Category Archives: analysis

Learning to Cheat Without Breaking the Rules, Part 2: Frameworks for Cheating

Posted on December 24, 2011 by metatim

For the same reason as in Part 1, these posts are illustrated using the Hand of Fate: Comic Strip Playing Cards by Karen Rubins. In the first part I explained how a sequence of games taught me to become comfortable … Continue reading →

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Inception Diagram and Explanation (spoilers, obviously)

Posted on December 13, 2010 by metatim

If you’ve somehow found yourself looking at this page but actually want to avoid Spoilers for Inception, you should leave now. Right. People are posting Inception Theories all over the internet, but even the ones that agree with me aren’t … Continue reading →

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Learning from Disney's mistakes

Posted on February 21, 2010 by metatim

Up until Home on the Range in 2004, Disney was releasing a hand-drawn animated feature pretty much every year. The Princess and the Frog marks their return to the form after a gap of five years. I read the story … Continue reading →

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