One input, two different results

As if to give life to itself, two separate careers started as a simple "choose your own adventure" game on early 1980's home computers. The setting In the early 80's, myself and my best friend Joshua had home computers. Unfortunately,…

Michael Earls 02 February 2017

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One day, work and school will no longer feel like "work"

When I was in my early twenties, I used to imagine a future where work and school were no longer considered "work". I envisioned a scenario where kids and young adults would simply sit at a desk and "play" a…

Michael Earls 30 December 2016

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Game Review - Destiny for XBox One

There are an enormous number of game reviews for Bungie’s Destiny game written by professional journalists who get paid for writing game reviews, so I will try to give a personal approach to my review. When Destiny was first…

Michael Earls 30 November 2015

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Game Review: Ori and the Blind Forest

One of the reasons I chose the XBox Bundle that I did (besides the 1TB hard drive) was because of the games it included. One of those games was Ori and the Blind Forest. From the very start, I was…

Michael Earls 02 November 2015

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Game Review: Valiant Hearts: The Great War

One of this month’s Games for Gold on XBox Live is Valiant Hearts: The Great War. I downloaded it last night and started playing. The game takes you through the lives of four characters during World War I. It…

Michael Earls 29 October 2015

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Playing ESO and Getting more mileage from my Dell XPS 420

I bought my desktop PC in 2007. I bought a Dell XPS 420 with 2 GB of RAM in it. It’s a quad core Pentium i5 running at 1.2 GHz. A few years later, I upgraded the video…

Michael Earls 23 April 2015

Gaming PC

X-Wing Miniatures Game

I finally bought my own copy of the X-Wing miniatures game yesterday. Laurie was kind enough to play with me last night. It turns out she really enjoyed the game so I’ll probably get to play more of it…

Michael Earls 20 July 2014

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First Gaming Systems

When I was a kid, our first home gaming machine was the Telstar Pong console. I think it had four “games” and three levels of difficulty (the size of the “paddle” got smaller). Oddly enough, I still have this thing,…

Michael Earls 04 August 2009

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A 8-post collection

Michael Earls

I have been a computer nerd since I was ten years old. I begged my parents to buy me a computer for Christmas. In 1982, I was the proud owner of a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. I've been coding since.