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Pretty good unless you know all this already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiwn8iXqOI

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link

i knew most of that but it was well organized and presented!

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link

it's kind of like that mini-doc about the amen break, in that way

sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 12 July 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

listening rather than reading but... (it wasn't really fame-related lols)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nv36

"Playing With The Dead

Jordan Erica Webber explores how video games allow us to play with people after they have died."

(about the memorialisation of people in games)

koogs, Thursday, 29 October 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA

Nhex, Friday, 4 December 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link

that youtuber is a sex pest iirc if you care about such things

ciderpress, Friday, 4 December 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link

what? shit.

Nhex, Friday, 4 December 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link

I am honestly not sure what I think about The Hard Times having a gaming section.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link

Be funny if it was just about speed runs.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link

they're consistently funnier/more tuned in than the onion's gaming section

ciderpress, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link

at least based on the ones that make it to my Feeds i dont read it actively

ciderpress, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link

One of my best friends constantly texts me links from The Hard Times. I hate him for this.

Nhex, Friday, 4 December 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

LOL I opened that in Dark Mode and got a creepy negativ-Miyamoto surrounded by black clouds. Good interview. Miyamoto, for all his beatific demeanor, sounds like a guy it kinda sucks to work for.

american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Monday, 21 December 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link

couple of years old now, but i don’t *think* this piece on donkey kong high scores has been posted before?

Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 08:34 (three years ago) link

couple of years old now, but i don’t *think* this piece on donkey kong high scores has been posted before?

Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 08:35 (three years ago) link

it was posted fifty-nine minutes ago i think

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link

was going to make a joke to that effect and thought, no, no one will come in and gazump

spotted over the horizon urging his steed ever faster...

NV TO THE RESCUE

Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link

i can hear the Holy Grail music now

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

just for the gimmick: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/interactive/2021/can-you-pet-the-dog/

wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 19 February 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link

lol nice

Nhex, Friday, 19 February 2021 04:13 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Hooh, I remember perusing my local Egghead Software and Software Etc. and seeing these boxes all the time. Had no idea so many came from the same source. Owned the trapezoid boxes for Prince of Persia I and II. That Jetfighter II box definitely stood out (for the time, also a pretty good game iirc!) Lotta great stuff in this article, even baering the painfully '90s color aesthetic of some.

Nhex, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link

Ahoy has a great video on boxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLMbmAv0tg

Millsner, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 06:57 (three years ago) link

packaging article is fantastic. the only ones i actually remember are the more generic NES ones and Prince of Persia, but it brings back the era for sure. actually i wonder if the lack of major, still-celebrated titles in that list is revealing in some way.

SimCity one is good too! from the subhead i was expecting it to be more specifically about Forrester's models, but it's a good overview and there are promising links to other pieces. was it on this thread that someone shared the 2-part piece about users' problems with homelessness in a recent version of the game?

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link

was it on this thread that someone shared the 2-part piece about users' problems with homelessness in a recent version of the game?

i haven't read it, but is it this one?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/press-altf4-to-end-homelessness

for some reason, i have an are.na channel set up to collect things related to Sim City: https://www.are.na/zach-tbd/simcity--2

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link

nope, found it:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/is-simcity-homelessness-a-bug-or-a-feature

(via Trayce)

― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:28 PM bookmarkflaglink

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link

(short article but i guess my brain subbed in the expensive two-part book?)

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link

your brain remembered that the article is discussing a two-volume book:

You can read all of these proposed final solutions in Matteo Bittanti's How to Get Rid of Homelessness, "a 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called 'homeless scandal' that affected 2013's SimCity."

Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link

yeah, that!

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Haven't played tetris for 20+ years but thought this was a good watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE

I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 10:04 (three years ago) link

meant to post that in the 'are you any good at tetris' thread but might get a bigger audience here!

I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 10:16 (three years ago) link

lol wow amazing. "The method was first discovered by Cheezfish..."

Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:16 (three years ago) link

That's President Cheezfish to you.

Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link

love it

Nhex, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

This was fascinating and sent me down several rabbit holes: https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf

emil.y, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link

wow that is interesting

na (NA), Friday, 4 June 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link

several rabbit holes

you weren't kidding. great article

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link

Yeah, I had to stop myself from going overboard with searching the femme-fantasy 'discipline and punish' internet archive, not sure my browser history wants too much of that. It's a shame that so much of it wound up being retrogressive, I was really hoping for a feminist text adventure utopia story.

emil.y, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link

Fascinating article, love seeing weird bits of history unearthed like that. Anyone here alive/aware of this scene when they were around?

Nhex, Saturday, 5 June 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link

i used PAW a lot, there were a lot of PAW based games around at the time, most of them not very good. but the only one i recognise by name in the article was Very Big Cave Adventure.

koogs, Saturday, 5 June 2021 05:32 (three years ago) link

further down the rabbithole

https://i.imgur.com/TEOlI1Y.png

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Saturday, 5 June 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link

Whaaaaat?

emil.y, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link

lol

ciderpress, Sunday, 6 June 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link

what the

eisimpleir (crüt), Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link

Holy shit at that article, not just for its mystery and weirdness, but for suddenly flashing me back to the early '80s when I was in a gifted and talented program called LEEP, which stood for ... learning experience enrichment program? Something like that. And I recall it had a rudimentary computer lab where we could play text based games like Zork and something else about a haunted house which I don't think I've thought about ever since.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

It's a video, but this Dunkey essay on video game pricing makes some good points/observations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q

I appreciate the implicit acknowledgment that even the best, most classic video games eventually face some form of forced obsolescence. Also that value is such a weirdly subjective thing, and pricing today is almost arbitrary.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 August 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Aristasia has snuck up on me again. i've been learning japanese and watching some videos from a "virtual android sensei" named "cure dolly" (hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSvH9vH60Ig). once you get over the creepiness and bad production, there's actually some good info in there.

i was curious who she was and did some digging and found out that she was some mother-earth lesbian and i was like ok i'm 100% down with this now. i even described her to my partner as "like the woman from that spanking cult with the commodore 64 but without the spanking."

well it turns out that cure dolly is likely miss martindale

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Friday, 10 September 2021 03:02 (three years ago) link


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