i'm afraid Spector hasn't put his money where his mouth is for quite some time, but i never played Epic Mickey
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
anna anthropy's book is terrible, hamfisted, reductive. the fucked up thing is that i basically agree with her thesis but man the way she goes about advancing it is progressive self-defeating bullshit 101.
― adam, Saturday, 7 July 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
i guess i should have known from her blog but i was really hoping for a good thoughtful book on videogames and how they could be better.
― adam, Saturday, 7 July 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
/goes back to saints row 3, beats prostitute to death with giant purple cock, sips coffee, laments, considers
― adam, Saturday, 7 July 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
it's published by random house? hunh
― thomp, Saturday, 7 July 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
oh, never mind, it's seven stories press but on the random house website because they're the distributor
― thomp, Saturday, 7 July 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
that's disappointing to hear about anthropy's book; i still kinda wanna give it a shot, but i'm already inclined to fear what you're saying about it
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 July 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/BIGGEST-COLLECTION-EVER-22-SEGA-NINTENDO-PC-ENGINE-FULLSETS-FACTORY-SEALED-/300736846867?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid#ht_163613wt_931
― cozen, Monday, 9 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
my mouth is literally hanging open
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
uh that is crazy
― polyphonic, Monday, 9 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
egad
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
sold for 1.2 million dollars.holy shit in every way
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
the laserdiscs really make the package
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
man, some UPS guy is going to have a really bad day
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
isn't $1.2M still less than original retail value?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
also "Unfortunately, Shaq-Fu never was released in Japan" is a sentence i never expected to read.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder how much the lot is worth broken down by piece and based on previous ebay prices.
― Mordy, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Reminds me of when i was a kid and i dreamed about winning the lottery and buying every single videogame ever made. Only this is real!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
and you really would've had to have won the lottery to get it
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
That is insane
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Monday, July 9, 2012 4:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
$175 per game? i doubt it...
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
In the questions at the bottom, someone asked if it includes all the consoles, and he said 'yes', that it also includes consoles either brand new in packaging, or at least mint in box. Still doubt that rounds the average out to significantly less than $175/game though...
― CraigG, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
I was looking at your collection and I was really impressed until I saw you were missing the Time Gal spine card
lol @ this guy.
― JimD, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 08:12 (eleven years ago) link
how much were the games in japan? (plus adjust for inflation, import from japan, shipping etc...) i'm thinking this might actually be a bargain.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
yes, a bargain.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
pennies a day. practically pays for itself.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
you could probably flip it for $2M to some hollywood manchild.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Cruise has got plenty of time on his hands at the moment.
― second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Couldn't you argue that the men and women who make Battlefield and Modern Combat and Call of Duty are making the world a demonstrably worse place? I think you could. Sometimes I wonder how they sleep at night. Sometimes, when I can't sleep at night, I play Call of Duty.
Tom Bissell piece on shooters & Spec Ops: The Line, worth reading...http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8157257/line-explores-reasons-why-play-shooter-games
― JCL, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
g1
― Nhex, Friday, 13 July 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
castlevania bloodlinesbutthole brothers: the openinga boy and his abortiongurglefest 9: browngurglesimple beans: fancy kitten hugsChocoholic breastmilkFloor club for menEpic FlowerThe Cavalcades of Sir Rudelman HorcrotchJust Some DudeFeather Tickle: Tickle the PickleUpside-Down Hedgehog VengeanceKlondike Explorer: Return of NumbnessPatriarch of Tushybutt KingdomCollect Stamp: The Stamp Collection Game for Collectors of Stamps and Stamp-like Collector's itemsFrantic ReadingLeisure Suit Larry 14: Sit at Home and Read a BookPorthole: The PortholeningPractice Makes PerfetcSponge: The Official Game of the MovieThirsty: The Search for WaterGalileo's TuxedoAmputee BattleBurning Sensation 12Progress Bar 3: 75%Slather (From the makers of Butter Lips)Sondlifect: The Word that Means NothingInternet Cat UploadMagic is Real: The Parent Convincing GameHeadband: The GameGo Outside And DIEDashboard SmashSmashBoardExcessively Hungry HippopotamiCalifornia TexasThe Blair Science ProjectCords vs. WiresCarrot Top's Fitness ProgramPhlegm Produce 2Babysitter BlastoffTrachea 800A Gentleman and a BentlemanDong SludgeWatermelon PregnancyNostrilfist 2: Nostrilfist's RevengeVarious Indian CuisinesSuper Mario BrothelsPaper Cut: DecapitationHailstorm: The Basement's AdventureSusan Goes to LiverpoolBoner JavelinHappy: The Shitty DwarfLoose Power CordHands Aren't FeetThe Man Who Killed Larry The Cable Guy (and his Subsequent Rise to Fame)Tooth in the Wrong PlaceWatching Mr. Belvedere: An Enthusiast's JourneyFlashing PicturesSalad Bowl SlipperooniFetus MouthMarvel vs. A Wooden LegGeneral Custard: A Pudding's StoryThe Pair of PlegicsDivorce BrigadeBridge Over MeatR.T.D.: Random Turtle DivisionFrench Fry and PotatoBen and the Last Name Debacle!The Last BojangleC.S.I. BedrockVapidiot 3: PalinSadman ForlorniaUpchuckleA Flair for the UniformSimple: A Game for BabiesCart B. 4: The HorseSnakewhipThe Lonely EyeballTriscuit FlambeCavalier WimbledonLarry King's JacksLarry King's Cup and BallLarry King's Wheel MakeI Want EarlMy First Tramp StampThe Computer Turn-Off Turn-OnAnnoying FriendPapier Machet Giraffe NeckOpaque WindowKitten DisembowelFreedom 3: AbortionTree 2: The Deciduous ProjectPalindrome 2: Emord NilapBeyond PuddingPages of FuryThe BlabberfestSweat SpotPuddle of DOOMCalamari: The Squiddening
― bamcquern, Friday, 13 July 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
idgi but lol
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Friday, 13 July 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Bissell lives in Portland now, I think, and I have issues with the part of his Extra Lives book where he goes on and on about how much he loved GTA4, a love that just so happened to coincide with his intake of mounds of blow, which could JUUUUUUUUST color his impressions a little.
