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Samit Sarkar
New York
Associate Editor at Destructoid, mostly covering sports games
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Kevin Butler is my hero. Every ad he has ever done for Sony is GOLD.
Alright, so that PlayStation Move commercial was actually pretty funny
I've been a PS3 owner for the last few months, and I can't say that I was all too excited about Sony's announcement of PlayStation Move at GDC this year. Well, except for the fact that it looks like a neon ice cream cone from the future! That would make it pretty cool, but only if it ta...
I wonder if MLB licensing could allow for Negro League teams in, say, MLB 10 The Show. That'd be great!
When games look back
Many of you know I'm a baseball fan, and I've written here about my infatuation with table-top sims like Strat-O-Matic Baseball. These games taught me to love rule-bound systems that provoke strategic critical thinking, and they forever instilled in me an appreciation for the poetry of number...
Aw, that's great! She'll be taking on "Birthday" on Expert before you know it!
The best way to get her started might be to have her play the drum track on Easy -- "no fail" is on by default on that difficulty.
Zoe on the skins
If I promise not to drag out the home videos too often, will you indulge me this time? :-) (Clearly, when dad's busy playing bass his vocabulary shrinks to "Yay!")
I love how two of the bits of text in the image are, like, "That Tiff chick is pretty sexy!"
Visualization of online personas by Aaron Zinman
Aaron Zinman's Personas creates an animated visualization of your online persona, creating in an interesting color-coded DNA strip of traits and topics that associate with your name across the Internet. Part of MIT's Metropath(ologies) exhibit, the engine "...uses sophisticated natural langu...
Absolutely. As someone who's had a PS3 pretty much since launch (New Year's Eve, 2006), I always felt like I had to champion the few great games it did have early on. I never felt like enough people were talking about (or playing) a game like Warhawk, for example. And as a preview/review writer, I often see/play games that most people would prejudge and write off, so I always like to spread the word if I see potential.
The pulpiteer
I'm currently working on an essay devoted to Little King's Story. Back in May I posted an early appreciation of the game and, even as I draft it, I know the piece I'm writing now won't be the last. I'm talking the game up on Twitter and Facebook. I even bought a copy for a friend. Suddenly, ...
Samit Sarkar is now following .tiff
Jul 23, 2009
Even in the twilight of his career, it was great to see him on the Rangers.
fuckyeahcanada:
If Wayne Gretzky wasn’t the best hockey player of all time, he would be the awkward man
I try here so I don't have to try here.
Hahaha...I didn't even read that far; I just replied as soon as I saw the first mistake lol
Embarrassing myself: my Grade 7 Chrono Trigger fanfic
Crono whipped his sword from its scabard. The blade glistened in the moonlight. “Whatever it is can have the privelidge of being turned into chop suey.” I just remembered this today and looked at it a bit… have a look and laugh at me, because it’s pretty hilariously awful… but I can’t handle lo...
"Scabbard" has two Bs in it. Thus, your 12-year-old self fails.
:)
Embarrassing myself: my Grade 7 Chrono Trigger fanfic
Crono whipped his sword from its scabard. The blade glistened in the moonlight. “Whatever it is can have the privelidge of being turned into chop suey.” I just remembered this today and looked at it a bit… have a look and laugh at me, because it’s pretty hilariously awful… but I can’t handle lo...
Yay Noby Noby .tiff!
the last few weeks' drawings
Oh you know, I've been busy, which is why it's been a while since my last drawing update. For a while I was riding strong on a few fun drawings of slime and ghost clouds matched with a bunch of old floating souls, but this weekend it was clear that I hadn't hit the sketchbook for a while. Thus,...
Again, "Pooping never gets old!"
Hey Ma, I'm on Internet TeeVee!
Area 5 TV is made of win and awesome, or in other words, made up of the fellows who were once behind the (much missed) 1up Show. I've brushed elbows with members Ryan O'Donnel and JayFresh at various points in my game journo past, and was nothing less than ecstatic when they asked me to join t...
Highly recommended: playing Noby Noby Boy in a large group. We did this at Josh's (Zen Albatross) apartment a few weeks ago — there were like ten of us watching one person play, but everyone was shouting suggestions and stuff. It was awesome. And I imagine it was also rather disconcerting for someone just hearing it on its own...
"Grab all three clouds!"
"Get tangled up in that spring!"
"Okay, so you have to eat the guy, and then an animal, and then shit them out slowly to combine them."
"Aw, you broke in half. Eat your own ass to fix it!"
Hey Ma, I'm on Internet TeeVee!
Area 5 TV is made of win and awesome, or in other words, made up of the fellows who were once behind the (much missed) 1up Show. I've brushed elbows with members Ryan O'Donnel and JayFresh at various points in my game journo past, and was nothing less than ecstatic when they asked me to join t...
