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Blunt force trauma to the back of the skull when I was 14.
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A tremendous compliment! Thank you :)
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I'm cynical about videogames because it's just become this machine now. Virtually nobody is interested in making interesting or unique games. Everyone is so concerned with their bottom line that they're too busy crapping out annual carbon-copies of the last successful game. The gaming press doesn't help either, artificially generating hype for games that wind up on their "Most Disappointing Games of the Year" list come December.
When we're kids, we play what we're given. We play what we have access to. We discover, by ourselves, which games are good and which ones are awful. As we grow up, we lose that. We buy what we want, and as what we want is usually informed by game journalists who are as much a part of the PR machine as publishing company's marketing teams, we end up disappointed.
I'm trying to recapture the purity of the gaming I experienced in my youth by cutting all that out. I don't read gaming news sites anymore. I've no idea what's coming out or when. I am instead discovering games on my own terms. It's very exciting. Every played Wizorb? It's on Steam and Xbox Live Indie Games. I can't recommend it enough. -
Steam is far from Draconian - most of the games on Steam can be played even if I can't get an internet connection. So long as the game is installed (obviously) there's no problem. Compare with services like Battle.net, that require you to be signed in and connected in order to play Diablo III or StarCraft II, or Ubisoft's DRM which will actively close the game if your connection goes down.
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I honestly don't know - I stopped following gaming news months ago. Nevertheless, I am dead inside.
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I was never a fan of Dungeon Siege, so no.
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It may shock you to learn that Valve are not, in fact, the entire fucking games industry.
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Hey, I wrote it and I feel wretched.
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PortsCenter is sort-of ongoing. I have been trying to make a second pilot but with absolutely zero resources it's proving to be a bit tricky. I managed to reduce the budget and I want to get another fundraiser going, but my publicist keeps telling me to hold off until [thing I can't talk about] happens. He's mysteriously gone very quiet this last month or so, though, so I don't know.
Fez is beautiful, like a nightmare I had when I was four. I don't know about Minecraft because I bought the PC version and I can't get it to work. Loving Binding of Isaac at the moment, though. Spectacular game, and worth twice the price Edmund's asking for it. -
Nice try, Larry. But I'm still not talking to you. You never use someone else's lip balm. NEVER.
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Depends on what you mean by "misuse". I haven't really been following gaming blogs and the like for the last two months - you should try it sometime, it's marvelous - but I have been kept abreast of the fan reaction to the Mass Effect 3 ending courtesy of my girlfriend, who finished the game last week and has been following the conversations about the game on Tumblr.
Blimey. People don't like it. No sir.
Other people - people who are, of course, stupid morons - genuinely owe them a new ending to Mass Effect. There's a petition for BioWare to make a new ending available as a patch or as DLC. That's not a joke. That's actually what people are demanding.
If that's not entitlement I don't know what is.
Of course it's entirely possible that game journos are using the term to describe, I don't know, criticism. Or waffles. Or the fifth planet in our solar system. I couldn't say because, as I've mentioned, I haven't touched a gaming news site in a couple of months. Which is great! -
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I'm still debugging it.
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Game Journos’s Bio
Sunland, CA
Fan of videogames. Not a fan of videogame journalism.
