Or, why reporters get a bad rap.
Maths is hard. Well, it’s not really, but many people, for whatever reason, decide that it’s too hard for them. Unfortunately, sometimes they go on to use that lack of knowledge to do damage to not only themselves but the industry in general. Enter Kotaku, stage left. Continue reading →
I was lost. Seriously lost. And homesick.
The first part of this series is available here: Play ball, sports fans!
You know that feeling you get when you step off the plane in a foreign country, make your way past the slavering jackals in immigration, step outside for the first time and get punched in the gut by the humidity, stare at all the signs written in strange, sometimes moving sigils for twenty minutes until you finally get accosted by a bizarre man wearing spectacles who’s waving some yellow paper in hand and trying to drag you into a three-wheeled trike with a donkey in the back, and, amidst all the chaotic raucous, you pause and ask yourself what the hell you were thinking in the first place?
Yeah, that was me about fifteen minutes after loading up MLB 09: The Show. Continue reading →