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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts – A Hill
In Call of Duty: Ghosts there is a multiplayer map called Prison Break, and I guess that there’s some reason that it is called that, though I can’t tell you what it might be. The top-down view doesn’t do the map justice, … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged call of duty: ghosts, multiplayer, realism, video games
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McKenzie Wark on the Ludic Century
The twenty-first century – the ludic century – is animated in part by just that fantasy: that the feedback loop can be closed, and action can be modified in realtime depending on data about its immediate effects. Of course in … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged mckenzie wark, video games
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The Fake Gamer t-shirt
There’s been an outbreak of a syndrome–fake gamers multiply by the day. They’ve never played A Link To The Past. They can’t hadouken. They don’t know what grue is; they don’t know to be afraid. I’ve made a shirt to … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged fake gamer, t-shirt, video games
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Marcom in A Brief History of Yes
So now it is Maria’s turn to laugh. She laughs. And the girl opens her mouth and all of the laughing animals and not-animals run out of her mouth and into the air–which butterflies and sandhill cranes which hillside songbird … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged a brief history of yes, book, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, quote
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Call of Duty: Ghosts – Death as a Language
In Call of Duty: Ghosts there is a map called “Whiteout” and within that map I often wander. I roam the map in solitude because despite always coming to this map in order to play team-based activities, I never manage to play … Continue reading
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Tagged call of duty: ghosts, death, language, video games
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Terry Kennedy on his Baker 3 Part
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Tagged baker 3, skateboarding, terry kennedy
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Samantha Allen on the Transgender Day of Remembrance
On November 20th, we cannot mourn the past without interrogating our present. It’s easy to grieve the dead; it’s harder to come to terms with our complicity in their oppression, with the parts of ourselves that would still regard a … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time
Tagged samantha allen, trans*
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Kanye via Isaac
I’m writing on Kanye and the videogame aesthetic right now. Sample:
this cage is worms 