http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7793059/john-burgeson-ibm-computer-start-baseball-video-games
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
nice story!
i like this one too, even if it's a bit bloggy:
http://insertcredit.com/2012/04/09/playing-to-win-at-life/
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
more worth seeing than reading but:http://www.campbellwhyte.com/8-bit-dreams/8-bit-requim-for-a-dreams/he's selling originals for fifty bucks, i'm tempted by a few of thesehttp://www.etsy.com/listing/79423771/adventures-of-lolo-original-nes?ref=v1_other_2
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
some of those are pretty neat. i would certainly not pay money for them
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
i suppose i wouldn't either but i'd entertain the idea
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
i guess what i'm saying is, don't do it man :P
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
heh, okay
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
i often feel the past couple years have been a futile waste of time but then i read a sentence like "i spent a year and a half playing starcraft 2" and momentarily feel better about myself
― thomp, Thursday, 12 April 2012 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
I bet you guys are real excited to read another long feature about JBlow, the game industry's "most cerebral developer":
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/the-most-dangerous-gamer/8928/
― polyphonic, Thursday, 12 April 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
stopped here:
“It just drives home how fictional money is,” Blow said, squinting against the unseasonably bright December sun. “One day I’m looking at my bank account and there’s not much money, and the next day there’s a large number in there and I’m rich. In both cases, it’s a fictional number on the computer screen, and the only reason that I’m rich is because somebody typed a number into my bank account.” For the world’s most existentially obsessed game developer, coming into seven figures just provided another opportunity to ponder the nature of meaning in the universe.
jesus christ STFU
― original bgm, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
tell you what, let me hold six of those figures and then call me back about existential meaning
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
nothing jblow says there is as bad as whoever wrote it
― thomp, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Friday, 13 April 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the bit where he tries to make out that games were wall-to-wall Call of Duty and nothing else before Braid came along is the worst.
― if, Friday, 13 April 2012 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
What I got from that article is that one of the philosophical changes made by fictional money is that it will cause some journalists to cast you as the next Howard Roark rather than say "Dude has autism-spectum disorder".
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 14 April 2012 07:40 (twelve years ago) link
the atlantic's such a good magazine, why would they have published this laughable profile?
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Saturday, 14 April 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
this bugged me the most but it's my problem really
This means, somewhat incredibly, that Blow doesn’t believe in even trying to communicate a game’s central message in words; the medium itself, he argues, is the message.
YOU DON'T SAY
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder what the odds are that the profiler thought "the medium is the message" was an original blow nugget
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
jotted it down in excitement w/ a little arrow pointing to it: "somewhat incredible!"
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
although since most professional editors get paid by the inserted adverb (bonus pay if what it's modifying is already an adverb) i'd say chances are good the first draft called that insight straight-up incredible
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
although since most professional editors get paid by the inserted adverb
lol i wish. in fact, reading this i just thought if i'd been editing it, i'd have given up halfway through as a bad job. such a credulous interviewer, such a douchebag interviewee, such a bad combination. and i enjoyed Braid, kinda.
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Saturday, 14 April 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol at little arrow saying "somewhat incredible"
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 April 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
not even gonna read that sigh
― Nhex, Saturday, 14 April 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
i like how the guy's next game is myst.
― adam, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
what an asshole/also what a terrible article/also like the worst issue of the atlantic i've ever read--did yall see the piece about how qaddafi's son was sad when his dad died and the reader is supposed to give a shit? or the kanye thing? tho the br meyers takedown of chad harbach was good.
― adam, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
His face, bounded by a closely cropped widow’s peak on top and a clenched jaw on the bottom
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Friendship with Blow requires patience for his rigid, often puzzling personal codes. He enjoys talking, but abhors idle conversation and is intensely private.
what a deep and paradoxical fellow!
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
fuck braid
― goole, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
coming close to that opinion without ever actually having played it.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
nah, braid was cool. soulja boy nailed it.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
braid was gorgeous and inventive and fun but of course every think piece about how paradigm-shifting it was concentrates on the parts before each level where you read some coy prose about being a sad boy, because obviously that's where the Art is
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
nah fuck braid, any game that relies that much on hushed artifice and a busted prince of persia gameplay mechanic is just as phony and overblown as modern warfare 3 but way less honest.
― adam, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
i don't even like braid that much but whaaaa?
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
braid is great, jblow sucks
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
i always walked past the books without reading them
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
"he enjoys talking, but abhors listening"
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
"he enjoys blazers, but abhors long pants"
― Lamp, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
ignore the overblown plot and braid is a very sweet game; preferred limbo where shit was less spelled out if more tim burtony
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
interview made me want to replay infocom's trinity tho, maybe i could get somewhere in it now that i'm not 11
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
― adam, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:21 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol first thing i thought when i read about it
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Braid until it got too hard for me (about 10 minutes in as I am totally uncoordinated) but that article seriously made me regret giving him any of his giant pile of money which he feels such ostentatious indifference towards
(didn't buy it full price, but then I bought it on its own and bought some bundle with it in, so I guess I gave him money twice)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
At some point, Steam holiday sales will deliver them all to me anyway
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Thursday, 19 April 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2012/04/dissident-designer.html
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
blow currently responsible for reinventing: myst, marshall mcluhan, sturgeon's law, the wheel...
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
wish Michael Abbott wrote more often
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
since there isn't a "rolling thread of furniture worth buying on videogames"
http://www.gizmag.com/nintendo-controller-coffee-table/22224/
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 20 April 2012 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
ha, and it actually works!
http://images.gizmag.com/inline/nes-table-3.jpg
although admittedly, that looks like the kind of activity that you hype up all day but only end up doing for about 3 minutes.
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Friday, 20 April 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
the giganto tv and controller/table compared to the tiny NES makes it look like Giant world on SMB3.
http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
― thomp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that was brilliant and now I wanna work for valve
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link