May 2011
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“LA Noire’s narrative is so immersive that it is jarring and disappointing when it forces you through the tired tropes of 3rd person gaming.” - davidseymour
“I’m not sure what they were thinking with this stuff, I honestly don’t; this dogged refusal to help the player. If I had to guess, it is this way because they didn’t want to do some boring, typical tutorial ...
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I’m off to the Boulder Farmers Market, and I’ll have to fight my way through the Denver Arts Festival (immediately outside my building) to do it. Honking my way past booths filled with fat suburbanites, zipper purses, and gloppy oil paintings of horses, mountains, and horses is not very appealing, but the farmers’ market is my favorite weekend tradition.
There’s a fellow...
I was up super late putting together another One Movie, Four Frames. I’ve noticed that all of my submissions tend to present a movie as a collage of secondary characters, some human, some not, which makes sense. I’m really world-focused. So, this time, I really tried to stay focused on the main character and express the heart of the movie as seen through the evolution of the...
WatchThis was the first time I noticed Steve Carrell.
So. When I was little, I was given a music box....
two thoughts
1) Someone should remake The King and I, put in an Arabic/American context. Would completely change the tenor of the work, and make it a hell of a lot more worthwhile than this cheesy bullshit.
A few moments later…
2) Oh my god, that would be so irresponsible. What is wrong with me?
People! The Rapture doesn’t begin until 6pm, duh! Maybe PST? There’s still a chance it could happen! Eeeeeeee so exciting *hop clap clap* AN-TI-CHRIST! AN-TI-CHRIST! Gooooooooo Anti-Christ!
Watcheverythinginthesky:
This short video by the Extra Credits team is ostensibly about why America developed the “first-person shooter” genre of video-game first, rather than Japan, but it delves into how America conceptualises / mythologises what a gun is and means. It’s a fascinating viewpoint and adds some great insight (at least, for someone like me who isn’t American) into why some Americans...
sharingtime asked: It is my dream to have a woman knock on my door with vegetable scraps and other things that can be put into a garbage disposal. I only hope that you are not joking and that I just have to open the door and you will be there.
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“Anytime we think the problem is ‘out there,’ ” Covey writes, “that thought is the problem.” Don’t concern yourself with external conditions… Concern yourself with how you think about external conditions. It is a technique for auto-hypnosis, a guidebook for remaking ourselves in a manner more analogous to the “human consciousness” that...
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The Aporeticus: Gossip, Negativity, Friendship →
mills:
Amazing Andy and I discussed something last weekend: the odd relationship between critical, reactive gossip, the unalterably private, and the formation of friendship. Consider the following, if you like:
This has always been true, but shared distaste is also safe, also performance. It’s a convenient shortcut to “us” versus “them.” But it does not connect us...
I think we worship Time the way our forefathers worshiped the Sun. I don’t mean that as a metaphor. All our rituals, from the way we structure our days according to the hour, to the rites of passage with which we mark our passing years, it’s all about time. It doesn’t have to be that way. It would only take a little imagination to change it all to match with the coming and going...
