Kasperian Moving Parts

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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged (I blame Twitter), and I had an interesting week, this last, so I figured I’d blog about it. Probably should be a bunch of individual posts, but blef and here goes….
Yesterday was an awesome end to an otherwise already pretty good week. I got to play Tetrinet with [...]

I happened to see this amazing shoryuken.com post that has an awesome video about Keystone II and the next *drool* version *salivate* of the most awesome fighting game ever *slobber*: Street Fighter IV. I was also excited to see my fellow VMwarian, Tom Cannon, in the video. DANG I wish I was back in Cali [...]

Last in our series of “when will that Jason kid shut up?!?” is this short, little ditty wherein I extol the wonders of an ancient Linux file server in my basement with a 250GB drive, my shiny (SHINY!!!) new PS3, my PSP, and the nifty little Open Source project of MediaTomb.
Being out of the “being [...]

Warning: a brain dump followeth:
Blockbuster has sweetened their deal by allowing in-store trade-ins of online-rented movies. This, to me, blows NetFlix out of the water, since NetFlix does not yet have a brick-and-mortar presence anywhere (?). And, because we signed up with Blockbuster a while ago, we still get to keep our 2 [...]

When I won my PSP from a raffle at LinuxWorld, I honestly didn’t think that highly of it. In fact, my first thought was “I wonder if Linux would run on this.” It’s not worth it, IIRC, but what’s truly surprised me is the coolness of the PSP. It has built-in WIFI, [...]

Here’s an interesting e-mail exchange between me and the Ubisoft folks in regards to their amazing new game, Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory…
Customer (Jason Kasper) – 06/06/2005 01:04 PM
Hi there.  I would very much like to buy Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but I don’t want my children to have to listen to all of the swearing. [...]

I’ve posted some new pictures from my latest mod. Thanks to John from modeverything.com, I’ve successfully modded a PS1 Series H DualShock controller for the brains of my second-player arcade stick controller.
It was REALLY tight soldering, and I don’t claim to have done it well. In retrospect, I should have probably [...]

So, I’ve done a bunch of research and question-asking and reading and cursing and gamestopping and some more reading and some more question-asking, etc. When I originally built my custom arcade sticks, I used the PCB’s from old PSX digital-only controllers, since they were the easiest to hack and solder. These worked [...]

I’ve finally broken down and purchased an Xbox. Circuit City had it combined with the DVD playback kit ($30 value) for $149.99, which seemed to be a good enough deal to fork over the money. I must say… it is REALLY nice. Microsoft has done an exceptional job at building, marketing, [...]

Woot, baybee!! It was a good weekend, this. And, to top it off, I played halo for an hour and 20 minutes tonight, and I feel absolutely fine!! I played upstairs, in the dining room this time, and I think that’s what made the difference. It’s in the middle of [...]

phew. it’s all about learning…. wow. this is the sickest I think I’ve felt yet. I probably pushed myself too hard tonight. I played for 2 solid hours this evening, much to the delight of my kiddos. my little bride was tired and shagged out and spent the evening [...]

and finally…. a post on slashdot that give me a slight glimmer of hope…
You *can* train yourself out of this. The UK RAF does this for pilots over a matter of months: its worst for navigators because they do the reverse of what we’re speaking about: they look at a motionless screen while [...]

Man, I’m excited about this…. I found this…. All I can say is… Josh, you’d better get yer game back, baybee…. =:) Ooooh. This looks soooo intense.

If you’ve never played any of the Street Fighter games, well, you’ve probably wandered onto this page accidentally. The unquestioned king [...]

So, I found this bit of research today….. I’m finding plenty of pages that document that existence of simulator sickness, but haven’t yet found anything that talks about how to combat it. =:/
Still looking….
My newly-purchased Halo PC game just arrived in my mailbox today. I’d like to think that I’ve not just [...]

Woot! So, I managed to last a half-hour with halo tonight! I think it might be because I was talking with my kiddos while I was playing it. Maybe that kept my stomach distracted….
But I got off the ship finally, went through several checkpoints, and got in my first [...]

So, I played halo for a bit the other day. =:)
My theory is that I can gradually convince my body to not react negatively to these video games. I have no research or reason to believe that my theory is correct. Rather, I think, I am driven by a desire [...]

I am determined to figure out how to beat simulator sickness. There has to be some tricks or something to get my body to not be confused/sickened/making me feel like puking.
Wish me luck.
And let me know if you have any secret hints!!!

So, I got Halo for the PC, got all excited about it, figured I’d spend a few days learning it, then take my game online and trounce any unsuspecting fellow halo-ers soundly. I cleaned off the hard drive *excitement building*, made room for halo *excitement building*, installed halo *excitement building*, all the while [...]