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Friday, 13 July 2012 07:36 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda amazing to me that after doing all that coke he was cool with sitting down for marathon GTA sessions in his livingroom
― Mordy, Friday, 13 July 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
Kinda strikes me as undeniable proof that dude is hella boring
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
but how can a drug abuser be boring yo???
― Nhex, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
ughhhh that bissell piece on spec ops the line is awful. his smarty pants hardman bullshit is fucking infuriating especially when there's a little picture of his stupid bearded lambchop-album-buying face down by the byline. fuck you bissell you are not elevating the discourse the right way and you make us all look bad.
― adam, Monday, 16 July 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
smarty pants is not actually an insult.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 July 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe, in the end, "blowing off steam" is the only kind of experience a shooter needs to enable. The shooter is merely a vent. OK. I suppose I can accept that. But I just went and looked into the vent of my apartment's air conditioner. You know what? It was filthy.
yeah it is
― adam, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
No, no it fucking isn't. What he is doing there is making a) a joke and b) a point at the same time. Either of these are largely out of the reach of most games journalists, it's nice that there's someone who can do both.
Also the article told me about things I didn't know about, and connected them to other things in a smart way - again that's just journalism, but it stands out.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
The gentleman declines to answer, so Sam sticks his knife into the gentleman's clavicle. The gamer is then given an onscreen prompt to twirl around his controller's joystick, which in turn twirls around Sam's knife in the gentleman's wound. The screaming gentleman gives Sam the info he needs — and, suddenly, it's "moral choice" time, for Sam has to choose whether to kill or knock out his freshly tortured victim. Let's review: a moral choice — after an interactive torture sequence.
this is seriously fucked up.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
goole otm, what the hell
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't think the article quite pushed all the way into the places i wanted it to go but like is the objection here that his metaphors are pretentious or that he called shooters filthy or what, because i thought that metaphor was serviceable and shooters are obviously filthy
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
what is the joke? what is the point? a physical vent is dirty so maybe his psychological vent is too? great.
i acknowledge that games journalism is terrible but sticking some dumbass klosterman/simmons/blog narcissism into it isn't going to fix anything.
― adam, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's unfair to compare anyone to dfw, but i couldn't help but think of the lobster festival profile where he discusses some of the moral issues involved w/ eating lobster. one thing about the shooter article is that he makes ethical decisions but doesn't seem to implicate himself in them. whereas for dfw the ethics were always personal and collective, bissel kinda posits himself as a moral hero fighting for truth + justice. this is a guy btw who think GTA is the epitome of video gaming (and if you look at his list of *good* shooters, if you've played many of them you may notice that they don't really handle violence in a particularly sensitive way - they are just better designed aesthetically and ludically. which i guess makes it easier to enjoy them w/out feeling bad about yourself).
― Mordy, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
like if his answer for why ppl like video game violence is that it taps into reptilian brain consciousness and helps blow off steam - seems like a huge missed opportunity to get at some deeper things about american culture, gaming culture, etc. of course u could try to write a big piece that addresses those things and lack just as much substance. i didn't hate the article fwiw, i found it enjoyable in that superficial Bissel way where he clearly cares about these things but maybe isn't so ambitious about how he approaches writing about them.
― Mordy, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
bissel kinda posits himself as a moral hero fighting for truth + justice
Not really.
― JCL, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
The paragraph that JCL's quote above came from seems to implicate himself fairly well - not in a sense that he is railing against and/or trying to extricate himself, but I guess he doesn't do that so much?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
one thing about the shooter article is that he makes ethical decisions but doesn't seem to implicate himself in them.
the impression I had was that he spent the entire article asking "exactly how sick am I that I love these games?"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
yeah when i said "the places i wanted it to go" i meant that i want articles about this kind of thing to really be rigorous about extracting+describing the evil worm in the writer's soul. this kinda talked about it: my favorite line in the whole thing was "for me shooters aren't about blowing off steam; they're about taking in steam." i don't actually think that metaphor quite works but i get the idea. most of the article shies away from that. prolly cuz it's the single most unpleasant subject a human can address. then there's questions like "why do we want our puzzles to bleed and scream?" which he asks and immediately drops.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link