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I wish there were more games like x-com, but I don't give a shit anymore about appropriating the name. I think it looks interesting and I will play that thing.

You can pick and choose Audio recordings of the lectures.

I don't know, Forbin, I that is a great article. If a person holds to the Romantic notion of Art, then yes, games aren't and probably can't ever be Art. I had never really seriously considered it from that direction before. There are a whole lot of people who think that the past 100 years of Art is a bit silly; an aberration that will hopefully pass so that we can get back to the real Art of the previous centuries. I am certainly sympathetic to that view, but don't really believe it myself (but I suppose i'm biased, in that I was trained at a relatively Modern Fine-Art school where most teachers held the opinion that the Romantic definition was at least 100 years out of date), but it was still an interesting article, well-reasoned and the most clarifying i've seen from that side of the debate.

Vanamans' Disney story is crazy incredible.

There's the gdcvault, but it's mostly aimed at studios.

JOY Thanks for doing this guys

Yeah, that's pretty self-evident. Regardless of how wrong piracy is, or how best to fight it (or if fighting it is even a good idea), it is by definition not theft. I don't think it helps the debate at all when people equate the two. It's unnecessarily hyperbolic. I'd rather see an industry try to reduce piracy by humanising the creators and fostering a culture of supporting the artist, rather than trying to scare people and ultimately trivialising the issue with obviously false analogies ("you wouldn't steal a car...').

Watched it live. Saw a tiny Remo play Space Asshole while Jake and Famous looked on, accompanied by tinier dancing man. Magical, that is to say, interesting.

These have made me realise that while I greatly enjoy listening to those guys, for the most part I really don't respect their opinions, even when I coincidentally agree with them. The way that Jeff and Ryan think about games is especially alien to me. Still, they are entertaining dudes.

It feels ridiculous to say it, but mine is Minecraft. Of the proper, 'real' games, I guess Mass effect 2 or New Vegas. Did Call Of Pripyat come out this year? That was pretty great too.

Female Alex. The male portrait made me recoil.

Recently finished Deus Ex: Invisible War for the 1st time. Man, the reputation of that game being terrible is way overblown. It's for the most part pretty great. I mean, I hate the inventory, and the universal ammo was inferior to the old way (but not genuinely bad, just less good), but everything else that made Deus Ex great is there in spades.

This is great news. I challenge anybody to go read the plot synopsis for the last game and say that the slate does not need to be wiped clean.

I like a lot of the systems they introduced for conviction, but I don't like how they marginalised the non-lethal stealth aspect of the game. I played through Chaos Theory with zero kills (except for the disappointing mandatory pseudo-cutscene ones). I want that to be a viable option again. I like knowing I can murder everyone if I need to, but I enjoy choosing not to and having the game actually support that as a viable option.

Messiah throwback! (this looks awesome)