Tag Archives: capitalism

The Robo-proletariat

Posted on 01/23/2013 by

In a continuing cycle where Ben Abraham writes something, Daniel Joseph responds, and I comment on what they both wrote, here I am doing it again. Ben wrote a post titled “The End-Game of Labour Automation Meets Social Media” in … Continue reading →

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On Players and Designers

Posted on 12/27/2012 by

Ben Abraham made a post about the claim game developers often make about “players” and what players want. What Ben comes to, in serious tl;dr fashion, is that “shit is complicated.” It is difficult to represent all possible humans in … Continue reading →

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The Comics Industry Is Evil

Posted on 09/21/2012 by

I honestly don’t understand what is so bloody hard about this. The Big Two, Marvel and DC for the uninitiated, have a long history of fucking over their creative talent. The business model has been an incredibly brutal form of … Continue reading →

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In Praise of the Worst Design Moment in Final Fantasy 7

Posted on 09/20/2012 by

Final Fantasy 7. Cloud, Tifa, and Barret have to save Aeris from Shinra. To do so, they have to make their way from the lower level of two-tiered Midgar to the top of “the plate.” The plate hangs over the lower … Continue reading →

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The Money Problem in Video Games Writing

Posted on 08/23/2012 by

A few days ago, Alan Williamson wrote an article for Nightmare Mode where he claimed to be a “murderer” who has been “killing games journalism” because he has been writing about video games for free for the past decade or so. This … Continue reading →

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Current Times 29

Posted on 08/09/2012 by

This is a Current Times post where I post a bunch of links (mostly from tabs I have open in my browser.) If you want to read past Current Times, click here. 1. Sparky Clarkson has a piece up on … Continue reading →

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On Thomsen’s “Will Work for Fun”

Posted on 05/14/2012 by

So the video game world is blowing up a little bit today over Michael Thomsen‘s article for Kill Screen titled “Will Work for Fun.” To start off, I want to say that I agree with 90% of what Thomsen has … Continue reading →

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Jita, Burning

Posted on 05/09/2012 by

I don’t know anything about EVE Online. I hear things, now and again, though. Burn Jita is one of those things that I have heard about. Gamepolitics explains: “Starting last Friday, it was on fire,” CCP software director Erlendur S. … Continue reading →

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On Games of Empire

Posted on 05/08/2012 by

I finished Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter‘s Games of Empire yesterday (then powered through Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology immediately after). The short version of my review is that Games of Empire is a great analysis of the material conditions that make up the system that … Continue reading →

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On the Authorship of Games

Posted on 04/18/2012 by

I am sure that everyone has read the article in The Atlantic about Jonathan Blow. If you haven’t, here it is. Here is a quick list of what I learned from the article: 1. Jonathan Blow is kind of a dick. 2. … Continue reading →

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