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"Anybody seen herding sheep after the feudal age in Age of Empires II should consider themselves a..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:53:00 -0400

“Anybody seen herding sheep after the feudal age in Age of Empires II should consider themselves a failure in life.”

- Margaret Thatcher (via stickyembraces)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:55 -0400

My favorite Denny’s is Denny’s 6639. So many excellent memories.

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:47:00 -0400

My favorite Denny’s is Denny’s 6639. So many excellent memories.

"I didn’t have to attend the reveal event to watch it; I streamed it on a PC and took notes on..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:00 -0400

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I didn’t have to attend the reveal event to watch it; I streamed it on a PC and took notes on a netbook. I talked to a friend about it on an iPhone. I participated in, processed and ultimately covered the announcements across three different screened devices, none of which was a television. Yet in Microsoft’s world, the TV is still the core of the theoretical home for people who want “immersive worlds and epic battles”.

…

We have compensated for the diminishing ideal of “the living room” by multitasking. We’re an ever-widening generation of multitaskers, of distractionware-devourers. With the Xbox One, which looks remarkably like a 1980s VCR, Microsoft seems to have acknowledged this somewhat, recognizing the disadvantage of accessing a walled garden anything less than instantaneously.

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- Leigh Alexander in her opinion piece about the XBox One launch.

leer aber sexy: rumirumirumirumi replied to your link: what do you think of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:24:00 -0400

leer aber sexy: rumirumirumirumi replied to your link: what do you think of...:

caseyresci:

rumirumirumirumi replied to your link: what do you think of avant-garde? specially with poems

Im into the idea of a historical avant-garde, but I dont think you can really start that history in America until Gertrude Stein.

I think in American poetry a certain vanguard spirit is usually traced back to Whitman and Dickinson, in different ways but at the same moment. Whitman’s blank verse and refusal of traditional metrical restraint in favor of long poems sometimes sectioned always with a prosodic mastery (i take that note from Halpern) and uses boundless affect and exuberent flânerie to construct anthemic songs for democracy, a specifically American perspective

for example.

I get the Stein thing because Modernism as a turning point is truly significant but the civil war shouldn’t be discounted in terms of american historical narrative nor should the contributions/respective legacies of WW and Emily D in that tumultuous but singular context….consider that stein,too, is in the transnational context of modernism and hosts an global circuit of artists engaged across media, less isolated to a specifically american (or strictly text/language based) characterization or moment or experience

I don’t think E.D. really works in this situation because it isn’t until the ’80s when the manuscript edition comes out that people are really exposed to the radical stuff she’s doing in her poetic form. Before then, her poems had been scrubbed by editors to fit the tastes and poetics of the time of the editors. She also didn’t send her poems for publication and shared them pretty exclusively with non-artist or non-poets. As a figure she’s a good historic touchstone (as seen with Howe) but it doesn’t seem fitting to call her avant garde.

The metrical things you point out in Whitman are interesting innovations in form and content, but I wouldn’t really think of them as particularly avant garde. Shakespeare and Milton wrote in blank verse, and Blake along with other Romantics used looser metrical restrain, esp. in long pieces where maintaining a strict metrical pattern would be difficult and risk monotony. The fact that Whitman is so influential and seminal in American poetry also doesn’t necessarily make him a figure of the avant garde. The way the narrative seems to go, American poetry before WW was more strictly derivative of English literature and that WW went a long way in establishing a quintessentially American style of verse. That’s important to the history of American poetry, but that also kind of precludes him from being a figure of the avant garde. His verse is mainstream American verse: before that there was no American verse (this isn’t strictly true but is true in the sense that WW is displayed as a foundational figure in the history of American verse).

I’m not trying to discount the civil war period and the writers there abouts in their role in shaping the American historical narrative, but if we see the civil war as a watershed moment in American history that transform it from a collection of states to a single national entity, then WW’s legacy couldn’t really be as an avant garde figure. It’s important to recognize, too, that that usage of avant garde doesn’t come until the turn of the century.

"So lets recap what’s been discussed so far: games, with the birth of the modern period, achieve..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:43 -0400

“So lets recap what’s been discussed so far: games, with the birth of the modern period, achieve direct, actionable linkages to the production of truth, which also coincides with the rise of liberalistic practices of which capitalism is a part. As capital facilitates the mass production of games, themselves cultural artifacts, these forms of entertainment that were previously limited to the shared ‘public’ sphere become absorbed and encapsulated in ‘private’ spheres by the rise of a new type of cultural actor; the gamer. The gamer, in turn, sees in games a way to cultivate a utility and beauty, but only if the the uncultivated others, located in the ‘public’ sphere of activity, can be successfully distinguished from the die Wissenden (gamers). This is facilitated by a creation of the ‘private’ garden of games, of which gamers hold court and vehemently protect their domains from the intrusion of the public in various forms, be they claims of sexism, transphobia, or any number of other issues of which constitutes the concerns of the ‘public’ sphere.”

