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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_150/4911-The-Myth-of-the-Media-Myth

this actually isn't terrible, even if harvey smith's soundbite at the end comes across like he's a jerkoff. (comparing a serial soap like desperate housewives to addiction in any sense is dumb, if not actually irresponsible.)

but what i wonder about, and i truly do wonder about this, is why everyone has to be included in the category of people who like games. it can't all be economic, so some of it is emotional. a need to be loved or respected? i don't know.

not every thing is for everyone. and that's the actual super duper good part of this supposedly fractured, horrible world we live in. you do what you want. i do what i want.

of course, in a perfect world people would understand that employing the state to enforce your choices over others when their own choices do not actually interfere in your life is coercive and morally wrong, but as far as this stuff is concerned (entertainment and the like) i think we're pretty close to ok on that. jack thompson is a joke, the moral majority is being reconfigured back into its original incarnation as a progressive christian left (with some systemic hybridity) and andrea dworkin is dead. art is safe. games are safe. they've learned the lesson of all the other major entertainment industries - every 4 years someone has to pick on you in order to keep their boots on. such is life, send in your donations and tone down the child murder.

but i guess my actual question is this: why are game developers, artists, students and nascent academics so desperate to be loved beyond their actual audiences? especially the academics - i don't think i've ever heard a film studies kid actually expect to engage the public in any real way.* and yet game folk still fall over each other, year after year, trying desperately to be loved.

*such is the similarity between monastic orders and academic pursuits. neither is meant to engage with the public in any real way.
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/958879,CST-NWS-mell20.article

gee it's almost like the powerful aren't subject to their own rules. weird!
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mishima_postpaleo_of_nippon/

Raimondo+Mishima = makes sense, in some ways, if you take his love for Putin-style Russian nationalism and Catholicism into account. Though the pairing makes me aesthetically uncomfortable.

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but i guess my actual question is this: why are game developers, artists, students and nascent academics so desperate to be loved beyond their actual audiences? especially the academics - i don't think i've ever heard a film studies kid actually expect to engage the public in any real way.* and yet game folk still fall over each other, year after year, trying desperately to be loved.


This may be amateur psychology on my part, of a really bad sort even, but I think it's some kind of nerd self-hatred thing. These people aren't that confident in their own aesthetics and won't be satisfied until everyone agrees that their hobbies aren't just a big waste of time. Hmph, "these people;" as if I don't count as one of them. But I don't care what people think about my videogame habit, since I don't know many "people" to begin with.

Strange that nobody ever says that reading is a waste of time, even though a good chunk of it is just that.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's not a bad piece from the prince of froth.

man, taki's rag makes me laugh sometimes:

To the dismay of her more enthusiastic admirers, this popularity doesn’t indicate total agreement with her “Objectivist” philosophy so much as it is a tribute to the author’s talent for telling a rip-roaring fasten-your-seatbelts story.

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Strange that nobody ever says that reading is a waste of time, even though a good chunk of it is just that.


depends on what you're reading, of course.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man, I was just about think that Raimondo was an okay guy. And then you linked that. Thanks for bringing me back to Earth. This just further cements that Rand was the Xenogears of the nerds of yesteryear. Atlas Shrugged must look good to a 15-year-old, but I couldn't get through ten pages without putting it away (the same with Fountainhead). There was something very comic book-like, in the corniest, most ham-fisted sense, about the way she set the scene in those books, I even considered reading on for the pure comedy of it all. Though reason won out and into the garbage they went.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

a friend of mine is trying to get me to promise to read atlas shrugged just so, when i make fun of it, i can honestly say i read it.

i do not think so. this summer i'm going to read up on game theory and try to teach myself soldering and some math. i don't know if i have enough room for cardboard in there.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no dont listen to them you know enough to make fun of it, so why read it?
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

out of an antiquated sense of fairness.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

look im telling you i tried to read the fountainhead and its unfair that they want you to read ayn rand in hte first place
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TIME TO RECYCLE MY FUNNY JOKE!!!!

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BIOSHOCK AND ATLAS SHRUGGED???

