Social Gaming (As It Stands) is a BANE ON HUMANITY [GO/YCQMOT]
To the abovementioned small man and to others like him, to all the craftsmen of these mommy’s-credit-card-number-snatching games like Tap Zoo and Tap Pet Shop and Top Girl and what-have-you, I offer...
View ArticleOn Subtlety and Showing, Not Telling [YCQMOT]
Aspiring writers, artists, really anyone involved in media take note. Your audience may seem dumb, but they’re really not. In what universe does artlessly spelling everything out qualify as an...
View ArticleMore on Why “The Help” Is Whitewashing The Past [FB/YCQMOT]
There was no real-life book similar to Skeeter’s magnum opus; it’s a fictional flourish that feels like a college-educated white liberal’s wish-fulfillment fantasy of how she would have conducted...
View ArticleDerivative Art, Japanese Rock, and the Coming Rock Revolution [You Can Quote...
From Tim Rogers’ article on Japanese music and Sambo Master (so good, but long!): I told Sanyon, “Art is poison. The ‘art’ of the past — the words of the past set down for future generations to...
View ArticleNeal Stephenson’s Writing [You Can Quote Me On That/Bookmark This]
Here’s an interesting analysis of most of Stephenson’s writing by Matthew Bey of the Austin Statesman: But even as Erasmas and company pursue the answers to their cerebral quandaries, violence and...
View ArticlePA on GoW 2 Dialogue [You Can Quote Me On That]
Here’s what Tycho has to say about the dialogue in Gears of War 2: Still. There is a point at which “the rookie” says there are a shitload of grubs down there. Marcus Fenix corrects him, suggesting...
View ArticleYou Can Quote Me On That: Tim Rogers
If you know me or read this site regularly, you know that I’m a huge fan of Tim Rogers of ActionButton.net. I don’t universally agree with him, but I do universally love how the things he says about...
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