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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Released: CMRN KNZLMN Presents Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
I have made a new, silly little game called CMRN KNZLMN Presents Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. You can play it by clicking the link or the picture above. Please share it with friends, family, and everyone … Continue reading
Posted in A Game I Made, Video Games
Tagged ernest hemingway, i made this, video games
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Meryl Alper on Citations and Elision
One could go deeper, reading Kaplan and Schulte’s work side-by-side. For example, Kaplan writes that in 1983, “The first laptop computers had barely hit the market; public Internet providers wouldn’t exist for another few years. Yet [national security decision directive] … Continue reading
Emily Short on the almost-remake of Galatea
Doing the conversion was a strange project. For one thing, I myself have a kind of weird love-hate relationship with Galatea at this point — a lot of people love the piece, but it’s pretty much the first thing I wrote that … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged emily short, galatea, interactive fiction, video games
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The Walking Dead: Michonne review at Paste
The Walking Dead: Michonne gives up all of the unique and interesting parts of the The Walking Dead adventure games in order to appeal to the television crowd, and it makes me sad. The formula is slightly different from top … Continue reading
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Tagged paste magazine, review, the walking dead: michonne
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Oil Spills In Peru
Read the account here. The logic here is astonishing yet unsurprising: destroy the ecology of a place and then subsidize the correction of that destruction by making agents who live in that ecology take care of the problem. If, in … Continue reading
Imran Khan on Gamestop in Puerto Rico
Part of the problem is the Jones Act, also known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. It is profoundly dry reading, but its profundity to Puerto Rican retailers is hard to understate. The Jones Act essentially requires that all … Continue reading
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Tagged gamestop, imran khan, puerto rico, video games
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Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday
I enjoy Pee-Wee Herman. I have no further statement.
Posted in General Features
Tagged pee-wee herman, pee-wee's big holiday, trailer
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30 Years of Trinity Islands
Earlier today Twitter user @PointlessDude reached out to me to show me the abomination he has created in Rollercoaster Tycoon. He’s played Trinity Islands, a level in the game that I recently completed myself, for a long time. I think the normal … Continue reading
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Tagged gaming, monstrosity, pointlessdude, rollercoaster tycoon, video games
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Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch
I went to the latest Pro Tour event, and you can read my write up of the event over at Paste.
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Tagged magic the gathering, paste magazine
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