Science Fiction, The Present, The Past, And The Future.

If you look at the first science fiction books, and the effects they had, and the real world inventions they inspired, I am quite sure you will be amazed. Ever notice the similarity between SkyNet and cloud computing? How about the similarity between a Star Trek communicator and a cellphone? 

Or, reaching back to the great grandfather of sci-fi, The War Of The World by H.G. Wells, it was the first book to ever depict aliens as hostile invaders, it depicted chemical weaponry well before it's use in WWI, it even depicted lasers decades before one was every made. Science fiction authors frequently imagine the future, and though they tend to be way of in the broad strokes (for instance, we have yet to have returned to the moon as was depicted in 2001 Space Odyssey), but they have a remarkable tendency to be quite correct with regards to the technology, now weather the story’s of the writers inspire the inventors, or inventor comes up with the idea on his own, I can't say. What I can say is that if half of history's profits were as accurate as science fiction writers at predicting the future, the world should have been destroyed a thousand times over by now.

Honer to Dishonored: A review of Dishonored

I just recently competed my second play-through of the new first person steal/action game Dishonored, and I have to say, wow. I have played a stealth games, I have played first person games, I have played action games, and I have played games that were a combination of all of the above. This game, is better then all of them. The game play was superb, the story was quite good, and stealth aspect to it was superbly implemented. My only two complaints about it are that the graphics could have been a bit better, running at max settings it was about 3 years behind in that regard. The other was that the AI could have been a bit smarter (I'm mean, look up one in a while!), there were parts where I could have tap danced across a ledge or lighting fixture. But other then these relatively minor complaints, it is quite good, certainly one of the best stealth games on the market.

Console games VS. PC games

For around 40 years console games have dominated the video game market. But in the last 20 or so years, a new contender has been gaining an ever increasing share of the the market. That contender is the PC. At first PC games couldn't really compete with consoles. In the mid 90's home computers capable of competing with the consoles were available, but were still fare more expensive then consoles. When the last generation of consoles were launched, PC's and consoles were equally matched. Now five or six years later, the scales have tipped in the PC's favor in terms of price and performance. With the price staying the same, and the performance going up. Consoles however, are doing the exact opposite. Their prices are slowly going down, and their performance is staying the same (for now at least, there will of course be a short spike when the next generation of consoles launch). So, I ask you dear reader, why do we keep shelling out our hard earned dollars on consoles, and console games, when great games, and cheap hardware exist for the PC?