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Interesting Bioshock Infinite Posts, Podcasts, and General Things
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
Posted in Video Games
Tagged art, bioshock infinite, courtney stanton, daniel joseph, darius kazemi, video games
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On Bioshock Infinite
SPOILERS FOR BIOSHOCK INFINITE “There’s no point in asking.” “Why not?” “Because he doesn’t row.” “He doesn’t row?” “No, he DOESN’T row.” “Ah, I see what you mean.” My appraisal of Bioshock Infinite sits roughly in the same place that … Continue reading
On Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
Before anything else: Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto is a book written by David Kushner that sets out to tell the story of the Grand Theft Auto franchise from its beginning to its end. It succeeds in that if “succeeds” means … Continue reading
On Astrid’s Animation
There aren’t many positions for characters to be in when you are playing Skyrim. They’re walking, they’re standing, they’re fighting. The Jarls, basically the lords of the different holds, have an pose where they lounge far back in their chairs. But … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged skyrim, the dark brotherhood, theory, video games, visual rhetoric
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You Buy It I Write It: Secret of the Magic Crystal
There comes a time when language fails, when the very concept of putting meaning into symbolic utterances is not sufficient or even a possibility in light of something that occurs to us. I feel this way about Secret of the Magic … Continue reading
Tom Chick on Sim City Societies and Conditioning
Some buildings apply conditioning, which pushes a citizen’s happiness level toward the middle. If your city is miserable, conditioning can be an effective way to keep everyone from rioting. It will tamp down the upper level of happiness as well. … Continue reading
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Tagged quote, simcity, video games
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On Kentucky Route Zero, Act 1
Warning: some vague spoilers about Kentucky Route Zero. This isn’t going to be long. I’m not going to address the comparisons to The Walking Dead that everyone is making (which I don’t understand at all). If you care about the conversation that has … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged daniel joseph, david lynch, horror, kentucky route zero, video games
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Jessica Curry and Dan Pinchbeck on Dear Esther and thechineseroom
This is a great video of a talk by Curry and Pinchbeck where they just sort of nerd out and give a very long (45 minute) talk about the development of Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. It is very much worth … Continue reading
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Tagged amnesia: a machine for pigs, dan pinchbeck, dear esther, jessica curry, video games
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“a Rockstar Problem in gaming”
i think there is definitely a Rockstar Problem in gaming right now (maybe always), with various dudes (white dudes) being elevated to Lead Singers essentially or even Brand Faces, maybelline-style, where there’s this mystique around the Cliffy Bs and Ken … Continue reading
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Tagged rockstar problem, video games
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Bob Plant on Foucault on Sadomasochism
Let me be clear, I am not suggesting that S&M necessarily involves malice (or that its practitioners naturally harbor some ‘deep violence’), but rather that the possibility of such non-strategic eventualities has a productive function here. That a specific game could degenerate … Continue reading
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Tagged michel foucault, quote, sadomasochism, video games
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this cage is worms 