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SciFi branches out into games reviews, Tom Chick editing the site.
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Gentrification in NE PDX leads to black/white tension.
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‘nominees for the most unimaginative and boring architecture in the Twin Cities.’
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Stories from the earthquakes in comic form.
links for 2008-05-31
links for 2008-05-30
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Today’s dose of game industry cynicism.
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‘The reason Family Guy is so popular is the same reason that torture porn movies make so much money: there’s no clear agenda they’re pushing, the spectacle is in the offensiveness.’
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Once described as “the only comedian who can get away with laughing at his own jokes.”
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‘a group of tweeps who all follow each other’
links for 2008-05-29
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“To live like a human being on the salary that I make is very difficult in this city…. You’ve got to forget about brands, you’ve got to forget about, you know, what your mom made you growing up, and take what’s out there.”
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I hate arguments that suggest that if we just watched less TV, we’d suddenly funnel all of our free time into more “productive” pursuits.
links for 2008-05-26
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Evolutionary ALife simulator: ‘organisms reproduce sexually, fight and kill and eat each other, eat the food that grows throughout the world, and either develop successful strategies for survival or die.’
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Drawing a circumnavigatory self-portrait with help from a GPS tracker and an indulgent shipping service.
links for 2008-05-25
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Miyamoto touched on some of these things in his GDC keynote a while back: making the world safe for core gamers depends on making games part of our overall culture.
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Synchronous vs. asynchronous online gaming.
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‘industry veteran and former Eidos president Keith Boesky looks at Electronic Arts’ decision to stop giving quarterly guidance and focus on quality in its games,’
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NYT belabors the point that Miyamoto is the Disney of video games.
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Handy chart for those who can never keep track of their SPDs and EADs.
links for 2008-05-24
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Today’s dose of cynicism and despair.
links for 2008-05-23
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Does what it says on the tin.
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Titles with lower than 65 on Metacritic and less than 6% trial conversion to be dropped.
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The voice of GTA IV’s Niko wonders why SAG actors don’t get residuals for game work.
links for 2008-05-22
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After 1 week of a 4-week training period, Zappos offers new customer service reps a $1K bonus to *quit*, in the interest of weeding out not-really-into-it employees.