In that spirit, let me say that I emailed my “Crash of 2008 Concierge Physician” (doctor friend) about whether I should be concerned about entering Day 15 of swine flu symptoms. I’ve still got a sore throat and cough. His response: “I see something similar to asthma on frequent basis after a viral upper airway disease which gives a bit of wheezing and cough for several weeks- can be treated with steroids if symptoms are bad. Will stop on its own eventually (all bleeding stops eventually as well due to clotting or death).”
Remember how Sega won the console wars with their clever negative ad campaigns? Oh, right.
FUCK THE CLOUD, BEFORE THE CLOUD FUCKS YOU.
Description: Philosophical First Person Single Player Exploration Puzzle Art Game? Watch the trailer. It’s hard to explain.
RunMan: Race Around the World Release Trailer (via TomSennett)
They quickly blew past boundaries they didn’t even know they had. The art, the science, the publicity overshadowed the question of “should I be sharing this?” And in both cases, this realization that HOLY CRAP, I AM TOTALLY OUT THERE came with a near catastrophic personality episode. The stories of people like Joshua Harris are important to study, as more and more of us are now living in the surveillance state that he imagined in his art.
To them, game environments are not containers for gameplay, but rather are the reason for gameplay. By only affording the player navigation controls, the player’s mind is free to embark on a journey of induction and introspection. In their own words, Fatale “offers an experimental play experience that stimulates the imagination and encourages multiple interpretations and personal associations.” Tale of Tales are not alone in creating games for this purpose. Games that encourage observation and consideration of their environments can be said to form an art movement that I am referring to as the observational immersionist style.
— Tale of Tales have done it again: The Observational Immersionist Style
Consider this remark, for example: “Nothing in this agreement precludes any other company or organization from pursuing their own similar effort.” Thanks to quirks in civil litigation and class-action law, Google has lucked into being able to negotiate royalties with every single author and copyright holder on the planet. No one else will be remotely able to do the same thing. Before they can scan any book printed after 1923, they’ll have to find the copyright holder and ask nicely. Characterizing this as just a walk in the park can’t be seen as anyone other than a deliberate attempt to sucker the public into letting Google have a monopoly on millions of digitally archived books.
We just make the system and make sure it works. Then we check every object and say, “Oh, does it work?” We have no idea. If you freeze your airplane, take it back in time on a time machine, put an old man on it, come back, and set it on fire, what’s going to happen? I don’t know. You can’t test that. How do you test that? It’s impossible.
— Gamasutra - Features - Fountain of Scribbles: 5th Cell’s Jeremiah Slaczka Speaks
Where should tumblr posts be on trenchant.org?
They used to be on the side of trenchant.org and before that they were in the main section and now they’re back in the main section and I know that nobody cares but I’m letting people answer this ANYWAY as an experiment. ALSO I’M DOING THIS POOL SIDE FROM HAWAII OH HEY LOOK I CAN SEE THE OCEAN.
