This link has been bookmarked by 599 people . It was first bookmarked on 02 Mar 2006, by Douglas.
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I would say that I have a complicated relationship with my father if I didn’t think that “complicated relationships with fathers” weren’t the functional default. I don’t know, maybe that’s something I made up. Maybe I’ve just self-selected a cohort messed up for the same reasons I am.
He never really knew what to do with me, and I never knew what to do with him, except to use him as a counterexample. I’m still digging out the shrapnel of this policy.
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You develop a kind of linguistic moat to protect the thing you love. The term for that is Jargon, but I find Jargon itself to be Jargon for linguaphiles. It sounds like some malevolent emperor, and in a way its function is the same: the cultivated maintenance of warring fiefdoms.
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people leveraged abstraction to expel demons
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When you are lying on your back because parts which have historically been inside parts are now coming out, you have a lot of time to think about your choices.
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It has not been my experience that “women” is an incredibly useful term when it comes to knowing what people are like. Likewise, “men” hasn’t proved especially stable as a construct!
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There is a button he can push when it hurts him, and he is always pushing it.
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The old saying is that “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” which as a long rhetorical thorn was irresistible to me as a young person. I recognize it now for its myopia and its cowardice. That’s not to say that any writer can write about music; it is entirely possible, and statistically likely, to fail. But somebody’s gonna fucking dance about architecture one of these days, they will, and my greatest fear that I won’t recognize it when it happens.
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we agree on nothing, except nothing. We are molecular enemies. But we can agree that the ref is almost certainly on the take.
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I was able to kill Jamie several times, which I think provides a brute index of my valor, even though I was playing as a woman draped in almost a ton of sacred armor and Jamie was playing as a half-naked steampunk space-sherrif who thinks that a few belts strapped to her bare legs constitutes a comprehensive defense strategy.
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Caden RockwynI don't like this one. I'm bookmarking it to remind myself that I don't like it.
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dave o'brien"Consider that "Quake," a game which came after Duke and was considered to be the primary competitor to Duke at that time, did away with manual interactions altogether. You progressed through the game largely via frottage; you simply rubbed yourself against walls and doors until they gave way, either by a scripted trigger or simply through vigorous abrasion. Duke could have been made as a response to Quake, even though it came out before: it had world as tangible, or more tangible, than many shooters today."
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Consider that "Quake," a game which came after Duke and was considered to be the primary competitor to Duke at that time, did away with manual interactions altogether. You progressed through the game largely via frottage; you simply rubbed yourself against walls and doors until they gave way, either by a scripted trigger or simply through vigorous abrasion. Duke could have been made as a response to Quake, even though it came out before: it had world as tangible, or more tangible, than many shooters today.
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Gaurav Vaidya@PradeepDewars Look! I found something you will like! http://bit.ly/chulq8 /via @cwgabriel and http://penny-arcade.com
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I don't mean to turn PA into an episode of Kids say the darnedest things but some of you might appreciate this. I was playing Star Wars with my son the other night when he said something funny. Little Gabe is obsessed with Star Wars and so much of our play time involves reenacting the movies. On this particular occasion he was playing the role of the emperor while I was Luke Skywalker. He had seated himself in my computer chair and when he spun around to face me I saw that he had placed a toy Lightsaber on the arm rest. He patted it gently and said "You want this don't you?" I could not help but laugh at how ridiculous the scene was. This bothered him and he told me not to laugh at him because he was the emperor and he was evil. "Yes I know." I told him and tried to get my act together but his little angry eyes underneath the hood of his Mickey Mouse sweatshirt made me laugh even more. "I'm bad." he said and as if to prove it told me "I litter!"
"What?" I asked "What do you mean you litter?" He pushed back his hood and looked at me seriously "Well littering is against the law and the Emperor does all bad things right?" I imagined the Emperor stalking the halls of the Deathstar and munching on a snickers bar. He finishes the last bite and throws the crumpled wrapper over his shoulder. An Imperial Guard bends to snatch it up and the Emperor raises a hand. "Leave it." he croaks. The guard pauses, his red gloved hand shudders as it hovers over the bit of garbage lying there on the Deathstar's polished Durasteel floor. The emperor watches the guard's discomfort with growing satisfaction, a smile creasing his shriveled face. The Guard stands and follows the Emperor away and he can not help but spare a backwards glance at the trash he left behind. With the glance comes a thought, a thought he will never share out-loud but one that shakes him to his very core. "I serve a monster!"
I looked at my son and realized that in his five year old mind there is no gradient to evil. For him, the act of destroying Alderaan and littering are equal. The sort of person who could to one might easily do the other. I smiled at him "Of course he litters son. He litters all the time." He smiled knowingly and I reached out with the force to summon my Lightsaber.
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Steve OEqual parts comics and commentary, Penny Arcade features Tycho and Gabe, the alter egos of creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Read about the antics and thoughts of the Penny Arcade crew, updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Jeremy MurphyEqual parts comics and commentary, Penny Arcade features Tycho and Gabe, the alter egos of creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Read about the antics and thoughts of the Penny Arcade crew, updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Angela Becerra VidergarFrom Lori Lynn Taniguchi:
I consider Penny Arcade to be a singular phenomenon: not only is it a wildly popular comic on gamer culture with heavy "bromance" language, vulgarity and shock value, but it is also an unparalleled business venture. Not even the very rare self-sufficient webcomics online can boast a huge, yearly gaming expo in Seattle and an immensely successful charity for sick children in St. Jude hospitals. The writer and artist have created not only an entertaining webcomic, but have grown themselves into a culture icon with lasting and far-reaching influence, all with an aw-shucks-gamer-next-door quality. -
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LittleBigPlanet and Braid are both gigantic ideas, and it's no coincidence that they're both platformers, which constitutes a kind of conceptual base camp. Platforming is a kind of elemental genre flavor,
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we should entertain the idea that its creator wasn't trying to make an "Xbox Live Arcade Game." Perhaps he was trying to make a good game, the best game he could, and Microsoft's Broadening Initiative For Digital Content was the last thing on his mind.
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Developers and publishers have the right to protect their interests, to ask that I pay for what I play. But don’t we have the right to own what we’ve purchased? To do what we want with it?
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