April 10, 2010

I’m not as bad as research as I thought.

I’m working on my paper for Research Methods, of course. It’s a horrible job, and I feel like I suck at research. It’s painful, and I’m bad at it. I like reading a good theory, and I like synthesizing it into my own thought process, but the whole finding relevant works bit? I hate that […]

April 9, 2010

Obligatory “I touched an iPad” Post.

Every blog has to have one of these, right? Sure. I played Flight Control for a few minutes, and typed some words. First off, Flight Control was one of those games that I should have played before, but never had, and honestly, I can’t understand how it could work on a tiny device. It was […]

April 8, 2010

I had no idea that bullet time was actually “Gangsta Fire Mode.”

50 Cent: Bitch Stole My Skull is a great game. Okay, let me explain. 50 Cent: Get on that gun, 50! is a blast to play. It’s ridiculous, and it actually plays well, unlike another “bad” game I’ve been playing recently *cough*DEADLY PREMONITION*cough* Seriously, this game is 50 Cent, writing fanfiction about himself. Every person […]

April 7, 2010

Art Game Alert: If I could type out an appropriate modem noise, I would.

Thanks to Evil Trout, one of the main individuals behind the very awesome Forumwarz, which you know I love, I was able to learn about a small indie game called Digital: A Love Story. It’s completely fantastic. I mean, sure, it’s a little cheesy, but you would expect that from such a title. But it’s […]

April 6, 2010

Sometimes the most boring games are pretty nice.

There has to be a million cool games on the App store, surely. I mean, they’re completely impossible to find, but if I could find them, I bet they would be really great. Sometimes, I start looking around, just trying to find things. Part of me doing this made me download, completely at random, a […]

April 5, 2010

Words Written While Being Lost in The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies

I’ve been reading scholarly essays on The Dude all day today. They constantly put him forth in many roles: slacker hero, seeker of the holy grail, noir detective, but in all of them, he is so completely, and unmistakably The Dude. These interpretations don’t change the character: they can’t. The Dude is the The Dude. […]

April 4, 2010

Obligatory Easter Post

The last class period before Easter, I wrote on the board, on the schedule for Easter break, “Eat a Cadbury Egg. Write a response.” Of course, I’m the kind of person who would do that, but my class found it a little less funny. In any case, it’s egg-finding day, or magical rabbit with a […]

April 3, 2010

Similar Outcomes: a reading of Andrew Ryan and Sophia Lamb

This post has Bioshock and Bioshock 2 spoilers, so keep that in mind if you read on. Brer asked me, as I started playing Bioshock 2, to keep an idea in mind: Is the game being nicer to Sophia Lamb, and her philosophy, than it was to Andrew Ryan? This is a loaded question, of […]

April 2, 2010

Now with more Bio AND more Shock!

Most reviews of Bioshock 2 that I have read start with the fact that this is a sequel that did not need to exist and, honestly, since that’s the elephant in the room, I’m not going to be any different. This game did not need to exist. Bioshock was a neat, near-perfect package that said […]

April 1, 2010

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH HAHA HAH! AH HA HA HA ! HA! HA! Humor.