ONE OF THEM HAS CHARACTERS RENDERED IN THREE DIMENSIONS!
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it may be unfair, but life isn't fair.

after all, i read the murakami collection too, in the interest of fairness. and i like burroughs, whose characters are really just stand-ins for routines and ideas.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.justicefortracy.com/

in case you know anyone with 20 bucks burning a hole in their pocket that they'd just waste on anime or something.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

on that note:

http://www.wbns10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2008/05/21/foster_interview.html?sid=102

there's a joke here to be made about not following g. gordon liddy's advice, but it's a little obvious.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/57-Painkiller
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/12/20/

man, suck really was fuckin' great.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhex wrote:
http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/12/20/

man, suck really was fuckin' great.

http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/10/18/

God yeah.

I wrote a farewell to them when they shut down http://www.kisrael.com/2001/06/09

that site and word.com/pixeltime.com are my most missed dot com casualties.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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This look is to tech books in the 90s what shag and wood panelling was to recrooms in the 70s.


this is spot on, btw.

imagine what chrome kitchens are going to look like in 10 years. beyond all the fingerprints, i mean.

(on the other hand, i really like the late 70s avacado color. childhood brainwashing.)
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you know, after all these years, i'm still blown away at how shitty dragonforce is.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our bathroom is an odd mixture of aqua, lemon yellow and avocado. I love it.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that does sound soothing!
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://uk.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUKL2344657520080523
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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 6:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

they spent 2.3 seconds thinking up that headline.
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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://charleswjohnson.name/essays/libertarian-feminism/

agree or disagree, these folk have a good grasp on their history.
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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was doing a search on mentats for a Fallout thread, and found:


"... black mentats..."

Scroll down if the intro is boring.

I think "The Doom Projectors" would be a great name for a band.
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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



what curious quotation marks
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PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Too bad you need JSTOR or similar access... this is some apocalyptic shit that would be way
fun to discuss on the Fallout boards. I remember when this shit was going on.

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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

man, that is a totally 80s type of paper.

i miss my jstor access. Sad
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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--policeshooting-ea0524may24,0,4357668.story
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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



oooh creepy.

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126702.html
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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

there are ups and downs to being self-taught in a number of things. you learn in a natural kind of way, but you also miss a lot of things. i missed "don't try to catch a soldering iron that's been on for 10 minutes" and am now contemplating a life where i just play kalimba and maybe busk for change.
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Little boy: I want a Cinnabon for breakfast!
Dour mom: Now, Matthew, let me ask you a question. How many grams of sugar does a Cinnabon have?
Little boy, dejectedly: Seven.
Dour mom: And how many grams of sugar are you allowed to eat at breakfast?
Little boy: Fiiiive.
Dour mom: Well then, don't you think... [they go out of hearing range]

--5 Train

Overheard by: Jonathan Harford

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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://fallout3.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/fallout-3-more-from-tgr/

specifically:

http://fallout3.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/800x600_prop.jpg

fire hydrant? i don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm.

i still haven't played either Fallout, but i'm under the impression that they had a sense of humor, in spite of the setting, right?
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

absolutely. the fire hydrant thing is a bit afield, not like the ghoul harold and his tree (growing out of his head)

more music reviews, in which i talk about post-metal and why will oldham is ok with girls now:

http://dhex.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/isis-in-the-absence-of-truth-mouth-of-the-architect-ties-that-blind/

http://dhex.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/bonnie-prince-billy-lie-down-in-the-light/
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://i.electronics-directory.org/css/police/police_13.jpg
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



http://seorant.ath.cx/police/ladybird.html
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PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhex wrote:


oooh creepy.

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126702.html



Reading this stuff reminds me of RPGCodex, DAC, NMA, etc.

Except instead of being angry and bitter about games, the people are angry and bitter about politics.

