I am internet. Hear me whine. 2025-05-02T14:27:09Z https://thekinsie.com/ The Kinsie 2026-02-11T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2026_randviews02.html As the sun burns out and the rocks melt into sand, I continue the act of Consuming Media. Here's some stuff I have recently consumed, along with some words about whether or not you should partake in it yourself, as per The Agreement. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2026_newyear.html I'm not much for pity parties, so let's take a step back and see what we accomplished, and what we didn't. 2025-06-23T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2025_demofestfest5.html Once again, a billion tons of demos have landed all at once, eager once again to inform me what upcoming games are going to knock me on my ass and surprise me out of nowhere, and what's going to leave me utterly flummoxed as to how someone could be proud enough of it to show it to others... 2025-06-17T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2025_newpc.html Of Boys and Their Toys, and the myriad issues they try and sit through instead of seeing a professional about 'em. 2025-05-02T14:27:09Z https://thekinsie.com/words/seceff/ Guides on how to make old FPS games work better on modern systems. 2025-03-09T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2025_demofestfest4.html This time around, I decided to maintain a scorecard, categorizing the games I played under three all-encompassing categories, then jotted down some brief thoughts about them later. Guess what this blog post is? 2025-01-03T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2025_newyear.html It is now 2025, the official year of like half of the Terrifying Dystopian Future settings depicted in the popular media of the 1990s. And you know what? Not enormously far off. 2024-11-22T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/words/quake2killers/ Five games that'll kick Quake 2's ass! And ten more that'll die trying! And then... what ACTUALLY happened. 2024-11-13T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2024_randviews01.html As a warmup for having to hack together a whole bunch of words over the next month after months of accumulating rust, here are some random reviews of things I've inflicted upon myself, all united by one core unifying factor: I didn't type enough for them to deserve their own post. 2024-10-16T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2024_tf2killers.html From the archives, back in 2015: An analysis of the situation in the face of a lot of hype for Blizzard's assumed heir to the throne, back when Blizzard were vaguely respected. 2024-09-19T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2024_doomspriteprocessing.html How I do bad sprite edits in questionable software. 2024-09-12T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2024_newsite.html BREAKING NEWS: my website's good now 2024-07-17T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2024_quakeremaster.html It's kind of weird to see people still gripping onto the idea of a new Quake game, so let me sit down and explain it all. 2023-11-18T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2023_hl25.html The Big Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update is interesting from a variety of perspectives. 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2023_flashback2.html copy-pasted notes glued together from the debris of a discord chatlog 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2023_bonk.html A glance under the hood of a cancelled Bonk/PC Genjin game. 2022-11-16T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/words/dnf2001/ Musings on the Duke Nukem Forever 2001 leak, and E3 demo sleight-of-hand. 2022-06-25T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/play/fauxdm/ Deathmatch Simulator is a mod for GZDoom that aims to recreate the thrills and excitement of all the deathmatching you normally need to install a fork of a decade-out-of-date engine build to do, with "100 percent" "accuracy". 2021-05-16T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/play/metadoom/ When Doom 3 and Doom 2016 came out, there were a number of attempts to recreate its gameplay within the boundaries of Classic Doom source ports. But, why restrict yourself to mashing just TWO games together...? 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/words/kingofchicago/ A review of one of many lost futures of the adventure game genre. 2018-12-04T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/words/modmakers/ On the PC platform, now perhaps more than ever, releasing mod tools for your game is a pretty damn good way to win hearts and minds... so where have all the mod tools gone? 2018-04-15T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/blog/2018_dfend.html Make your DOSbox Frontend Purdier! 2018-02-18T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/words/jediknight/ How to get the classic Star Wars FPS to work properly with a minimum of fuss. 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/play/jpf/ A mod for GZDoom that's hard to explain. 2017-08-30T00:00:00Z https://thekinsie.com/words/tombraider/ How to get the classic series to work properly with a minimum of fuss.