The Gamer's Quarter

yo! i and a cohort of fellow-nerds have arrived. say hello plz?

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i'll be there! along with like, most of my research program. It'll be strange. But I'd love to meet/re-meet some of you folks, and I kind of know some things in the city, so I can something like: "I'd ...

wait, this one listed on imdb *isn't* the one being written by warren ellis? doubleyou tee eff mate

so i'm playing df again (despite being right at the end of finals period) and i've got what appears to be a gnarly bug that isn't mentioned anywhere. i've got lots and lots of coal, but no wood. i bui ...

dess, i'm so happy for you! congratulations Smile

does guildhall end up owning the work you make while you are there, or only the stuff in class? do you get to show anything awesome off?

hahah, ...

Half of the Wii's catalogue?

eurgh yes, i guess my theory is undone by the presence of silly mini-game games. thx for reality check!

games in which multiple players are playing different games, consecutively or simultaneously:

-wario ware
-some of those dorky FPS mods where one dude is commander and has RTS-like interface and a ...

wow definitely does
dragon quest

i haven't played temple of elemental evil but if it's missing the myconid rooms, i'll be durned.

- Gordon Freeman lied on his resume to Black Mesa and did not actually graduate from MIT and instead went to a community college..

note: the theoretical physics department at MIT apparently does no ...

episode 2 is making me cranky. i don't know how to do spoiler text, and have to finish some homework, but once it's ok to talk about it, i'd like to.

portal is gorgeous, i am giggling at the game, ...

i'm not much of a critic but i can attest to: dude's good at talking and also at introducing programming to non-programmers.

plotkin writes too, i think?

and yeah, he teaches the workshop for th ...

http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Jason_Devlin

should be able to find it through here; my professor (who btw is motherfucking nick montfort) sent it to me originally

-jd

i'm playing vespers right now and it is kicking my ass. if you like monks, the plague, creepy girls, The Name of The Rose or crucifixions, it is worth checking out for any of those elements alone.

we can't make a game that isn't brain training that won't offend anyone Sad

i'd hope the goal *isn't* to make a product that doesn't offend anyone, i'd hope that the goal is to present something int ...

thanks much wes; i spoke to shaper yesterday and i think it will work out. if something explodes, i will contact you.

yay the internet and it's many webs of peeps helping peeps.

so last night i sat and down watched dawn of the dead, and i realized part of why I;m so interested in this. For me (and I think for others, although I could be wrong), the history of the zombie movie ...

Christ, sorry for being a white established character, guys.

whoa. maybe i didn't stress this enough: There are a lot of threads that go into trying to either attack or defend the trailer (and the ...

dagnabit.

i done wrote a whole thing about this (http://dizzyjosh.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/zombi-part-1/) and there'll be more later;

i don't trust capcom to do anything particularly brilliant ...

My gf and I are driving from [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=9902+Wystone+Ave,+Northridge,+California+91324&daddr=Santa+Fe,+NM+to:st+louis,+mo+to:Chicago,+IL+ ...

swimmy i would make you a prize if you did that

note: i have a black mage (about to cast lit2) above my right shoulder blade.

also, don't nobody call me

Harveyjames, those maps are fantastic. They reminded me of a similar thing I used to do with my friends, which was to draw single-page puzzle fortresses and then challenge each other to figure out th ...

ask everyone you meet, especially old people and crazies, what up with MOVE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE)! **

where you going from? and T4A is pretty awesome, from all my friends' who've gone ...

dude tell me it comes with the wolf dreamcatcher!

seriously though that looks like a nice place (i even like some of the colors, but my mom painted my childhood bedroom to look like a castle, and ...

stealing formatting really isn't a bad idea. i can dig up a good one if you need it.

the big difference between CV and resume (other than the academic/prof. distinction) is that a CV has a record o ...

