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Margaret Robertson once sat in a GameCamp talk about the CK of games, waited patiently until the end, then asked the speaker "What's the Tetris of film?"

It was just what he had to hand in the absence of any suitable aluminium struts. I think it's just that shielding is another thing to build, so it's easier (and dumber) to not.

That's the sort Here it is; it's made of solid oak. The first actual flight is about one minute in:

A friend of mine built a quadrotor once. He got it out at a party; it flew under a table and cut someone's toe open. Only a little bit though.

Video games or not, just keep making stuff. The best work you see out there sits on top a mountain of shit. It's not like your favourite designers and writers hibernate between doing the things they show; they have all kinds of false starts, insecurities, and unfinished projects.

Continually try new things. Volunteering for stuff is worthwhile too. At the time, it felt like little of it was getting me through the existential angst, but I got through it, and so much of what I did a decade ago in some way informs what I do now.

Not a criticism! SYNSO has those kind of visuals too.

The lineup I curated (with Gamer Network and RPS) for Rezzed is now public. Really happy to have Gone Home in there. It's kind of interesting how many developers email me assuming this is just free commercial expo space, backed by a review process comparable to that of consumer-facing specialist games press. Curation is a very different thing.

I don't disagree, but would like to expand on that a little: some of the most interesting work being done at the moment is by groups choosing to make that work explicitly non-consumer driven, e.g. One Life Remains, Babycastles, Glitchnap. That the spectrum for things to be made is so extremely wide is precisely why I think videogames are amazing, and I wrote a little more about that here.

Yes, so: The publishers and platform holders win either way. Also, bricks and mortar games retail shrinks or dies.

This is becoming the thread where we all find out the weird medical shit we don't normally talk about is actually perfectly normal medical shit.

New Boards of Canada! Watching the bit from 3:30 makes my head melt the same way listening to this does.

Kind of in agreement with Ben (Meaning I don't want to put words in his mouth): The first series of the IT Crowd was bobbins, and it improves a hell of a lot after that.

Cool kids!

I seem to have inherited the photic sneeze reflex from my dad. I really like it. Also, when I was a kid I discovered that if I close my mouth, hold my nose and blow hard enough, the inner corner of one eye emits air with a faint, high pitched squeaking sound. Presumably it's the tear duct, but I stopped doing it pretty quickly because it felt like something might rupture. Freaking my brother out by doing it into a mic was fun though.

I got those a lot as a teenager. I found drinking more water seemed to stop them from forming, and haven't had any in years. Same! Colours look so much warmer with my left eye.

It's a fantastic long music video, terrible film. I went in with that expectation and liked it as a result.

It's going to be "The Little Book of Calm: Kindle Edition"

Had to be done.

Best One of my housemates gets really addicted to RPGs, even bad ones. Watching him thrash through Two Worlds was painful.

I ran Bit of Alright for the second time last Friday, and it went really well. The venue was a motherfucking converted fishing trawler, moored amidst the skyscrapers at Canary Wharf. Here are photos. Someone ran a session titled "Jam Game Jam: A Game Jam With Jam", which probably makes no sense to Americans because you call it jelly.

A friend used a deck of playing cards to introduce me to Skull and Roses recently, which is very simple to learn but ultimately extremely complicated. In a good way. Few games create such tense moments with such regularity, but when someone has put the bidding up to ridiculous numbers and is about to flip their last card, no one seems to breathe. Before I bought it a bunch of people said to me that it's expensive for a bunch of coasters in a box, but I wanted to support the designers and it's nice to have a proper set.

Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal is one of many reasons that Vine is a great thing.

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