rolling thread of stuff worth reading on videogames

man, nothin on rps this sunday worth reading at all. fu british games journalism

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Sunday, 11 March 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

some likeminded bros of mine have started some pretty cool gaming blogs

crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com
gamefeel.tumblr.com/
pldevelopment.blogspot.com
gamergoku.blogspot.com
shutupandgame.blogspot.com
finalbrutalweapon.blogspot.com

they're mostly coming from anti-narratologist POVs

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 12 March 2012 00:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

looking forward to exploring that list

― God: Huummm (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 March 2012 04:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

who are these ppl and why didn't they start one nonbuttugly blog

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Monday, 12 March 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

why do that when you can start an ironic webring

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 12 March 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2012/03/bioware-day-one-dlc-developed.html

i guess this is an example of 'critical code studies' that tells us something we couldn't know without looking at the code

xpost do they actually have little webring .gifs and stuff that i missed bcz they totally should

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Monday, 12 March 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

if 'critical code studies' consists of uncovering whether companies are lying about dlc ripping you off or not, i'm not interested in the field.

― Mordy, Monday, 12 March 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

like, this isn't critical code studies. it's consumer watchdogism bolstered by code analysis.

― Mordy, Monday, 12 March 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm sorry i just thought it would be a thing to say that would make me sound clever

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Monday, 12 March 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

they're mostly coming from anti-narratologist POVs

huh

― Lamp, Monday, 12 March 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

aka privileging gamism + ludic components over story/narrative (if i understand it correctly)

― Mordy, Monday, 12 March 2012 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

i should start a blog, about videogames

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Monday, 12 March 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha tim rogers first game is out

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Monday, 12 March 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have it. It's kind of fun but I got bored of it pretty fast.

― polyphonic, Monday, 12 March 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

i would like to blog about video games however i am terrible at updating blogs bc i lose interest and never update it.

i would like to blog about video games on someone else's blog. i think this would be ideal.

― Mordy, Monday, 12 March 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah blogs require too much dedication for me (ie. a nonzero amount). i'll stick to postin'

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

those dudes seem to be at abt the same level of discourse as ILG, they should post here instead, that would require the less effort of not typing a different address in my web browser

― bosomy English rose (thomp), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

god, chrome has the eight most frequently visited sites and i only even use about five of those, what happened to the internet

― bosomy English rose (thomp), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol i wouldnt inflict ILG on them. they all post on another board im on, u should join it instead

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

cruel!

― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol ade. what is this other forum?

― bosomy English rose (thomp), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/03/13/bioware-plays-the-gay-card/

― s.clover, Thursday, 15 March 2012 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

one of the reasons i love tom chick

― Mordy, Thursday, 15 March 2012 00:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

g1

― Nhex, Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol ade. what is this other forum?

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― bosomy English rose (thomp), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:14 (2 days ago)

― bamcquern, Thursday, 15 March 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

hope this hasn't already been posted: http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/

― s.clover, Saturday, 17 March 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

ah, nhex posted it back in november. still a great read.

― s.clover, Saturday, 17 March 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/03/24/the-official-journey-review-faq/

my fave part: had no idea Chick was a Harvard divinity student who learned Hebrew

― Mordy, Sunday, 25 March 2012 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

ha for a mo I thought you meant Jack Chick lol

― Large Sack (Empty) (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

well, he does clarify that in the article

― thomp, Sunday, 25 March 2012 09:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7793059/john-burgeson-ibm-computer-start-baseball-video-games

― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

nice story!

i like this one too, even if it's a bit bloggy:

http://insertcredit.com/2012/04/09/playing-to-win-at-life/

― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

more worth seeing than reading but:
http://www.campbellwhyte.com/8-bit-dreams/8-bit-requim-for-a-dreams/
he's selling originals for fifty bucks, i'm tempted by a few of these
http://www.etsy.com/listing/79423771/adventures-of-lolo-original-nes?ref=v1_other_2

― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

some of those are pretty neat. i would certainly not pay money for them

― Nhex, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

i suppose i wouldn't either but i'd entertain the idea

― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

i guess what i'm saying is, don't do it man :P

― Nhex, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

heh, okay

― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

i often feel the past couple years have been a futile waste of time but then i read a sentence like "i spent a year and a half playing starcraft 2" and momentarily feel better about myself

― thomp, Thursday, 12 April 2012 07:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

I bet you guys are real excited to read another long feature about JBlow, the game industry's "most cerebral developer":

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/the-most-dangerous-gamer/8928/

― polyphonic, Thursday, 12 April 2012 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

stopped here:

“It just drives home how fictional money is,” Blow said, squinting against the unseasonably bright December sun. “One day I’m looking at my bank account and there’s not much money, and the next day there’s a large number in there and I’m rich. In both cases, it’s a fictional number on the computer screen, and the only reason that I’m rich is because somebody typed a number into my bank account.” For the world’s most existentially obsessed game developer, coming into seven figures just provided another opportunity to ponder the nature of meaning in the universe.

jesus christ STFU

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

tell you what, let me hold six of those figures and then call me back about existential meaning

― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

nothing jblow says there is as bad as whoever wrote it

― thomp, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^^^^^^^^

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Friday, 13 April 2012 06:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, the bit where he tries to make out that games were wall-to-wall Call of Duty and nothing else before Braid came along is the worst.

― if, Friday, 13 April 2012 07:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

What I got from that article is that one of the philosophical changes made by fictional money is that it will cause some journalists to cast you as the next Howard Roark rather than say "Dude has autism-spectum disorder".

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 14 April 2012 07:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

the atlantic's such a good magazine, why would they have published this laughable profile?

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Saturday, 14 April 2012 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

this bugged me the most but it's my problem really

This means, somewhat incredibly, that Blow doesn’t believe in even trying to communicate a game’s central message in words; the medium itself, he argues, is the message.

YOU DON'T SAY

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

i wonder what the odds are that the profiler thought "the medium is the message" was an original blow nugget

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

jotted it down in excitement w/ a little arrow pointing to it: "somewhat incredible!"

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

although since most professional editors get paid by the inserted adverb (bonus pay if what it's modifying is already an adverb) i'd say chances are good the first draft called that insight straight-up incredible

― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink