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What it’s like to Finally Finish Death Stranding in 2023

I originally bought Death Stranding in the back half of 2020, nearly a year after it came out. Like many people I watched the trailers on…

Oct 28, 2023

an in-game screenshot from Death Stranding, with the player character crouched at the top of a valley looking down at a futuristic city

Oct 28, 2023

Big Robots & Weird Tanks: What is the Mecha Genre Anyway?

I like mech-related media a lot. Seeing big machines explode, shoot, fly, reduced to rubble and so on really tickles the old neurons in…

Jul 30, 2023

Big Robots & Weird Tanks: What is the Mecha Genre Anyway?

Jul 30, 2023

Homo ex Machina ex Homo ex…

The phrase ‘Deus ex Machina’ or ‘God from the Machine’ might be one of the most etymologically rinsed phrases of all time. Originally…

May 7, 2023

Homo ex Machina ex Homo ex…

May 7, 2023

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Taking The Long View on Augmented Reality

It would be an overstatement to say that augmented reality technology has been playing second-fiddle to its more popular cousin, VR. It’s…

Mar 27, 2023

Artist’s render of what a pair of augmented reality glasses might look like

Mar 27, 2023

Moderating AI Outputs: We’ve Been Here Before

At age 16 I thought that postmodern writers of the 50s and 60s were at the cutting edge, breaking away from the resttof modernist writing…

Mar 12, 2023

A 17th century oil painting with a mirror at the very back of the scene which is reflecting the painter themselves

Mar 12, 2023

Self-driving cars are going to be judged by humans

Something that gets thrown around a lot in arguments about the merits of self-driving cars is that the machine making the decisions doesn’t…

Feb 5, 2023

Self-driving cars are going to be judged by humans

Feb 5, 2023

Printers are Weird but People are Weirder

The most common questioned asked of me when I worked as a photocopier technician was easily ‘why do printers break so much?’, and my answer…

Jan 30, 2023

View of the internal workings of a printer with paper trays removed

Jan 30, 2023

Open Source Compost

A great deal of the latest technological developments are innovations in software. AirBnB’s breakout success was not because its founders…

Jan 25, 2023

code displayed on a computer screen

Jan 25, 2023

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Digital design for digital desires

A few weeks ago I was listening to Cory Doctorow on the Team Human podcast, and heard him make the point that the app store for the iPhone…

Jan 16, 2023

A series of flat graphical gears

Jan 16, 2023

AI art sucks, but it doesn’t have to

‘But is it art?’ is a tired old question worn thin by freshman art history papers on Duchamp’s readymades, but here we are again.

Jan 7, 2023

Reflection of the Sydney International Convention Centre in a water feature

Jan 7, 2023

Mateus Brandao

Mateus Brandao

I make bleep bloop music and write about bleep bloop stuff- fiction and non-fiction. Puddle photographer. Tech admin day job

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