The Doglion

The Hunger Games Review

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Hunger Games was my follow up after I had finished A Dance With Dragons. I needed something to fill the void and get me over my depression at having to wait several years for more G.R.R.Martin goodness. I mention this to put [...]

Arsene Wenger Interview FC Cologne 8th of August 2012

Arsene Wenger, the FC meets Arsenal FC. What do you expect from the friendly in Cologne? Arsène Wenger: “It will of course be a very emotional game for the fans and Lukas Podolski. Lukas has a strong connection with FC Cologne, he played there since he was ten years old, and has given a lot [...]

I moved to thedoglion.tumblr.com

So I’m moving my blog again. I find that tumblr is just more streamlined and straightforward. So future posts will be there, of course you can get the a RSS feed there as well as follow on twitter. My tumblr will have more frequent and bitesized content, as well as more elaborate and long posts, which I [...]

SOPA is wrong, because online piracy is right

Over recent months, the anger and resistance against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) as well as the “Protect IP Act” (PIPA) has been growing and growing, and for good reason. Many people understand that should these bills pass, the US government will basically have the legal means to censor the internet, under the pretense [...]

Reinventing Mongolia’s education system

My final year in high-school For the thousandth time, our math teacher recites the formula for finding the derivative of a function. Last night’s homework was to find the derivatives for 45 functions, and at this point, I’m really good at it. I have been doing this for one and a half years, with the [...]

This “elite” private school in Mongolia is Fucked Up

So this has nothing to do with gaming. Lately I’ve been looking into the Zeitgeist Movement again. If you read one of my older posts, you will know that I am in deep support of the movement and the values that it stands for. I felt like expressing some of my own observations and thoughts [...]

On Breaking Bad

Hello there. It’s been a long time since my last post. But now I feel like writing again. About “Breaking Bad”. I just watched the last episode of season 4 and felt like sharing some thoughts not just on the season, but on the series itself. There will be spoilers a plenty here, so go watch [...]

Gaming Diary: Finally finished a Resident Evil game

(This is my first “Gaming Diary” entry, where I just want to casually write about stuff I’m playing with some thoughts. I play older games on PC (I don’t have a strong rig, it’s a Dell Dimension 5000 from 2005) or on my PSP, where I can play older console games using emulators and of [...]

Try “Fred The Fly”

I made a game! It’s a simple 2 Player game, where one player uses the mouse to control a fly flap, trying to catch the other player who controls the fly with the keyboard. The goal of the fly is to catch the bread crumbs flying around. For Fred to win, he must eat 5 [...]

Looking At: Portal 2

[This review contains spoilers, so don't even think of reading it if you plan to play i!t] Portal 2 is a game that does everything right, but your experience can vary quite a lot depending on if you have played its predecessor before. Valve did really the best possible job anyone could have done on [...]