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		<title>Death &amp; R-Type</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about writing on R-Type for some time now. It&#8217;s one of the finest series that the industry has produced and I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the excellent design of every entry Irem has made. But recently, I&#8217;ve been thinking about R-Type Final. See, the R-Type series is known for its punishing difficulty—all of its]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=220</link>
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		<title>Game Maker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I&#8217;d heard anyone mention &#8220;Game Maker&#8221; I immediately lost interest in what followed. It seemed to me to be a hamstrung platform for dabblers without any real merit. Perhaps it is that in the intervening time it has had a chance to evolve, or perhaps I was just wrong in the first place. Either]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=217</link>
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		<title>Disaster Averted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like my blog managed to suffer through whatever was causing my posts to disappear. Also the theme I was using broke in the process. New theme! I like this one, but it needs some tweaking to be really nice. Hoping to write about my latest project a bit.]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=175</link>
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		<title>Days of yore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been working on my arcade cabinet a lot; perfecting the software side. Wait. Okay, first thing&#8217;s first. I finished my arcade cabinet! Months ago.. ..and I didn&#8217;t post about it. Well, anyway, since then I&#8217;d not had too much time to work on it until recently. I still feel a bit weird about]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=170</link>
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		<title>Some Good Albums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just mucking around in iTunes and I made a playlist of albums that have an &#8220;average&#8221; rating of 5-stars (derived from the scores of the included songs). The list was kind of short, and included some that I didn&#8217;t expect. My at-work library doesn&#8217;t include all of my music either, but here are]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Streets of Rage 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Streets of Rage 2. For some reason, I can never get tired of this game. It seems like I should. At a glance it is merely another formulaic cookie; cut from the same mould established by golden-age greats such as Double Dragon and Golden Axe. It’s embarrassing, too! My favourite game—Shadow of the Colossus—is a]]></description>
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		<title>Arcade Cabinet Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hm, I didn’t really keep updating my progress. Since the last update a lot of stuff has happened. The controls finally shipped as well as the keyboard emulator (I-PAC). The keyboard tray was added. I think of all the visible components it kind of looks the most hacky, but thankfully it will be almost completely]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Arcade Cabinet Project: Days Four and Five</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are progressing, a little slower than I was expecting, but hey, I&#8217;m learning! It&#8217;s OK! Firstly, I attempted to make the bottom access panel without using a frame. The door was too heavy! Major sagging and bad alignment issues. Even with the Euro hinges I only got about a 45 degree opening angle. Not]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=139</link>
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		<title>Arcade Cabinet Project: Day Three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Third day of actual construction and things are going well! Not much to say, managed to get the sides nice and even and fit the blocks and trays. Did a lot of sanding to fix minor measuring errors. So far nothing more than about 1mm here and there, so hopefully that won&#8217;t have a significant]]></description>
		<link>http://grappa.kuiki.net/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Arcade Cabinet Project: The Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I should be recording this. Okay, so, for the longest time I&#8217;ve been interested in the idea of owning an arcade cabinet for MAME, fighting games and general gaming tomfoolery. For the longest time this hasn&#8217;t been even concievable &#8211; living in an apartment pretty much makes it impossible. Buying one outright is ridiculously expensive,]]></description>
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