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Left 4 Dead 2: Second Impressions

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Shovas

Now that Left 4 Dead 2 is actually out it occurred to me I should write my second impressions on Left 4 Dead 2.

This is not Religion versus Science

Posted on November 4, 2009November 4, 2009 by Shovas

My recent and, likely, typical posts on this blog have obviously been with a bias toward Christianity. As to this blatant bias I hold no shame. The requirement I hold up for myself is truth. Bias may sway to one end or another, but bias is altogether a wholly different thing than truth, and the man who holds a bias and yet holds truth, that man is to be envied. I may not be that man but that is my goal.

Left 4 Dead 2: First Impressions

Posted on November 3, 2009November 3, 2009 by Shovas

Left 4 Dead was and still is a great game. We’ll have to see how it’s sequel lives up in the long run. I will say this. It’s not worth more than around $20.00. And the price of $44/$49 on Steam is ridiculous.

The Unreasonable Doubt of Rational Deduction

Posted on November 3, 2009February 22, 2013 by Shovas

Because science relies only on what we know to reliably reveal the truth, we call this objective inquiry or rational thought. But this is only rational if you’re blissfully innocent of all senses to the contrary of the result. In actuality, science, as the penultimate source of truth, is the abandonment of reason.

The Paradox In Which all Men Believe

Posted on November 2, 2009November 1, 2009 by Shovas

There is a paradox to the Christian faith which concerns the origins of our existence. The paradox consists of realizing that everything has a cause, hence our existence was created by God. But everything has a cause; Then God must have had a cause; So, really, that cause is God; And that intermediate “God” wasn’t really God.

Prince of Persia Retrospective

Posted on October 27, 2009October 25, 2009 by Shovas

I hold up Prince of Persia: Sands of Time as probably the best game of all time. Unfortunately, Ubisoft absolutely destroyed the soul of the game when it released the sequel Warrior Within.

AAC+: An impressive audio codec

Posted on October 26, 2009October 25, 2009 by Shovas

High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (AAC+) is a standard for encoding audio data that far exceeds existing formats for quality and space, including mp3 and ogg.