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		<title>Bullshit Review of _Find the Dog_</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/bullshit-review-of-_find-the-dog_/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the bullshit of this bullshit review -- a real review would be too difficult to write.

This is a fine game -- parser works, pictures work -- text does its job -- the main problem being you can't download it.  Which is fine if you have a decent internet connection, but my tubes are slow.

The premise is vaguely amusing.  You play a 50 year old neighborhood woman who makes a bundle ($150 a week) to dog-sit a woman's dog at her apartment.  The interaction with the 50 year old neighborhood bachelors at McDonalds in the morning is frighteningly on.  I suspect the author lurked and took notes, or perhaps is a 50 year old woman himself.

The complication hits immediately:  The dog dies.  This is almost immediate, but after you've played a few rounds and imagine this is shaping up to be some kind of Dog Sim, complete with minigames like Clean Up After Rover (did you bring a plastic bag?)

It's been established that this dog is your bread and butter -- "Are you SERIOUS?  $150 a week to WALK A DOG?" the bachelors exclaim -- and you basically have no other income except for a woefully inadequate social security check that on inspection causes your player character to mentally review your older friends who have sold off their belongings, or taken in strange boarders, or so forth, to eek by on theirs.

Therefore, when the dog dies -- or more accurately, is discovered dead in the apartment -- the correct response is adequately indicated by context, but by no means obvious.  You must [spoiler]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1972&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OWS in the news</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/ows-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be honest, I&#8217;ve been surprised to see my little blog covered nationally.  But when major lobbying firms are planning a coordinated PR attack, that&#8217;s &#8212; that&#8217;s just out of control.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1970&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hobo -&gt; Occupy Bangor!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[a more substantial entry] The title says it all &#8212; I&#8217;ve taken up with the Occupy Bangor crowd these past two weeks. It&#8217;s a peculiar thing. I could be in a heated shelter with a lot of drunks, or &#8220;roughing it&#8221; with protestors. I don&#8217;t follow the news, but from what I get, the portrayals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1967&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest:  Occupy Bangor!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[update &#8211; I&#8217;m running with the Occupy Bangor crowd this past week. I&#8217;m online with a blog relating to that experience, which you can find at http://conradcook.wordpress.com. That&#8217;s an unofficial blog. What you see in the news about the 99% crowd doesn&#8217;t really capture the reality.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1964&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/the-latest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest for me is that I seem to be wrapping up my walkabout.  I say seem to because these things don&#8217;t involve a decision from me. Wikipedia tells us the walkabout was primarily about shirking work and institutional regulation, and from my point of view this is a nontrivial dimension of it.  So to speak.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1962&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch People Think!</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/watch-people-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://vimeo.com/7885752 In other news, I&#8217;m closing the IFComp &#8217;10 surveys now.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1937&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wrapping Up the Comp &amp; Surveys&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/wrapping-up-the-comp-surveys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/?p=1933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all getting ready for the end of the Comp.  I&#8217;ve had my first author inquiry about his survey data, and I regret that I had to tell him that he had only three people respond for his game. C&#8217;mon, people!  I mean, I know we&#8217;re all busy.  I myself had Life get in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1933&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Play IF on a Haunted Typewriter!</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/play-if-on-a-haunted-typewriter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s actually selling them&#8230; http://upnotnorth.net/projects/typewriter/ &#8230;but if he is, you&#8217;d better sign up quick! ps.  Isn&#8217;t somebody out there looking for a way to bring IF to kids?  &#8220;Back when I was your age, we had to play computer games on typewriters&#8230;&#8221; Tagged: interactive fiction<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1929&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mom!  You&#8217;re Breaking the 4th Wall!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/mom-youre-breaking-the-4th-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend, Becky &#8212; (Hi, Becky!) &#8212; who describes herself as an ex-hippie.  She dislikes representations of violence, and wouldn&#8217;t buy her son video games. Becky told me today that when he was old enough, her son bought a copy of &#8220;Grand Auto Theft.&#8221;  She could hear it and wasn&#8217;t too happy about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1916&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC10 review &#8211; Flight of the Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/ifc10-review-flight-of-the-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a review of a Comp game, and as often happens in reviews of Comp games, I will be Saying Things about this game.  There&#8217;s one thing we need before we begin&#8230; There.  I&#8217;ll get a new one soon. Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin, is a fine game.  It&#8217;s entertaining, fast-paced, and very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onewetsneaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8117442&amp;post=1903&amp;subd=onewetsneaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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