the one thing that sort of tips me in favor of the photo guy was that theyhad gone to the trouble of clearing the music, which was certainly transformedmuch more than the photo was.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 June 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
No nah, all did they were cover versions, which you don't even need a real license for (i.e. you don't need permission from the song owners). Sure you technically need get a mechanical license, but as long as you send checks at the compulsory rate you're pretty much in the clear.
― Nhex, Friday, 24 June 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
what i mean is the fact that they even bothered to get a mechanical license (though it seems from his post like they may have even secured further permission of some sort), but not for the cover photo, makes me more sympathetic to the photo guy. that, plus their charging of money for it, but I'm not sure what to think about that part. I doubt The Advantage is paying royalties to DuckTales composer/programmer #3, or whomever, and I'm cool with that.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 June 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Love reading Sulla's games:http://garath.net/Sullla/civ4MP.html
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 25 June 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason?page=1
the tale of an acclaimed iPhone game and how it's been hogtied by the actions of an unconscionable douchelord
Only just got round to reading this one. Holy shit.
I'm sure this guy Langdell has always been a total chancer. The Edge's catalogue was full of games that were either mediocre or just plain awful(the screenshots in that article speak for themselves), and clearly most were rushed out to make a quick buck with little regard to quality control. The worst was probably Warlock, a game so lousy it had to be given away free in early Atari ST bundles.
Also I was wondering if Langdell had ever tried to sue Edge Magazine, but it turns out he was recently sued by them, for using their logo without permission. Haha.
― Pheeel, Sunday, 26 June 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I only knew his tutorials before now but wow -- reading these games are really amazing. In the middle of reading RBPB2.
― Mordy, Sunday, 26 June 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
love this article.http://insertcredit.com/2011/07/11/the-world-warrior/
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link
+1
― ledge, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
+2
― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
stuff worth hearing about videogames?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uKl3xeBVY4
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 August 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pastebin.com/W7fiktcb
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i new you would be the one who posted that
― Lamp, Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=1228
Some mainstream games for you ilg people who pay more than $15 for games.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 18 August 2011 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/5829606/ive-played-deus-ex-she-hasnt-now-were-playing-it-together
― thomp, Thursday, 18 August 2011 09:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/9087-Extra-Punctuation-Why-No-Couples-in-Games
― little mushroom person (abanana), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/killscreen/17-everybodys-doing-it-how-playing-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-as-a-30-year-old-reveals-its-magical-adolescence-of/
pretty rmde @ the repeated sex bit tho
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 September 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
pitchfork does games now?
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 5 September 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
bissell now in new yorker o_O
― Mordy, Monday, 5 September 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god
― Frogbs (Pray Like Aretha Franklin (in Whiteface)) (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 September 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Shadow of the Colossus is the Wilco of video games tbf
lol
― matte prick (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Bioshock would fit the bill better.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 5 September 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Bioshock is the Kid A of video games.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 September 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
in short -- do not want
― Nhex, Monday, 5 September 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
more than a little wankery, but it had its moments i thought.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 September 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://killscreendaily.com/
^ they're just irregularly poaching a writer from killscreen btw--i dig killscreen
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 September 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/04/dont-quit-how-to-save-adventures-225/
yet another article about what's up with adventure games these days, but this one is actually good
― Nhex, Monday, 5 September 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, clever.http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/infinity-blade
― Nhex, Monday, 5 September 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"I insert the game card, gently, into the slot of my Aqua Blue system. As I walk over to a red chaise lounge the system slips out of my fumbling hands, falling onto the carpet. I flashback to my first kiss, in my parent’s garage—It gets betterthe more you do it, she told me—and with that in mind, I begin my quest."aaaaaand i stopped reading there
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 September 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna have to live through a lot more shitty games writing before the field matures... sigh
that said, maybe there's some kind of history to this sort of pap that i'm not getting, like cherished jazz reviews or some shit, i don't know
― Nhex, Monday, 5 September 2011 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the history of this particular pap is early p4k writing
― Mordy, Monday, 5 September 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
^
they even use the fonts pfork used to use
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 September 2011 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
not reading, but this is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPZbwDHz-0
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Thursday, 8 September 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
A+ would watch again
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 September 2011 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
The pastebin bit has somegood points
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
That was awesome, ZS
― polyphonic, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.joystickdivision.com/2011/09/videogames_are_awesome_because.php
(I am not Gus Mastrapa)
― GM, Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/everybodys-doing-it
― thomp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
the conclusion more belongs in a games o_O thread though, if there is one
― thomp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
haha we talked about that terrible piece in the p4k thread
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there was much o_Oing
well why in the hell were you talking about videogames or indeed anything in a pitchfork thread
― thomp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i think about 60% of that piece is pretty smart, anyway! it's just the rest of it is very much smdh or o_o or other territory better expressed by internet shorthand than by actual words
― thomp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
also talked abt it upthread
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i really cant see anything of value in that piece
i got sucked into the p4k thread bcuz they/we were talking about n+1
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
omg that last graf
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/leighalexander/status/113783739447902208
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Friday, September 9, 2011 1:14 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark
yeah, i consider it the final word on DNF
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm seriously so fucking sick of every 'serious' (seriously gay lol) games writer who has Important Things To Say About Zelda/Mario. i have more respect for paid IGN shills than these dipshits revisiting the same shiggy suckfest over and over
i dont think there's ever been a games journalist who had anything of value to say about games. 99% of the time actual devs are the only people worth listening to (most of them are morons too obv, but thats still where you find the real shit) - JE Sawyer's formspring is worth a thousand leigh alexanders
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link