Category Archives: Chapel Hill

Free Free Free To Play, Pay Pay Pay To Win

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Meg

Indie studio Elevate Fun’s new free-to-play iOS Game, FFFFF2P, is Free Free Free Free Free To Play. Like most free-to-play games, you can, of course, pay to win. Free Free Free Free Free To Play smartly satirizes the usual free-to-play … Continue reading →

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Math For Killing Zombies

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Meg

I’m pretty sure being a professor at a small college is the best way to survive the collapse of society.  History professor John Matherson survives in One Second After, and teacher assistant Olive does just fine in An Etiquette Guide To … Continue reading →

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PanemVille: The Hunger Games Adventures

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Meg

The Hunger Games novels suggest so many good games — a minigame hunting prey with Katniss’ arrows (a popular choice for the middle-school girls in my game design classes), a crafting and survival game like Lost In Blue set in … Continue reading →

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An Unpleasant Combat Game

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Meg

Quoted from Leigh Alexander’s blog. Posted without comment, because how could I improve this? What’s your favorite video game? Metal Gear Solid 3. It’s a game set in the Cold War that you can play however you want, but those of … Continue reading →

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But I Really Like This Book

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Meg

Harold: Look, I got Robocop on DVD! Will you watch it with me? Meg: I guess if it’s important to you — Harold: It is! Meg: Then I will read my book in the same room where you watch this … Continue reading →

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My Kind Of Advertising

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Meg
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An Etiquette Guide To The End Times

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Meg

In Maia Sepp’s novella An Etiquette Guide to the End Times, Olive writes a blog answering etiquette questions for well-mannered survivalists in the semi-collapsed society. Just because the earth grows warmer every year, beachfront property is now underwater property, and … Continue reading →

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Still Not Rome.

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Meg

In which my love of the Rome series tricks me into reading another Colleen McCullough novel. I have mixed feelings on Colleen McCullough’s work. On one hand, Caesar’s Women and the rest of her Rome series are epic and well … Continue reading →

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Facepaint

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Meg

I didn’t really start wearing makeup until I was almost thirty. Before that, I’d thought of cosmetics as something one learned to applied skillfully to hide one’s flaws, or  something one should choose carefully to match skin tone and eye … Continue reading →

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Apps That Need To Exist: Skipworthy

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Meg

To improve the Facebook experience for the average user, this app will automatically hide everything shared from Buzzfeed or Upworthy from the user’s Facebook timeline.  Optional upgrades will allow users to block any posts with “…and you’ll never believe what … Continue reading →

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