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    If the GG thread is any indication, there seem to be a lot of us who are either currently involved or interested in being involved in writing about games on a more professional level, so I thought I'd make a thread.

     

    Here's my story: I just graduated college, and I want to write about games professionally. I'm a confident writer, I work well under a deadline, and I don't really have any problems motivating myself - but the logistics of freelancing escape me. Like, I know I'm supposed to be making pitches to... an editor? A managing editor? Am I pitching ideas for articles, or am I pitching fully-written pieces? How does that process change if it's an OP/ED? I'm just unclear on the little things, but I don't want to screw that up, because people in the industry have long memories and I don't want to get on anyone's bad side right off the bat.

     

    I'm gonna start reading Nathan Meunier's book Up Up Down Down Left Write tonight. Are there any books right off the bat that y'all can recommend?

     

    Anyway, let's talk about freelancing here! Share stories, motivate each other, brag about getting published!

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    The lamps are going out all over video games, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

     

    No, I'm excited about E3! But hearing Griffin McElroy and Chris Plante talk about it on The Verge sort of made me realize that even though I've dreamed about going to the show basically since I was a kid, it wouldn't ever live up to what I thought it would be. Maybe I should go to Gamescom.

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    After Joel McHale and fucking Mr Caffeine I'll take Aisha Tyler on stage any day - to say nothing of the fact that I'd put good money on her being the only woman of color we see onstage the whole week.

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    Jacques Pépin's books La Technique and La Methode should be read by anyone who intends to get even slightly serious about cooking. They were more recently combined into a volume called Complete Techniques, which is one part cookbook and one part incredibly helpful step-by-step guide to, well, the techniques and methods of cooking. Absolutely essential, in my opinion. The Joy of Cooking is also pretty choice, but it can be expensive... but I find that used bookstores pretty frequently have it.

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    Yeah, that article was bizarre. There are so many angles to pursue, even if you aren't interested in a game - maybe especially in that case. "Detached ennui" isn't interesting to read and it doesn't endear the writer to me. What I like about (for example) Cara Ellison's writing is that her hunger for, like, understanding and meaning and narrative and metanarrative drips off the page. She's constantly playing for the angle. She makes you want it as much as she does, even if you don't care about the game. Campbell has the language, but he's missing the grist. An article about not caring still has to make me care about why you don't care.

     

    That said: Hey, they can't all be home runs, so keep refining the craft and take another shot at it. Something in this vein could absolutely be better than your typical preview, even if this particular effort... wasn't.

  13. Posted

    I mean, I don't eat Chik Fil-A, either. Y'all do what you want, I'm not really interested in telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do with their money, but I'd feel like a worse person if my money was going to support Brad Wardell. Fuck that guy, frankly.

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    Those godlike Dendi RPs. :o

    AFTER 60 MINUTES OF WHIFFING RP HE LANDS THE PLAY OF HIS CAREER i love dendi so much and i want navi to win the international again and i'll cry. thank you for reading my posts.

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    Thought I'd better post a less horrendous picture:

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    I don't think that there's a thread on here about this kind of thing, but I've been making an effort to finally get myself into shape this past year or so. I've lost about 46 pounds so far and have another 24 or so to reach my target. I've got to say, life is better in almost every way now that I'm no longer lugging so much fat around, as seen in this picture from early last year (I don't have many photos of me at my largest because, well, I didn't like seeing myself):

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    It's very motivating being able to 'upgrade' my photos online, including on dating sites and generally getting higher levels of interest. :D

     

    You look amazing! Congrats, and keep up the good work!

  22. Posted

    EVE is huge and completely impenetrable, I can't fault anyone for putting it on permanent mental back-burner status.

     

    (Also I'll be honest: Dan's obliviousness on a lot of stuff gives the podcast a great entry point to talk about things in a more comprehensive way, which isn't something they do a lot anymore. Even if it does occasionally get frustrating.)

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    I'm not trying to be a negative Nancy just on principle, but... it's a post-apocalyptic open-world driving game with batman combat, a gruff stubbly white protagonist, and tower scaling to reveal the map. It's like a laundry list of features from annualized games that everyone has already played to death.