- Jeremy Antley - Games, Truth and the Defense of the Private

Jeremy wrote a really great response to my post last week about Andre Gorz, games as private gardens and cottages. I’m also really flattered because he said I’m really smart and that’s just swell.

(via dropouthangoutspaceout)

aticklefuck: s… sorry

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:57:54 -0400

aticklefuck:

s… sorry

robyewest: hamburgerjack: damn that’s cold LMFAO

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:18 -0400

robyewest:

hamburgerjack:

damn that’s cold

LMFAO

Discover Games: Survey Question: What makes you buy a game?

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:25:00 -0400

Discover Games: Survey Question: What makes you buy a game?:

discovergames:

Just for my own curiosity (and perhaps to start a little conversation), I was wondering what makes you guys and gals buy a game. Is it name recognition (be it franchise, character or developer)? Is it genre (maybe you love 2D brawlers or RTSes)? Is it a particular art style (cel shading,…

The first factor for me is almost always price: I feel so weird spending more than $15 or $20 dollars on a game, and that weird feeling sometimes lingers at the $5 and $10 range. I’ll tend to skip out on a game I might be interested in for a long while before buying and playing it. Buying a game at full price actually makes me feel physically ill, and buying a game that I’m uncertain about whether I’ll enjoy it or not will also make me feel sick when I start playing it. Unless a game demonstrates pretty early on that it has a pleasurable experience for me (either pleasurable in the sense of fun or pleasurable in the sense of Deep Thinking™), I’ll feel like a chump. If it weren’t for Steam sales I wouldn’t have played nearly as many games in the past few years as I have.

Another factor that keeps coming up lately is a matter of system specs. Since my laptop has an integrated graphics card from 2011, it won’t play games that use the current top-end graphics. This has bummed me out a little recently because of games like Strike Suit Zero and Blade Symphony that look like games I would be interested in at a decent price point but that I wouldn’t be able to run on my laptop (which is where I do most of my game playing). Although this has had the added benefit of making me look back at older games or games that don’t prioritize up-to-date graphics in their designs.

I’m a really emotional purchaser, I think. Much of what gets me to buy a game is based on my mood at the time and how the games I see for sale links up to a desire or an interest I have at the moment. For instance, when I was watching a lot Star Trek: DS9 earlier this year, I had this feeling of wanting to play something that would put me in space as an actor in some serious political or military drama. I saw Endless Space was on sale on Steam so I picked it up and really enjoyed playing it. It had a lot of things going for it mechanically and aesthetically that I dug, but the biggest reason why I bought it was because I had this desire and it seemed to do some interesting things with it.

I’m a sucker for pixel art and midi synth music, so I’m more likely to check out a game that uses these elements for their own sake rather than capitalizing on a sense of nostalgia (I’m getting really tired of games advertising their games as throwbacks or tributes to these styles, but that’s all just PR anyway). Games that hook up to my critical or poetic interests (I’m looking at you, Proteus) I’ll feel better buying, and when people start to do critical work I like on a game I haven’t played I’ll buy it, especially if I get to be contrarian about it (Don’t think I don’t see you, Dear Esther). Otherwise, I don’t usually buy games that are new.

ventla: Ventla - With No...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:18:04 -0400

ventla:

Ventla - With No Compass

http://www.mediafire.com/?epkixlnuc9mkb3b

ugh, move on: rumirumirumirumi replied to your post: You Can (Not) Advance BEAST...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:45:37 -0400

ugh, move on: rumirumirumirumi replied to your post: You Can (Not) Advance BEAST...:

adornoble:

rumirumirumirumi replied to your post: You Can (Not) Advance BEAST MODE or You Can (Not) Redo BEAST MODE?

I really like the redesign on Unit 02, but that movie is so fast-paced you dont really see it for very long in any particular image.

It’s the same with all the Evangelions in the movie, though, and I think it’s important because it’s emphasizing speed and movement more than anything else (and so harmonizing with the music stuff Kaworu says)

as a text I think Rebuild 3 ties itself together most neatly of all the Rebuilds

We’ll have to agree to disagree here, I think. That first movie did a really good job of condensing the early part of the show and establishing and building on themes. It’s the only one I could think of as a stand-alone story.

