Now that's something you don't often hear about Goldeneye. pic.twitter.com/WLMG4MnVv0— Kat Bailey (@The_Katbot) March 10, 2018
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
Miyamoto otm
― valorous wokelord (silby), Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
it is true that james bond kills at least 700 people in the course of a typical goldeneye playthrough
i made that stat up, but the number is high
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
that's a lot of handshaking. just impractical.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
if only you could talk to sean bean and famke janssen, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances... now that would be interesting
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
maybe he could just shake the hands of the doctors that just saved hundreds of lives and tell them to pass on his well wishes to victims
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 March 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
you know within 5 minutes of the patch coming out, someone would be repeatedly crouching behind sean bean's butt and triggering the handshake animation and over again
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 March 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
xxp, and I’ve said this before, the Book of Judges is totally a warhammer / RTS setting waiting to happen someone should also consider an Old Testament inspired MOBA at some point imo
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 March 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
good piece on the increasingly prophetic metal gear solid 2 in the era of cambridge analytica: https://www.gamesradar.com/how-metal-gear-solid-manipulated-its-players-warning-us-of-an-age-of-fake-news-cambridge-analytica-and-data-surveillance/
i've been meaning to replay mgs2 for a while, i really need to get around to it soon
― someone’s burgling my miscellanea (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
excellent piece
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Interesting fact: the IDGA is against unionization for its members. http://www.jetlaw.org/2018/03/24/unionization-within-the-video-game-industry-is-a-looming-threat/I wonder what the real underlying rationale is here, other than “the leadership of the IDGA are clearly on the take from the publishers” - and of course it probably is that simple, or worse, they’re just sissies
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link
This was good on the push for unions, GDC this year and the IDGA: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdv5e/after-destroying-lives-for-decades-gaming-is-finally-talking-unionization
― devvvine, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
tbf we're talking about an industry noted for the odd political maverick
― vermicious kid (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
Jen MacLean, IGCA’s executive editor, is worried unionization may improve working conditions, but may also have unintended consequences. While increasing game developer’s leverage, MacLean raised concerns of unions controlling the jobs developers take, the projects they work on, and potentially force companies to be understaffed. She also discussed union abuses in other industries, specifically the construction industry.
i mean i think it's pretty obvious the underlying rationale is def 'we are deathly afraid of the terrifying power of our capitalist overlords'
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:29 (six years ago) link
(also can we not call people 'sissies' pls)
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
I totally forgot the connotations my bad
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
Time to dust off the old craven poltroons
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
*lowers cudgel*
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
devvvine’s link is much better than mine btw, everyone should read the whole thing. I’m now curious about what a national union for developers in games might mean for developers, period.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
"MacLean raised concerns of unions controlling the jobs developers take, the projects they work on, and potentially force companies to be understaffed." lol this is classsssssic union-busting rhetoric, based around confusing people about what labor contracts actually look like. you negotiate over conditions of work, you don't magically become the owners and management of the company (sadly).
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
i know i'm violating the principle of the thread here, but man speaking as someone who's loved jimmy maher's writing up until now, this series he's doing on civilization is excruciating. he's been regurgitating fukuyama for months now. god, i hope this isn't a shark-jump.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
I’d buy an album titled Regurgitating Fukuyama
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
i googled "jimmy maher civilization" since i had no clue who he was, and the first thing that comes up is a post with a ludwig von mises quote at the top
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
oh, that's probably the post that prompted you to bump this, rushomancy! it does look excruciating. he was good in the past, i guess?
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Fukuyama is pre-regurgitated iirc
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
most of his writing is good, yeah. his series on tetris is pretty great.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
Had no idea Francis had written a book about Tetris, very interested in his lapsed neoconservative take
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.themillions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/570_AmisTop.jpg
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
otm. he's usually a solid in-depth historian of pre-web games/computing culture, but this series on Civ has been painful, a liberal amateur history of everything that has happened. Started just fine when he was on home ground - business and personalities at Microprose, the narrative of development - but just flat summarising of ideas over the last few articles.
