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the National Institute on Media and the Family has released its annual Video Game Report Card, which singles out Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as being particularly “killographic” and accuses video games of “contributing to the obesity epidemic among American youth.”
I’m just now getting caught up on the ea_spouse story that’s been making the rounds and wondering, “so what’s new?”
Apparently, the best way to shed the JailBlazer image is to find someone even crazier than you.
I’ve started writing game reviews for PopMatters, a very groovy “magazine of cultural criticism.” Also: notes on Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.
Along the way, I culled a few dead sites, and mercilessly purged a large number of feeds that don’t really interest me these days. It was a little sad, really, since I’d been following some of these sites for years.
Talking Head #349: “What do you think of when you think of Florida?” Everyone starts shouting at the TV: “Natural disasters!” “Disneyworld!” “Gatorland!” “Crockett and Tubbs!”
If I can get tetrises, that’s great; if I can’t, I don’t let it bother me. If I don’t get the pieces I need, or if a couple of gaps creep into the board, I don’t get angry and slam on the “Quit” key, like I might have in the past.