Perspectives

A man in a corner is never going to shut up. If he shuts up, if he says what I knew I should say, "Call my lawyer," then he's going to the station, he's going to get booked, he's going to court. For a guy in a jam, there's only one way out, to keep explaining, hoping that somehow bullsh*t buys liberty. – Mack Malloy, Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow

Last week, PAX East came up again as part of the ongoing arguments to define what gamer culture is and should be. As someone who is often guilty of bouncing between being a snob or a borderline otaku, however, I came away with mixed feelings.

"Growing and working, thinking and gaining power, reflecting and gathering insights, the student justifies his life; the future may safely be left to its own devices." - Henry Merritt Wriston, The Nature of a Liberal College

A rush of anger and indignation followed my every death in Enslaved. With widened eyes and quivering jaw, I would glare at the screen and think, How. Dare. You.

At 3:45, I pad out to the living room and turn the television to SPEED before starting a pot of coffee. The pot's ready just as the feed cuts over to an overcast race track in Malaysia. I unmute the speakers and watch Formula 1 cars rolling off the starting line near Kuala Lampur while I sit here in the dark listening to dry English sportscasters.

If you’re like half the internet, your first exposure to SuperBrothers’ Sword & Sworcery for the iPad came through your Twitter feed. Someone you follow made a seemingly nonsensical comment, such as “We just woke a slumbering sylvan sprite from a curious nestbox surrounded by three rain-soaked songbirds. #sworcery,” or “We got The Megatome & we are the smartest.

As my general ranks-up in Shogun 2's Avatar Conquest mode, winning battles for Clan GWJ and helping it capture its first provinces, I'm spending more time customizing him and my army. I have a superb unit of peasant spearmen who have been with me since my first battle, and they now go into battle wearing a different uniform than the rest of their comrades.

Before I could stop her, the helpful 2K rep had steered me over to the Duke Nukem booth and put me in front of a demo unit. On the other side of the carrel, a series of encounters between awkwardly smiling visitors, a throne, and a quartet of breasts were immortalized by incessant camera flashes. Then the demo started, and I was shooting a big monster in a stadium just like old times.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

Why travel if you're going to worry about the same things as at home? You are free. You just don't know it yet. - Sophie de Bretheuill, The Last Express

Perspectives

The Interrogation Game

Hauling Down the Freak Flag

To What Use Shall You Put This Achievement?

Enraged

Racing Games

Sword & Sworcery

Shogun 2

Waiting for Dudebro

Zhukov Never Had It So Good

The Women in Compartment E

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