, violent bombshell who goes crazy with sex and drugs as soon as she leaves home.” I wanted to be a stereotypical “comic book …