the creators quitting/being fired happened in late 2014 and it was indeed due to the site supporting gamergate. one of the site's owners published an article pretending to be an unbiased look at what game developers thought of gamergate, but he had solicited the opinions from a toxic 4chan board and got predictable results.
btw, yahtzee said a few vague things about being against censorship but never addressed gamergate directly.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 28 October 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/3kxed3/the-ambitious-future-of-dead-cells-is-ditching-co-ops-for-capitalism
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, October 28, 2019 6:10 AM
I remember him saying something, either in a video or column. Something silly about him not seeing how sexism effected the creation of games (the gaming community itself has always been the much bigger problem), but mostly it seemed like he just didn't want to get involved in the discussion.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 November 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4aggzm/civilization-and-strategy-games-progress-delusion
sorry 4 vice but this explores some thoughts of value
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
ooh this looks good, been thinking about this since that unfortunate jimmy maher series totally failed to interrogate any of these concepts. also every holiday i join my family's board game mania for a dozen or so titles and as the years go by am more and more startled by the unquestioned ubiquity of european-colonialist-themed games that abstract away violence, slavery, exploitation of all kinds... wonder if that's being debated in some corners of that scene.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
i've definitely been thinking for a long time about the normalization of Whig History in 4X games, and gameplay mechanics only gets you so far as an excuse
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Very good article, thank you for sharing NV
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
the linked le guin piece is a cracking read too.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
the last time i played diplomacy, i tried to convince as many countries to a ceasefire and to unite in defense against aggressors. i didnt get much support.
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
"then whats the point of the game?" thats for you and your clergy, therapist, or close friends to discuss, asshole.
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
Need to come up with a game called Nomadology now
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
mb it sounds like you need to do a better job of defining these aggressors. Russians or Islamists for example. Maybe Chinese tech giants.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.themanequest.com/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
― beard papa, Thursday, 16 January 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
The ILG equivalent of a white canvas painting or 4'33"?
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Thursday, 16 January 2020 04:09 (four years ago) link
I tried to paste a link from my phone and forgot to stick text between the url tags. I can't even remember what the article was.
― beard papa, Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/15/21067001/gamestop-earnings-revenue-death-retail
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
presented as yet unread:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/21/21070333/life-is-strange-2-episode-5-border-wall-interview-immigration-michel-koch-raoul-barbetCould've used a little more editing but overall a good read.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
Woah the New Yorker Metal Gear thing was riveting
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
yeah, i read after posting and yikes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 January 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/02/05/rockstar-co-founder-and-head-writer-dan-houser-is-leaving/
Should be a standard press release-type deal about Dan Houser leaving Rockstar, but the writer couldn't resist snark, which I appreciated, especially that comment about Heat.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/23/who-made-fy_iceworld-a-forensic-investigation/
I'm not even a fan of Counter-Strike, but for reason found this article fascinating.
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 April 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
podcast, not reading, but The Life and Times of Video Games is fun listening for digging in deep on small things - the "Boss Button," color cycling in pixel art, the birth of digitized samples, etc.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 12 June 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
tyvm!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 June 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Polygon has been doing similar things - really enjoyed this recent video on the evolution of video game babble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYZMWkmXX3k√
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 15 June 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
i enjoyed this on delay and roll back mechanism in online fighting games
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
good read, thx Fizzles
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
https://acoup.blog/2019/11/22/collections-why-are-there-no-empires-in-age-of-empires/
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
Pretty good unless you know all this alreadyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiwn8iXqOI
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:34 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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
https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/gamer-disgusted-to-discover-they-just-watched-nick-robinson-video/
― Evan, Friday, 4 December 2020 04:27 (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
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/shigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-create-a-kinder-world
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 December 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
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
― 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 gazumpspotted 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
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