December 2011
0 posts
November 2011
3 posts
Genre Ruins Everything →
This is a piece I wrote for my video game class as a journal entry. I’m not sure it’s structurally sound, or really makes a valid point, but, hey, why not post it here? I did write it, after all,…
I Quit Games/The Internet but I’m Getting Better →
Well, shit. Where do I even start?
I realized this past week, while paying far too much to renew my stupidly expensive vanity domain name (Armenians charge $50 a year — it’s true), that this is the…
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
don't worry about me
if this rapture thing happens tomorrow life won’t change much here. <3 sin city north. <3 montreal.
April 2011
1 post
July 2010
3 posts
Pretense, Affectation, Video Games →
As I haven’t written anything here in a while, I figured I’d bring over one of my articles from Every Game that I wrote a few weeks ago. I think it has a lot more to do with this blog than it…
can someone photoshop them so they're fighting...
June 2010
10 posts
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
Best Of PS2: Get your votes in! →
The final list of nominations is in for the BEST PS2 GAMES poll, and it’s time to vote! The games which can be voted for are at the bottom of this entry. It’s easy to submit: make your list of your…
March 2010
2 posts
uh
me: i had the best/worst idea for a movie script
a 13 year old kid has sex with his teacher in grade 8 and the teacher never gets caught
fast forward to when he is in his mid 20s and he finds out he has a teenage son
it's a buddy flick
Coint and Plick: what is the best PS2 game of all... →
Listen, I’ll be honest with you here: I didn’t start a blog because I care that you hear my opinion. I care more about your opinion. I know what you’re thinking: “Brilliam, you sure picked a weird…
January 2010
1 post
How To Ruin Six Friendships In 16 Turns Or Less... →
One of the most interesting, enlightening and exciting games I played last year wasn’t even a video game. Insane, isn’t it? I mean, the way we played it, it might as well have been a video game: a…
December 2009
1 post
4 tags
November 2009
1 post
I still live →
It’s been a while, blogosphere.
I mean, do you remember me? I used to write things here. However, I haven’t been around in quite some time. For those who are interested in where I’ve been, I’ll…
October 2009
1 post
August 2009
4 posts
Barnside
I recently coined the term “barnside” in reference to vagina, because if a guy cant’ get laid he “can’t hit the barnside of a broad.”
My question: is this a more amusing term than simply calling it a “vajennifer,” or, by extension, a “va-JLo?”
multi-level marketing
It’s really fucked up when people try to hook you into their MLM schemes. Especially people who otherwies seem like decent, smart, hard-working, non-crazy folks. I remember this dude I used to work with told me about some program he was with for magazines or something. Also, one of my best friendsgrowing up had a dad into the whole Amway thing. I just got mailed a game from Indiana (thanks...
July 2009
6 posts
Fantasia: It’s No 2008 But Some Great Hits →
So I finished my insane-o run of Fantasia films as previously mentioned, and, sadly, many were disappointments. Thirst, Grace, Hells and Black just weren’t quite as good as I hoped– but, as always,…
What's the significance?
I’ve been using this pattern a lot at work. If you can tell me what’s interesting about it, you are probably pretty cool. It’s a neat side effect that it looks almost like a weird spiral going down the page.
0000 0001 0011 0010 0110 0100 0101 0111 1111 1110 1100 1101 1001 1011 1010 1000
I’m going to Fantasia Film Festival today! →
Finally, it begins. I see maybe 30 movies a year in the theatre, and about 25 of those are in July for the Fantasia International Film Festival. I am not a big fan of going to films– I hate the…
To Brilliam, my favorite Canadian
riser:
Dear Brilliam, when I jokingly sent you a response to your status message of “Working on Canada Day FML” by saying “Canada has a day?,” I only wanted to strike up a conversation with you because you are my favorite Canadian. I was quite aware that Canada has a Canada Day.
It was not my intention to offend your Canadian sensibilities and if I did so offend said Canadian sensibilities, I...
June 2009
7 posts
On txtadv's tumblarity
Will: haha we are now, in canada, between "fuckyeahcanada" and "fuckyeahwolves"
Will: amazing
Tiff: lol
Tiff: so we're above fuckyeawolves?
