Observations, rants, and musings by Joe Siegler.
UPDATE 2 JUN 23: I got reinstated. Need to write about that, but in short, it took them 15 days to respond to my original appeal request. Sigh. UPDATE JUN 22: It’s now two weeks later. Nothing’s changed since I wrote this on Jun 15th. A week ago (Jun 8, 2015) I was suspended from […]
I moved from Pennsylvania to Texas in December of 1992. I took a job with 3D Realms (then just called Apogee Software). I left a company of 70,000 to come work for a videogame company in Garland of around 20 or so (most of that was order takers at the time). I stayed there from […]
I just got done watching the documentary from Microsoft called “Game Over”, which is the story of the Atari 2600 and the E.T. cartridge being buried in a landfill in New Mexico. Wanted to write about it a bit, because several parts were pretty powerful for me.
A few months ago, I posted a video showing some video capture sessions from a game I was involved in the creation of, “Rise of the Triad”. The response to that was popular, and then I never delivered any more of them. Well, tonight I have some more to watch. :)
I’ve spent some time with Google’s new Gmail client, Inbox. I’ve used both the desktop variant, and the iOS version. I have a few things I wanted to say about it. Before I do that, watch this video. It is the video that you are shown once you are able to log into the program. […]
I’ve had a TiVo for a long time (14 years), and one of the cooler features is that the service learns what you like, and will record other programs besides the ones you tell it to, thinking you’ll like them. So tonight I’m looking through the recorded shows, I found an episode of “Doctor Who”. […]
I just got done watching the movie “Life Itself”, which is the movie based on the life (and the book) of Roger Ebert. This is a movie that is participating in what I think a new thing is where you can rent movies from PPV while they’re still in theatres. It is a hard movie […]
Rise of the Triad is a game I really loved working on. Well, the original one, I didn’t work on the newer Interceptor version. ROTT was by far my personal highlight of my 20 years working in the videogame industry. Not only was I a mapper in the game, I was a character […]
It’s December 3rd, 2013. That means that 20 years ago, it was December 3rd, 1993. What is the big deal with that? Well, a company I worked for released two new games on that date. “Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold”, and “Duke Nukem II”. That’s right, Apogee (my Apogee, not the current one – from […]
I’ve long been a fan of the old “Siskel & Ebert” movie review shows that I recall watching as far back as the late 70’s. Back then it was the only way to get reviews of that nature. However, as the years have gone by, there’s been a lot of politics, and changing of technical […]
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