Noby Noby Boy + Tiff = awesome beyond words.
Hey Ma, I'm on Internet TeeVee!
Area 5 TV is made of win and awesome, or in other words, made up of the fellows who were once behind the (much missed) 1up Show. I've brushed elbows with members Ryan O'Donnel and JayFresh at various points in my game journo past, and was nothing less than ecstatic when they asked me to join t...
There we go!
I Love Blogging
Well I do, otherwise I wouldn't be doing the things that I do do. But really, I love blogging, and since I work at a Six Apart they asked me to write a bit about it all on Everything TypePad. Fancy! You can read the post here (or I've posted it again after the jump for your convenience), but ...
1) Holy fuck, that was a lightning-fast response.
2) Well, I don't really use my Dtoid c-blog at all. I have a Tumblr blog that mostly comprises reblogs of other people's stuff, but there's a good amount of original content on there too. That's it, though. I still haven't made a single post on my Vox blog -- but hey, at least I'm using a theme you designed!
3) It's hilarious that you mentioned my avatar, since, as soon as I posted that comment, I went to my TypePad profile and decided I wanted to upload a new one.
Unfortunately, I have yet to come across a photo of me in which my face can legitimately be described as "lovely" or anything close to it, so I'm probably just going to use the same thing I use everywhere: a New York Yankees logo.
I Love Blogging
Well I do, otherwise I wouldn't be doing the things that I do do. But really, I love blogging, and since I work at a Six Apart they asked me to write a bit about it all on Everything TypePad. Fancy! You can read the post here (or I've posted it again after the jump for your convenience), but ...
Hahaha, I had a Xanga back in my high school days. Eek.
But yeah, I blog because it's unbelievably cool to be able to share my love of videogames with millions of readers all across the interwebs. And I also love oddities of the 'net!
I Love Blogging
Well I do, otherwise I wouldn't be doing the things that I do do. But really, I love blogging, and since I work at a Six Apart they asked me to write a bit about it all on Everything TypePad. Fancy! You can read the post here (or I've posted it again after the jump for your convenience), but ...
Hm...apparently, I waited too long to edit.
Anyway, I FOUND IT!!! Here it is, in Pedro's photostream! It was totally a spur-of-the-moment thing, too. (In case you couldn't figure it out, my hand is on the left, and Velcro's is on the right).
Goatse in The Legend of Zelda
Well geez, it's always been there but how could I not post this. Note: I didn't think I'd have to explain myself, but for the sake of safe Internet practice, for those of you who don't know what "goatse" is, please, for the love of god check the wikipedia article before you try searching for...
Haha, awesome. There's a photo of Tyler Perry goatse somewhere, featuring me and Dtoider Velcroman, from the very first NY NARP...I'll see if I can dig it up.
Goatse in The Legend of Zelda
Well geez, it's always been there but how could I not post this. Note: I didn't think I'd have to explain myself, but for the sake of safe Internet practice, for those of you who don't know what "goatse" is, please, for the love of god check the wikipedia article before you try searching for...
As you wish, m'lady.
Also, looking the pages of your notebook makes my eyes hurt (and it's not just from the ZOMG PINK! color).
Anyway, you may (or may not, I have no legitimate idea) be "a real shitty oil painter," but you're a fantastic sketch artist, at the very least. Granted, I may not be the best judge of artistic talent, since I suck at art-related things -- so my opinion may be worthless to you. But I gave it anyway, unsolicited, and there's nothing you can do about it! BWAHAHA!
this week's drawings (and a meme)
There's been this meme floating around my Facebook newsfeed where folks write a note where they list "25 random things" about themselves. Once someone's written their 25 random things, they tag 25 friends who they want to read 25 random things about, and so on and so forth. Yes it's meme-y, a...
30 Rock is currently, IMO, the funniest show on television. Great choice!
this week's plushes
I'm sick. It was a long time coming, and although I stayed in all weekend resting and watching 30 Rock (I love Lemon), it inevitably caught up to me. So while I was regaining my health I churned out two new plushes. I haven't created a plush since my friend Dan's present, so I figured it was ...
CONGRATURATIONS!
TypePad Connect = Happy .tiff
So you know how I've dropped a hint or two in my latest posts, bemoaning how I've been really busy at work? That's because I've been hard at work with the TypePad Connect team, and today our beautifully built TPC baby has been released to the masses for everyone to try. TPC allows bloggers on...
O HAI
Oh, hi.
Thanks for dropping by .tiff. I like to know who's passing by, so if you have any comments or want to drop off a genuine, old fahsioney O HAI, please leave a note. That's right, this is some of that hot Friendbook 2.0 action you're seeing right here:
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