Will: no
Will: we're below it
Will: we're tied with canada
Tiff: damn.
Tiff: we need to get above fuckyeahwolves
Will: haha
Will: if you post one we'll be tied w/ them i think!
Tiff: it's our fuckyeahdestiny
FOX
Travis: so there is a new show on fox
Travis: a "the bachelor" show
Travis: for fat people
Travis: called "more to love"
Will: jesus
Travis: i think they should have made it about fat families moving furniture into new houses (which they keep) in a time limit
Travis: and called it "more cushion for the pushin' "
Will: hahaha
Will: fat people who have to find dinosaur fossils
Will: call it big-boned
Travis: hahaha
Travis: fat people getting sex changes
Travis: "it's a glandular thing!"
Will: a bunch of fat people have to learn instruents so they can open for black sabbath
Will: "heavy set"
Travis: harrr
Will: or a show where skinny people find love called
Will: "let's stop celebrating non-health"
There are 5 things you should not do in the...
1) sex 2) PDAs 3) sleep 4) look at porn 5) play a game of the sims where you are controlling people you know
poetry
two days ago i ate two burgers at that place called buns. you know it? it’s on st. laurent. near pins. never mind. i felt like shit. like, really bad. like food coma doesn’t communicate how bad. food dead came to mind. i don’t think it works, though. i didn’t shit that night. then, yesterday, I drank some coke zero because I thought I wasn’t allergic to aspartame...
Scribblenauts Hard Modes →
I’ve been thinking a lot recently, as I’m sure much of the Internet has, about the possibilities that will be in Scribblenauts. It presents an intriguing way of play: your imagination is your…
the last guardian
Travis: i hope it's something like it has to leave to become a guardian and fulfill its noble bullshit destiny or something
Travis: so it's still depressing but at least it's not horrible
Will: it's called the last guardian, dude
Travis: i know
Travis: that's what i mean
Will: do you know what happened at the end of the last mohican?
May 2009
14 posts
Text Adventure, The Videogame Typography Blog →
And for my second small post that simply links somewhere else, I’d also like to draw your attention to Text Adventure.
Tiff Chow and I are curating what will hopefully be a totally dope…
Right And Wrong In A World Without Morality Meters →
I’m not usually one to play the “link something interesting” game with my blog, but you owe it to yourself to read this. Angus of Tango Lima Delta Romeo has written a very thoughtful piece on the…
I may be late to the party but wow, Chiptune...
1st world water
Jonathan: I tend to talk about really pop stuff like
Jonathan: it's too sweet and syrupy
Jonathan: and some people are like
Jonathan: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
Jonathan: POP? SWEET?
Will: pfffffff
Will: pop is sweet
Jonathan: exactly
Will: in canada we don't call it soda
Will: so it makes perfect sense
Jonathan: heh
Jonathan: you also get your water in bags
Will: water in bags
Will: hahahaha
Will: you mean milk?
Jonathan: I thought you guys got water in bags too
Will: NO
Will: hahahahaha
Will: ONLY MILK
Jonathan: WHATEVER
Will: they tried doing juice once i think too in the 90s
Will: but people were like
Will: wtf
Will: bags are for milk stupid
Jonathan: heh
Will: we get water from a tap like the rest of the first world
Tumblr sucks at organizing stuff I wanna see!
Okay, Tumblr, you got some work to do.
1) I want to see what of mine has been reblogged, and what has been liked, and who liked it, right? But, I go to my page and that info isn’t there. I can only see that in the DASHBOARD. So to see my stuff from three weeks ago, or more, I need to go back like 50 pages.
1b) AWESOME WORKAROUND: make a second account and only follow yourself. It’s...
the cultural elitists
samit:
brilliam:
samit:
inthefade:
The conversation starts off innocently:
“We don’t own a television.”
Good for you. I admire that. As a tv addict, I know how all-consuming television can be. Unfortunately, any conversation that starts off with that sentence usually devolves in about three seconds.
“We’re so much better than you. We’re smarter, more cultured and just better people all...