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Preliminary Thoughts on The Knife of Dunwall

Posted on 04/18/2013 by kunzelman

I’ve played through roughly half of the first “stage” or “chapter” or “section” or whatever the hell it is called in the new DLC for Dishonored called “The Knife of Dunwall“. My main interest in this DLC stems from the fact that it … Continue reading →

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Thacker on Life

Posted on 04/17/2013 by kunzelman

This third kind of life, the”nameless thing” so often described by Lovecraft, is a paradigm for the concept of life today. The concept of life encompasses so much, from the most reductive biological viewpoint to the most open-ended ethical or … Continue reading →

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A Video Game Playing Itself

Posted on 04/15/2013 by kunzelman

So Tom 7 did some stuff and created, essentially, a control algorithm that allows a game to play itself. FYI at the end of the day this is a research blog so mostly this is for personal archiving.

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Supplement to #RespectCon13 Talk

Posted on 04/12/2013 by kunzelman

Today I am speaking at RespectCon about sexual violence in video games. This post is a collection of links that I talked about, and through, in the talk. 1. Jason Schreier “You’ll ‘Want to Protect’ the New, Less Curvy Lara … Continue reading →

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On Monster Loves You!

Posted on 04/11/2013 by kunzelman

My taste in games has altered over the past few months. I am less and less willing to put thirty hours, much less forty, sixty, or eighty, into a game. Although I spent last year playing some long games (most … Continue reading →

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Philip K. Dick’s Coffee Robot

Posted on 04/10/2013 by kunzelman

“One postcred please,” the speaker said. It began to tick ominously. “Or in ten seconds I will notify the police.” He passed the postcred over. The ticking stopped. “We can do this without your kind,” the speaker said. “One of … Continue reading →

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A Quick Note About Criticism and Bioshock Infinite

Posted on 04/09/2013 by kunzelman

SPOILERZ FOR BIOSHOCK INFINITY AND BEYOND: THE RECKONINGThere is some video game adage that I have heard a few times that goes something like this: a video game gets more testing in the first week of release than it does … Continue reading →

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Richard Cobbett on Bioshock 2

Posted on 04/08/2013 by kunzelman

The list goes on, but its most important element is that where BioShock was ultimately the story of a city, BioShock 2 is the story of its people – and in particular, a father and daughter relationship. On the surface … Continue reading →

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Rhizome Profiles Alex Myers

Posted on 04/05/2013 by kunzelman

So Alex Myers has a lot of radditude and you can look at his blog and his twitter for constant updates on his life. I constantly want to write at length about Alex, but I’ve yet to spend the time … Continue reading →

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Interesting Bioshock Infinite Posts, Podcasts, and General Things

Posted on 04/04/2013 by kunzelman

So this is going to be the place where I collect posts about Bioshock Infinite that I find interesting and worth keeping up with for FUTURE THINGZ I WRITE. I’m a big fan of making these personal data collections public, so here’s … Continue reading →

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