https://eturnip.com/A minimal, responsive and feature-rich Jekyll theme for technical writing. 2026-07-06T16:13:33+00:00 Owen McManus https://eturnip.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Owen McManus /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://eturnip.com/posts/713/ Owen McManus

Over the next few weeks I will be writing some more short stories for a contest. I will likely have some things to jot down here about writing. So right now I am going to do something a little different. I’m going to tell you about the best joke I have ever seen. Very early in I think my second or third year of university, I was walking past the archeology department building. I was probably ...

2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://eturnip.com/posts/712/ Owen McManus

I have an absolutely enormous collection of old games. Literally thousands of them. While I do play a lot of newer games, I also dip into this collection on a near daily basis. It would be easy to write this off as nostalgia, but I don’t think that old games are better than newer ones, or that game development peaked sometime back when I was younger. It’s more that I think a good game is a good...

2026-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://eturnip.com/posts/711/ Owen McManus

I solved some development problems today. That isn’t really noteworthy. Making any part of a game is solving an unending torrent of problems. Nothing more, nothing less. Making games, like any sort of creative work, never really has any procedural aspect. A point where you are going through the motions. You solve one problem, then another, then another. Maybe you make a new problem when you s...

2026-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://eturnip.com/posts/710/ Owen McManus

It ain’t perfect. It’s not even that much fun. But it works.

2026-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://eturnip.com/posts/709/ Owen McManus

Best Games - Wave Race 64 Some games just feel right. There isn’t really much to Wave Race 64, when you get right down to it. The big, beautiful, 3D sequel to a simple Gameboy jet ski racing title. There aren’t really that many tracks. There are only a few riders and they aren’t very different from one another. There are stunt and time trial modes. You can play split screen multiplayer. On p...