Panda's files

  Considering recent elections in US I decided to write a piece about this, as in Poland we also lived through a rise of post-truth politics and hopefully we will see soon it's final collapse. This is based on my own observations and experiences and hopefully you'll find a glimmer of hope in this writing, because it most probably get worse before it will get better. I will relate this mostly to Polish situation as I don't want to force narration on US state of things. Also as many EU countries face the same dangers these days more people will be able to relate and compare. I'm simplifying stuff here for brevity sake, and keep in mind that there are no "good guys" in politics. There are bad guys that make some policies work barely, just so they get re-elected and there are horrible people that will lie to you about why they couldn't do what they promised and how they will make future even better. How did we get there? There were actually two major events th...

    I just finished watching two let's plays and a long play of the DOS game, The Quivering. The reason it was 3 separate plays was that the first guy gave up upset after 2 hours and the 2nd two other guys gave up 30 min before the end, while also pretty pissed because of what they thought was a bug. Long play was just to see the last half hour. I think there was no bug in their case, but in their defense there was a very confusing way to pick dialog options that they couldn't figure out. I usually just watch LPs of games that are obtuse and I judged this one perfectly. I prefer some commentary because it keeps me following the story, while I'm usually doing something completely else and just eye the game play from time to time. Confusing puzzles and frequent deaths were common at the time, but what really upset the players were limited numbers of saves to the number of imps you collect along the way, or in 2nd half - win in a slot machine that can kill you at ...

It's October, go play Crow Country . I'm not joking, you don't need this recommendation, if you like survival horror or cool retro stuff - it's worth it. If you're still here, I'll be brief with the story introduction, because it's best experiencing it yourself. As Agent Mara you come by car to a closed down theme park - Crow Country. You look for the owner - Mr. Crow. Armed with a pistol, you enter the premises and somehow you bump into some body horror, human shaped beings that seem to be aggressive. While other people you meet in the theme park, somehow at the same time as you decided to come, are shocked by their presence - you, Mara, were expecting them... are almost familiar. Keeping to yourself, you explore the Crows Country secrets, learning what's been going on here really. There is one reason you came here - you need to find Mr. Crow. Aesthetics Big selling point are the original PlayStation graphics or rather how they look in our nostalgic mem...

Thank you for visiting. I'll post here a more long form texts from what I'm into right now which mostly is gaming, media, technology or some caveman level philosophy. I'll start with reposting edited versions of some stuff that I already wrote. Feel free to put your thoughts in the comments, on BlueSky or Twitter .