March 2008
Rebels Without Cause →
Chile’s disaffected ‘Pokemones’ don’t care much about politics. They’re too busy having sex. (via Blogossauro)
“Considering my obsessive-compulsive tendencies, I can certainly relate to people...”
– Collecting: Sealed Games
Writers And The Game Industry →
A Rebuttal
“This so-called curse of knowledge (…) means that once you’ve become an...”
– Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike
The International Center for Bathroom Etiquette →
performing #1 and #2 in comfort and style since 1995
“Success in the free-copy world is not derived from the skills of distribution...”
– Better than Free
Together Retro: Defender →
first installment of the Together Retro game club (and my first gaming passion, yay)
Takeluma →
a sound symbolic, phonetic alphabet
Bow Down Before the Files You Serve →
@ ASCII
“Accepting a social network’s “friend” request should cost a dime. Even that tiny...”
– Merlin Mann (via eduf)
WatchPossessed (2008)
“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer,...”
– 1,000 True Fans
No More Heroes is not punk →
@ schlaghund’s playground
“No matter how well written, a story can’t make the game better. It can make the...”
– The Case Against Writers in the Games Industry
A Japanese RPG Primer →
The Essential 20 @ Gamasutra
“Most fiction is confined to the realm of false intuition; it offers us no...”
– Helen DeWitt
Why Super Nintendos Lose Their Color →
Plastic Discoloration in Classic Machines
WatchInternet Power!, Volume 1 (1995)
Q10 →
a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind
WatchInternet Commenter Funeral
MindPapers →
a bibliography of work in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and the science of consciousness
“There are new literacies that are not being understood by the older generation....”
– Henry Jenkins
“While we’re talking about ridiculous things, whose bright idea was it for me to...”
– An Open Letter from Mario to Nintendo
Lethal Beauty →
seven-part series on the Golden Gate Bridge suicides
Pu-Li-Ru-La →
classic dada action @ HG101
“Is this the plight of the geek? The desire to collect stuff of no vital value?...”
– Kevin Gifford
Sonic the Hedgehog Must Die →
@ Game|Life
Magical Thinking: positive psychology or psychosis... →
(via Blogossauro)
“To these kids, they often speak how wide open the world was back then, that you...”
– Stories @ ASCII
“Of course the Occult is just like all these political organisations in that it’s...”
– Tony Wakeford @ Evening of Light
Piracy & PC Gaming →
@ Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
