MrHoatzin

I'll add another vote to Sublime. It is very powerful, but horribly documented.

Seen Sal play it for, like, the entire weekend (of billowing, sailing-on-the-seas-of-cheese music). The combat fills the gaps between movies, like a wall of slot machines one has to feed before advancing. The utter absence of any kind of inventiveness on the game play end is glaring. It feels like so much money went into this thing, the suits made damn sure there wasn't anything surprising going into the product. The side quests are fun. She likes it "even though it is tedious as fuck... and boring." She says she finds it "funny even though it is boring."

There is a bunch of selection rules dude lists in the article.

Obviously everyone who disagrees with me is embarrassingly full of shit.

But Ron Gilbert didn't work on that one. Also, no, Monkey 2 is the best monkey. Then comes 1. Then Tales of Monkey Island, because I am a huge kissass and whatnot. Then 3.

At first, I was the only pointer at the party, then I clicked to open the ligh-tbox and then I was the only black cursor at the party.

Whoa, have you never played Monkey Island 1 & 2??

Well sure, but it was really just a flamboyant trick question that allowed him to talk about something else. It is not even a premise as such. He does make a solid case for why poetic technologies are no longer pursued with as much fervor as they have been for the entirety of modernity.

This is a long one but a fun one. I've been listening to podcasty stuff as I draw. David Graeber starts with a ridiculous premise of Where are all the awesome things that 1960s science fiction promised we'd have by now? …and manages to be show that it is not at all an unreasonable question for us to ask. Along the way he drive-bys some fun interpretations of pop culture he touches upon. Anyway, you should all also read Debt: The First 5000 Years. Good book.

Also, pst, you guys, are kinda still all press what with a popular podcast media empire you moonlight with...

This dude. This is your Miasmata dude at work— Fabrication d'une lampe-triode I search out this video every so often to just meditate with it. I think I may even have it saved somewhere. ¬¬

The way the dude rants on about Aztecs and sonteria and the bible is utterly baffling.

I think if a system makes it easier for white dudes to assume positions of power due to whatever fake meritocracy cascade of life choices on their part, calling it patriarchy is pretty accurate. If a father of a family owns the honor of all the children (and can murder them for perceived slights against honor with society's endorsement) also calling it patriarchy is accurate. When a bunch of white dudes who have percolated through the system built for them, take it upon themselves to make decisions about reproductive rights of women constituents, calling it patriarchy is enlightening and accurate.

It is definitely kitsch. Calling something kitsch doesn't excuse it or make it a coherent critique of art or whatever. The entirety of their point is still PRT, ART, AMIRITE?!I guess it manages to transcend itself as a perfect illustration of what is wrong with the misogynistic dudebro gamer culture, as if we're wanting for more examples of anti-intellectual, reactionary bullshit from this industry and its fans.

Patriarchy is used interchangeably as the status quo. I take it to refer to power structures rather than "men" in general.

The people who are defending this is "satire of art" get to me the most... like, what cogent and timely point about "ART" could you possibly be making by poking fun at some broken sculpture from the bronze age?

I enjoy the notion of waiting for a day that has already passed. Reminds me of that theory (heresy?) that since Jesus promised he would be back within the lifetimes of peeps alive when he psych-died, the entire 2000 years of history since must be an illusion perpetrated by the Devil to help us lose our faith.

Similarly, my birthday on these here forums is March 20, 1455.

The side view is really exciting to me. It is surprising platforming adventures such as this one haven't caught on. I remember in grade school filling notebooks with these elaborate diagrams of puzzle caves. I thought of them as platformers as they were inspired by The Lost Vikings and Commander Keen (and trap-laden tombs of Indiana Jones)—but it always stumped the tween me that I couldn't fit them into the platforming genre since there was not much platforming going on. They were just elaborate trap mazes with unique solutions behind every "room".

There are no good American candies for the spoiled European palate. They use peanuts and shun hazelnuts and mix chocolate so that it tastes like paraffin, on purpose.

Just buy 20 dollars worth of diapers at HEB and tape the receipt to the package. I am super weird about presents, giving as well as receiving (they have to mean somehting), that in these sort of cases I just buy a thing and try to spend as little time as possible thinking about it.

So Luftmensch, do you want to do art art or just get better at craft art? Because you're plenty good at the craft bit of it to stop caring about just getting better. Start making things you want to make and get better that way. Hang out with the local art scene and befriend competent people, then draft them to critique your work. Do you primarily work digitally? Cause if so, you should probably drop that habit. Knowing to paint in oils and acrylics and draw with all kinds of old-school media has had an infinitely bigger positive impact on my Photoshop skills than other way around.

Now the whole of Norway will have to deal with sanctions imposed by Apple. SEE HOW ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?!

Aw man, the mac version doesn't have a Goldbloom mode, boo.