Anyway they changed their name from Glen to Glenda Adams.

there are really Glendas?

this world grows more magical every day.

edit: Oh, we almost turned a prostitute character into a transgend ...

i'll be in town from like early wednesday through sunday, and while i'll be zooming around town for meetings and crap, it'd also be nice to meet some of the locals and see where the least offensive pl ...

sorry! posted something, then felt bad and retracted it.

in the meantime, uh, look, a duck feeding koi! awwww

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/03/im_in_ur_pond_f.html

as a nerd who firmly believes that biology explains a hell of a lot about our deal as ppl and belives that hugging is a firm, warm sign of mammalian awesomeness, i still also hate on the naturalistic ...

great. just when i can handle basic 2-d inventory management, toady decides to bring in fluid dynamics. there goes my summer.

(zomg i cannot wait till i'm 60 years old and i load up dwarf fortres ...

that is indeed jay st. - borough hall.

the f train can kiss my grits though, lately it's been a serious nightmare. and not like when school comes back in (the only great thing about summer is that ...

aww fuck, the f train was all full of bullshit this weekend. (took me an hour to go from 23rd st in manhattan to carroll st friday night)

yeah, all you could have done on the way back was pick anot ...

every time jaffe opens his mouth (metaphorically, i guess?), i actually get more respect for him. that being said, leading the way in political debate/discussion/rhetoric/polemic isn't usually how you ...

does anyone else think the cure's 'a forest' is very psychedelic?

I don't know how I feel about that. But it sure is a good song!

no, i totally know it's a weird association, but it's one i fo ...

there was QA on it. it may have come in late, but it was there.

FACT: QA (as well it's more common but less referred-to brother, QC) more or less works on statistical principles-- you run a small ...

i'm not as good at movies as some of you guys but i have had three friends yell at me for showing them these links

shit shit shit alphaville and stalker and videodrome and rules of the game

no s ...

so this thing is pretty dumb. <cut lots of incisive reasons why PS3 Home blowzzzz>

while i think yr right, the cynical dog in me is pretty sure that despite all of its craposity, PS3 Home wil ...

my musical stuff lately has been all a mess.

hawkwind, the slits, and diplo's podcast (maddecentradio.com)

the knife and coil, too (basically i put the snow EP on repeat)

does anyone else thi ...

Hey dizzy, their master's program (MIMS) is the degree that my wife has (although it was called SIMS when she went there).

it looks like a really neat program-- the students are very nice (and wide ...

Still, something like what Microsoft is doing with XNA that would allow amateur developers to import content even on a personal level, would be fantastic but I have a hard time seeing Sony being okay ...

the class, btw, is the a graduate course in ludology at the berkeley school of information ischool.berkeley.edu). i have a friend who's in it and that's the syllabus he set up for next week.

and p ...

Week 7: Social Context Cues and Norms in Gaming (3/12)

Required Reading:

* Steinkuehler, C., and Williams, D. (2006). Where everybody knows your (screen) name: Online games as "third places ...

sup toups

i am very excited; i got in last night and on the train from the airport ran into some young 3D animator kid from new orleans who was in town representing the dudes who administrate or ...

so i guess i'm not making it into the convention, but I am thinking about heading to SF this weekend anyways, and staying through Tuesday. I would very much like to meet some of you people! Would this ...

do emergent characters count?

Erith Mistymirrors, from Dwarf Fortress:::

She was one of two guards in my keep, a little marksdwarf married to a mechanic who had just rigged up the floodgates fo ...

i might be making it out, at least for the weekend to chill and monday/tuesday for the SGS. Work won't give me more time off for it, and I'll have a place to stay, but I'd like to meet some of you vol ...

parceling decalogue out hearing that actually helps. someone told me early on that they were really interconnected and there was lots going on that I would miss if i didn't join in their marathon and ...

doublejumps as a rehash mechanic or a lazy get-out-of-bottomless-pit-yourself card
hey, hate the sin and not the sinner, i thought!

i guess at least in our heads we're avoiding some of that. the g ...

t dess: dangit, i know this is totally defeating the point of the thread, but I think you're right -- you can't suspend your inability to complete a section till the mechanic becomes clear, or fast-fo ...

is it just something cultural that makes it harder to play a game that's awkward for a good reason than it is to watch a movie that's awkward for a good reason, or do you think that comes from some co ...