February 2012
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The US Supreme Court has held exactly one criminal... →
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Not sure what I think of this: “Games that no longer support their creators.” Muddled thoughts follow.
Computer game developers (designers, programmers, writers, artists, and so forth) often work together in a studio as a team to produce a game, or a set of games; to fund the development and publication of said game(s), they often rely on a publisher with deep pockets, who receives...
“Health insurer Aetna Inc.’s fourth-quarter net income jumped 73 percent, as it continued to benefit from low use of health care and some key expenses fell.
The Hartford, Conn., insurer’s earnings and revenue topped Wall Street expectations due in part to slower-than-expected growth in health care use, a trend that has helped insurers routinely outperform the past several quarters. Many...
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“Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America — more than six million — than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.
The accelerating rate of incarceration over the past few decades is just as startling as the...
January 2012
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This makes me feel much better about not renewing... →
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Mapstalgia: Draw a map and submit it! →
mapstalgia:
Mapstalgia is all about looking at stuff people drew and being like “oh man, that freakin’ game, yeah!” So welcome, and browse away!
But it’s also about sitting down and drawing something up yourself. It doesn’t have to be fancy, it almost certainly won’t be accurate, but you’re dragging these…
Mapstalgia is my favorite new blog of the moment - and not just because I know a...
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“I always thought the first creature-independent randomly generated materials...”
– From the development blog of Dwarf Fortress, an independent (and free! — but donation-supported) video game that has been continually evolving for years. Part of me looks forward to the day when it’s ‘finished,’ but half the fun of playing it now is experiencing it in all its...
LoveThisLoveMe: BLDGBLOG: Brooklyn VentAn excerpt... →
lovethisloveme:
BLDGBLOG: Brooklyn Vent An excerpt from an article:
In the novel Foucault’s Pendulum, two characters discuss a house that is not what it appears to be. People “walk by” this certain house in Paris, we read, “and they don’t know the truth. That the house is a fake. It’s a facade, an…
December 2011
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“WHEN YOU HAVE SEVEN CHILDREN IN D.C…THE SEWAGE THAT FLOWS INTO YOUR HOUSE...”
– -Rick Santorum, speaking live on December 17th.
“Not just physical damage.” Oh no! The internet punched my son! Rick Santorum: making me sad to be a Pennsylvanian since 1991.
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“He said, ‘Wait. We also want to drive a car through the lobby of Daley...”
– The Blues Brothers: Thirty Years Later.
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“Monopoly is a terrible, terrible game.
I can hear the mixed reactions already...”
– I have had this exact conversation many times over, and close variants as well — “what, like Clue/Parchisi/Risk?” — but it is most galling with Monopoly because, as cogently argued herein, Monopoly is terrible.
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“Holiday gifts: If your employer gives you a turkey, ham, or other item of...”
– Thanks, IRS. TAX-FREE HAMS FOR EVERYONE!
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In today’s news: H.R. 3321: [the] America’s Cup Act of 2011 was just signed into law, ”To facilitate the hosting in the United States of the 34th America’s Cup by authorizing certain eligible vessels to participate in activities related to the competition, and for other purposes.” That sounds pretty legit, right? I mean — wait, hold a second. What “other...
November 2011
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ART REQUIRES DUTY.
AND THAT LADIES AND GENTLEMAN IS WHY VIDEO GAMES ARE BOTH NOT-YET-ART AND YET ABSOLUTELY NEED TO EMBRACE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF BEING ART. THE UNFORMED THEMATIC MESSAGES ARE OUT THERE RUNNING WILD AND EMBRACING THIS CATCH 22 OF NOT-BEING-ART, BUT HAVING THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT IS EXACTLY WHAT PROPELS YOU TO THE PROMISED LAND. AND FOLKS, IT CAN’T JUST BE THE RARE CASE...
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SERIOUSLY, HAS THE BLATANT SEXISM ON DISPLAY IN ARKHAM CITY ACHIEVED SOME LEVEL OF COMMENTARY? CAN HULK EXPLAIN THE GENDER ROLES? NO. IMAGINE HULK GOING ON WITH IT, “THE PLUNGING V-NECK OF CATWOMAN COUPLE WITH THE NON-STOP VERBAL BERATING OF WOMEN AS BITCHES IS ACTUALLY A BRECHTIAN MECHANISM TO SHOW HOW THE REALITY OF SEXISM IS EVERYWHERE, A NON-STOP ANALYSIS AND OH FOR FUCK SAKE HULK CAN’T GO...
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“Dear Leader Pelosi […]
I am in Washington Monday and would love to...”
– I really cannot quite believe that this a real thing.
