Peter Tieryas
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Who’s Your Favourite NPC In A Game?
9NPCs can make or break a game. My PC introduced me to some of my first NPCs. In Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, a variety of NPCs were there to test your morals and virtues so you could grow as an avatar; as a kid, I really thought I was helping people by giving…
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The Brutal Lessons Gaming Taught Me About Revolutions, Robots, And War
I recently had lunch with a friend who works in tech and he posited to me the ethical question of how we should treat AI as they get more and more sophisticated. He mentioned how machine learning and AI has progressed in ways that would push even science fiction authors to disbelief. As their thought…
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What Games On Your Backlog Do You Want To Finish This New Year?
Every December, I wonder where the year went. Every week before January 1st, I wonder what games from my backlog I will finally get to in the New Year.
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Thunder Force IV Was One Of The Best Shooters Of The 16-Bit Era
Thunder Force IV is the ultimate adrenaline rush and hands down one of the best shooters on the Sega Genesis. It also had one of the most depressing endings on a 16-bit era game.