― woof, Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
haha i've been trying to push back in the comments and i do appreciate him engaging with me but he ultimately concluded that we were talking past each other and that's kinda true because our premises/paradigms are soooooo different.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
he is unbelievably worth reading on video games though.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
in its worst moments, the civ series reminds me of precocious high school student essays on world history. huge armchair theories that explain everything, timeless correspondences where x always gives rise to y, economics/colonialism sidelined or inconsistently treated.... massive revenge of the grand narratives. he's so good on video games though. the best moments of the civ series still let that peek through, whenever he gets back to the actual game and tries to close-read the stories its mechanics are telling, he's on more solid ground. the first half of the most recent one on the game's economics is pretty good at doing a takedown of overly broad cross-time generalizations based on this game. maybe he's having second thoughts.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
The idea to show the ideological premises of something like Civilization is awesome, but the last posts it's been more about explaining what he himself thinks about the world that Civilization doesn't explicitly agree with. The one on Religion was when I got off.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
haha yeah I saw you there Dr C (thinking "hmmm is that the ilxor or another Dr Casino?"). He's so good natured, but it's a hard gap to cross.
― woof, Saturday, 12 May 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
yeah he's thoughtful and considerate and meticulous and thorough and usually has a lot to offer on any topic he addresses - but here he just doesn't seem to have anything to say that fukuyama didn't say already, which is a disappointment.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 12 May 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
the thing is that the series has gotten me to think a lot about that game! and the kinds of assumptions baked into all such games. like the idea that the tradeoff mechanic is between cash, productivity, science research, and "luxuries"... he chooses to interrogate different aspects of that but it's really striking that it's "luxuries" and not "infrastructure" or "essential social services" or whatever. something that's passed by me unexamined since age 10, playing hundreds of hours of that game, and now to my eye strikes me as a profoundly reaganite way of thinking about the thing, a bunch of unnecessary goodies that are just placating people. IRL people don't turn to civil unrest and overthrow the government because of a lack of "luxuries" so on its face the game's logic is goofy. so, y'know, this got me thinking about that.
idk eventually he'll be done with civ and back to, i hope, deep dives on all kinds of crazy old gaming software and hardware history. when he's working in his own field the armchair theorizing is nowhere to be seen - he has this close-grained attention to the interrelationships between business decisions, personalities, technological developments, game genres., etc., that's so fantastic. you can learn mountains from practically any random article on there.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
he is /unbelievably/ worth reading on video games though.
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah, he is great. Still great.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
You guys are fuckin’ nerrrrrrrrrdsI want Mordy’s take now
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/this-is-the-coolest-thing-ive-seen-in-vr-1826010054
interview with the creator of very cool psychedelic artsy VR
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 May 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
ugh Tim Rogers
― Nhex, Monday, 14 May 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
^
― bamcquern, Monday, 14 May 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
tim rogers will tear this board apart
― ciderpress, Monday, 14 May 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
I love Tim Rogers unreservedly and if he does actually publish a novel I will buy and read it
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
Also I think he is cuet
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
Xopher Wailord Barnett > Tim Rogers5/14/18 12:33pmI’m sick of seeing Tim Rogers’ pseudo-intellectual hipster face.
Tim Rogers > Xopher Wailord Barnett5/14/18 12:37pmyeah, me too
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
i like tim rogers a lot and can understand why someone wouldn't
post an interview w a female game designer, get 7 posts trying to out-dog the dude interviewer. :-/
did anyone watch this video and see the other games that this developer made? they look amazing. Paloma Dawkins makes these games of psychedelic worlds with hand drawn trippy line art animation. she is partially funded by the NFB of Canada, something i have always held in high esteem for producing so many great (and personally experimental) works of art like the work of Norman McLaren.
her work is very collaborative - they have designers and artists and musicians, a lot of them students just making things to make new work. as a former art student myself, it's always cool to see cool new stuff coming out of the art school community.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
the one about the universe full of hands sounds neat. it is her response to the election of 2016 and is intended to express a painful & emotional experience, with harsh sound design, a sensory-overload-driven overwhelming fps.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEu_9bKdKQk