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Comment on Why Bulletstorm was Actually a Good Game by Current Times 26 | this cage is worms

Current Times 26 | this cage is worms — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:37:54 +0000

[...] or reinterpretation of mechanics as a way of “opening up” design. I thought the last segment of Bulletstorm was awesome because it did that. Most striking the demo footage reveals a sequence with the [...]

Comment on A Brilliant Bit By Erin Manning by Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:37:08 +0000

There is a lack of wisdom in such considerations, which only means someone has been living in their head.

Comment on A Brilliant Bit By Erin Manning by kunzelman

kunzelman — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Maybe so. I am more talking about the claim that factory farms can be spaces of change and construction for human/nonhuman animal relationships than anything else. Animals suffering is bad; disguising that suffering in liberation language is bad, too.

Comment on A Brilliant Bit By Erin Manning by Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:27:17 +0000

Without going into this deeper, I sense some intellectualisation is going on in the matter of the suffering of animals.

Comment on I Am Not Going To Play Diablo 3 by kunzelman

kunzelman — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:34:28 +0000

I don’t know if they are as cavalier about it, but I think their pricing ethos is similar to Apple’s: “We make three products, you want to play them, and we aren’t budging on our access.”

Comment on I Am Not Going To Play Diablo 3 by jonahstowe

jonahstowe — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:32:48 +0000

I too am waiting for Diablo 3. What has annoyed me, to be honest, is Blizzard’s over-inflated sense of their games’ worth. Starcraft 2 has been out for almost 2 years, and yet it is still $60 if you buy it through Battle.net–I know it’s cheaper elsewhere, but the Battle.net price is a clear indication of what Blizzard thinks we should all be paying. This approach doesn’t make sense to me, unless Blizzard has become such an ego-maniacal studio that their thinking is akin to Apple’s: “It doesn’t matter what the price is, everyone thinks we’re awesome and they’ll buy it no matter what.”

Comment on How I Politically Situate Myself by Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:15:31 +0000

It’s a challenge. Because they tend to interpret a response like “It can’t be done” to mean “You murder squirrels and babies.”

Comment on How I Politically Situate Myself by dariusk

dariusk — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:41:29 +0000

Yeah, I think everyone *here* is in agreement about everything. I’m just wondering how to answer the charges that are likely to be leveled by those who want ethics to be derived directly from first principles…

Comment on How I Politically Situate Myself by Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:06:54 +0000

Certainly it’s not yet satisfying. That may be work that can’t be done on blogs, but we’ll see…

Comment on How I Politically Situate Myself by kunzelman

kunzelman — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:05:51 +0000

Awesome. I don’t find anything to disagree with AP, either. I just want there to be an additional step beyond “ethical obligations explode out, forever.” Levi Bryant’s response to this post sums it up as “situations come up, we have to respond to them, ethics is there”, which I find true but also not satisfying.