When Good Game Stores Go Good

I don't know what it is, but part of the appeal of going into a game store is going somewhere that's kind of a not a bad place to be but not a real nice one either.

My local game store (I say local when it was a good 40 minute drive with no traffic) moved from the location where I first discovered it. It used to be in this run down strip mall next to a Piggly Wiggly or Save Rite or some other kind of discount grocery store. It actually didn’t look like the safest place to be after dark either. You would walk in and it was kind of dingy. The carpet was dirty. The walls still had tape on them where various posters and announcements had previously occupied space. You could hear the cacophony of various games going on in the gaming area. A Magic game here, Role Playing there and always some kind of Warhammer something or other going on. Basically it was a place where a good deal many people would not feel that comfortable unless you were "in the know" or part of the culture.

Almost as Satisfying as a Smite Button

Well, I think I’ve figured out how to lessen traffic during the morning or evening commute.

I live in the metro Atlanta area. As many of you may know, traffic here is probably 3^rd or 4^th worst in the nation. A good many of the problems are at the fault of various things being spilt, dropped, sprayed, leaked, oozed or otherwise strewn about the interstate system.

The Winter Games Are Over. Did You Notice?

Well, I, for one, thought the Olympic coverage was abysmal. Proof positive that the inmates are running the asylum over at NBC. It’s like they said, "Let’s show the US runs/jumps/races and then the people who actually won. I mean the Luge finals were boiled down to 10 minutes. 10 minutes! Only so we could get back to Michelle Kwan falling on her behind or some special interest story about some figure skater’s cousin who competed in a neighborhood match that took place next to an Olympic venue. Sheesh.

Well, I’m here…

Greetings and salutations! I know what you are thinking... "Crikey! Another babbling blogger. Just what the internet needs." Well, tough, I say. I've been wanting to do this for awhile so now it is getting done and that's that. Hopefully people will find some mildly entertaining thoughts here. If not, there's always dilbertbog.typepad.com!

Archived Studio Notes vol. 4

Soon I will have my first release ready to go. I already have a few tracks ready for mastering. I'm currently finishing up a brand spanking new track called "Deep Thought I". The CD will be mostly ambient and experimental and will consist of tracks I did while I was in college. I'm pretty excited about this. I plan on making it available through the web site here as well as on CD Baby and anybody else I can strike some deals with. I'm going to look into Ambient.us and other online download only sites as well. A friend of mine is currently working on the artwork for the cover. Normally I would do that myself but he's a pro and I wanted this to look great.
Stay tuned...

Archived Studio Notes vol. 3

There is a new addition to the Intelligent Design Studios... Spectrasonics Atmosphere. Atmosphere bills itself as a "Dream Synth" and it is exactly that. That VSTi sounds amazing. I got it on eBay for about 180.00 less than what it retails for. All I can say is after about one hour of listening to some of the sounds I'm totally inspired. I'm looking forward to having this in my arsenal for future tracks. I'm sure I'll be getting a lot of mileage out of this one.



The only thing I don't like about it is that the Spectrasonics EULA forbids you from making loops with Atmosphere and selling them as part of a collection. I guess I understand their point. They did spend lots of time sampling lots of instruments to create their sound set. But still it is a bit annoying.

Intelligent Design Theory Remixes Serious by 4o1k

Intelligent Design Theory Remixes the track "Serious" by 4o1k. IDT's take on the track leans more towards the progressive side of electronica. Check it out over at 4o1k Productions. (link will open in a new window) Look for "Serious (IDT Remix)".