I’ll have to watch 3.33 again because it is very quick, but I’m not really convinced of this. To be sure it gets me very excited as a fan of the whole series, with all these strange new inflections to the characters and actions (things you want in new Eva material), but I’m having a hard time seeing a unity to it beyond how the pacing just changes how action takes place (and not necessarily what action takes place).

@bdreid-gaming

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:28:00 -0400

First, I don’t know where you get this theme of “zero-sum thinking.” Would you be willing to elaborate on this? Because I don’t think people who work with twine are working a zero-sum game. The value that people take from twine games isn’t a value that comes at the expense of other experiences: learning someone else’s perspective, coming into contact with their craft, enjoying and engaging with their language, and having the opportunity to be enmeshed in their utopian visions does a double-whammy of both generating more desire for such experiences and (because of the very simple platform) promoting the creation of more twine. This is antithetical to zero-sum thinking.

You may want to think about the art you make and consider to what extent it engages with violence. Because language is a powerful source of violence, and just because your poems don’t blow up cars or break windows doesn’t mean they don’t enact violence, whether on the reader or on the writer. There are writers who I think are really active about undermining language’s propensity for violence, and I really admire them for that, but I don’t necessarily see them building communities or enacting utopian visions either, and I don’t see your work making those kinds of non-violent gestures.

That’s not a personal indictment of you, but it speaks more to the point of seeing art as violence: so much violence is already being perpetrated in overt and covert ways that it often takes powerful countervailing forces to disrupt a pattern of violence. The fact that the countervailing force is coming in the form of art (instead of, you know, militarized violence) is what opens violence up to conversation in a way that you assume is a closing off of communication. When you say “this feels premature — to say that violence-in-art is the right mindset for the problem at hand,” it might be because you’re thinking of a different set of problems as someone else. Like, it’s not what kind of art is in and what kind of art is out, but like what world do we live and how do we make it better.

I think you’re really overstating this “us vs them” case. I still play Super Metroid. I want to play TF2 with you. It isn’t even a matter of factions but a matter of material and aesthetic practices, some of which perform as well as represent an alienating regime in game design and others of which perform as well as represent a different model.

it is not enough to say we can replace this nightmare reality with beautiful art–we must consciously ensure the violence of our art

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:03 -0400

porpentine:

twine succeeded precisely because of its violence–because it was suited to guerilla warfare–a weapon for underdogs

replicating, breeding, virulent–cheap pipebombs and tin can landmines

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:33:34 -0400

randomstuff134:

sodamnrelatable:

take a moment to realize you have never seen your face in person, just reflections and pictures

some scientists agree that if you saw a clone of yourself, you wouldn’t recognise it as you, because our idea of what we look like is so different from what we actually look like

The body of Phelps.

Nobody Makes Awesome Arcade Machines Anymore. But These Guys Did.

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:15:46 -0400

Nobody Makes Awesome Arcade Machines Anymore. But These Guys Did.:

Whether it’s a PC monitor or a smartphone display, indie game-makers tend to thrive on smaller screens. But when Josh DeBonis and Nik Mikros worked up the idea for their co-operative strategy/platformer hybrid Killer Queen, they went really big. So big they had to make their own unique stand-up machine for it. But, don’t worry: you don’t need quarters.

Watch the video and see if you can spot the Cole Sprouse.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 19:47:42 -0400

satanic2chainz: gatsbywasacommiee: satanic2chainz: rumirumirumirumi: maka-baka: “I love...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:31:17 -0400

satanic2chainz:

gatsbywasacommiee:

satanic2chainz:

rumirumirumirumi:

maka-baka:

“I love Pokemon”

“But only the first 151 because the rest are dumb”

Scizor everyday, all the time.

lol @ 4x weakness to fire doe

how you going to make fun of the 4x weakness like that almost every dragon in the game gets one shotted by a snowball and they still fuck everything up. tyranitar has a 4x weak to fighting but its still poke godzilla

because dragons are useful

scizor isn’t

Choice Band + U-Turn is a high-power combo that automatically switches him out. And his move set as an attack sweeper is really good.

maka-baka: “I love Pokemon” “But only the first 151 because the rest are dumb” Scizor everyday,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:15:00 -0400

maka-baka:

“I love Pokemon”

“But only the first 151 because the rest are dumb”

Scizor everyday, all the time.

nevver: Birds and Dinosaurs I’m pretty sure humans are...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:20:43 -0400

nevver:

Birds and Dinosaurs

I’m pretty sure humans are also dinosaurs. Still checking though.

indiestatik: Snake, Cloud, Dante, Link and Ramza Walk Into A...

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:49:38 -0400

indiestatik:

Snake, Cloud, Dante, Link and Ramza Walk Into A Bar – FFT: Journey Of The Five