Macular Degeneration

sucks. But what also sucks is people writing books about macular degeneration for patients with macular degeneration in a font that would be difficult for a person with macular degeneration to read. Sure, they made the text big in the book I'm talking about, but they used a serif font. There's a reason I chose a template that defaulted to a sans serif font. If you have bad vision, sans serif fonts are far easier to read, especially on a screen. I expect you can read this fairly well, but imagine if the text looked like this and you were half-blind. That would be difficult, I expect. I think serif fonts are pretty, especially in print, but not for a publication aimed at those with bad eyesight.

Zelda Wii Confirmed for 2010 Release

I'm trying not to get too excited about this news, just because Zelda release dates tend to get pushed back. Repeatedly. Still, I promise not to complain (much) about changes in the release date. Experience has taught us an extremely valuable lesson: games developed on too strict of a schedule will be released in fundamentally unfinished states. This is the reason behind The Problem With Licensed Games. If you have to get a game to stores by the time the movie is released, even the best game developers will have trouble making a good game in such a restrictive timeframe.Of course, there's also the problem that the plots that make for good games are not the same as the plots that make for good movies (Fun Fact: Ecks vs. Sever was a pretty well-reviewed game, despite being loosely based on the Worst Movie Ever).

Anyway, I make no secret of the fact that I think that Zelda is the best game franchise in history. I will not equivocate that statement! Even if this next one sucks horribly, I will still be immeasurably excited for the one after that. But I'm not even remotely worried about that, because the games are so consistently fun. I'm nearly finished with Spirit Tracks, I think. It's pretty good, even if I wish I could have gotten more dungeons out of it. Oh well. It was still worth my time. I don't really have a problem with the train element—in many ways it works better than the boat did, even if it does provide a really easy excuse for the game to railroad the players. Yeah, I know. That was terrible. No more puns for me.

Sliced Bread

It's only good for two things: sandwiches and toast. That would make one tend to think that the people who manufacture sliced bread would do their best to make sure that it works very well for the purposes of sandwiches and toast. One would be wrong, however, if one thought that. The sliced bread I bought quite recently for the purpose of making a sandwich failed when I attempted to use it for one of the most popular sandwiches in history: peanut butter and jelly. Although it withstood the raspberry jam admirably, the bread began to fall apart when I began to apply peanut butter. The stickiness and viscosity of the creamy peanut butter was clearly too much for this bread.

This is a travesty. An outrage. A—dare I say it?—crime against the sandwich-loving populace. Bread must be able to withstand having peanut butter spread upon it. I shouldn't even have to say this.

A Disclaimer

No worlds were destroyed in the making of this blog.