Same poo-flinging.
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I cracked up at one comment, and then saw it was dhex's. There is something entertaining about a genuine "fuck them" coming in amongst a bunch of finger wagging and humph!ing. Although this did remind me why I hardly ever read the comment sections on websites - I don't like the feeling of wanting to choke someone on my weekends.
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The more connected you are to the real world, and the more consciously you reject the lure of the speculative ladder, the less of a willing dupe you’ll be in the pyramid scheme that’s in the process of collapsing all around us at this moment.

i think he's wrong in a lot of places, but this is one thing that cannot be stressed enough.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html
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Dracko wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html


Notice how there is no real attempt at sourcing.
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Redeye wrote:
Dracko wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html


Notice how there is no real attempt at sourcing.


I'm no jingoist about the USA's use of nukes at the close of WW2, but

"Why be so worried? The USA has nuclear weapons and has used them in the past, and without just cause."

seems a little dumb.
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Notice how there is no real attempt at sourcing.


Yeah, there is apparently a big argument now between the outlet and the agency that reported the picture as being used. The latter saying that they never indicated that it was anything other than an image used while the former AAAHHH IT'S TOO LATE THEY WERE RIGHTTTT WWWOOSSSHHH
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ugh. what a bunch of bedwetters.

and yeah hit and run's comments section is a fucking wasteland; the offshoots and outgrowths have been far more interesting.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhex wrote:
i think he's wrong in a lot of places

Can't be stressed enough either. Dude needs to have a long think about the forces behind interest rates and what that implies for speculation, for one. "Teh GREED$" doesn't cut it.

Also why arbitrage is really hard.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kirkjerk wrote:
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Dracko wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html


Notice how there is no real attempt at sourcing.


I'm no jingoist about the USA's use of nukes at the close of WW2, but

"Why be so worried? The USA has nuclear weapons and has used them in the past, and without just cause."

seems a little dumb.

You might find this a good read. It seems even the main proponent of "the nuclear attack was unjust" movement, Howard Zinn, is completely unfamiliar with the relevant sources. I get pretty easily annoyed by comments like that, because even though they're dumb in and of themselves, they also tend to throw their historical understanding behind people like Zinn.
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Dracko wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html


FYI for those not familiar with it, the Daily Mail is the British print equivalent of Fox News, only trashier.
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Swimmy wrote:
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Dracko wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html


Notice how there is no real attempt at sourcing.


I'm no jingoist about the USA's use of nukes at the close of WW2, but

"Why be so worried? The USA has nuclear weapons and has used them in the past, and without just cause."

seems a little dumb.

You might find this a good read. It seems even the main proponent of "the nuclear attack was unjust" movement, Howard Zinn, is completely unfamiliar with the relevant sources. I get pretty easily annoyed by comments like that, because even though they're dumb in and of themselves, they also tend to throw their historical understanding behind people like Zinn.


Theoretically, the attack could have been prevented [edit: which is a totally different question from whether it was unjust or not; in my opinion, the question of justice doesn't apply to WWII at all, the whole thing was just one big slaughterhouse without any redeeming characteristics at all, and if you do want to draw any lessons out of the war in the Pacific, then here's one: being practical (America) wins out against decadent romantics (Japa) every time, a sad lesson for nerds the world over]. The guy who wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" (one of my favorite books, btw) blames the Russians for not getting Japanese peace overtures to the U.S. in time (though that book was written in the 70s and lacked alot of the material available to researchers now; plus, the Japanese were mighty ornery at the Russkies for August Storm).

In any case, I don't think anyone's qualified to comment on whether nuking was cool or not without first having read Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's "Racing the Enemy," one of the recent and more original accounts of the end of the Pacific War. In his version, the nukes were neither deliberate malice against a defeated foe nor the magic pill that slapped those Japs awake, but something else altogether (like a lot of recent Japanese historians, he proves -- with ample sources -- that it was Operation August Storm, the Soviet's annihilatory advance against the Kwantung Army (which had started the whole East Asian War in the first place) which made the Japanese military junta lose all hope).

Also, seconding Scratch about that Tory rag.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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FYI for those not familiar with it, the Daily Mail is the British print equivalent of Fox News, only trashier.


and with boobs!

right? i was under the impression all british journalism has boobs, except the bbc, which just has those ultra-sensible female anchors with their ultra-sensible haircuts.
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the "i will actively campaign against barack" hillary supporters are the new "i'm moving to canada if bush wins."

pass it on.
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