turns out doing this for a living is the same
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there’s that cultural gulf between a game developer and a student or prospective candidate, and it’s fanboyishness, and you can spot it from across the Moscone Center
turns out Gen X still has something to teach us about how much cred you can earn by acting like you don’t care
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CINCO TOYS PRESENTS: Curious cube!
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I miss arcades so much.
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this is extra funny to me because at one point i had proposed teaching a class at the NYU game center (that i didn’t end up going very far with) that was just entirely about Zelda 3: Link To The Past. maybe the kids need to get it out of their systems, lol.
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i think about how the battle theme voices in Shin Megami Tensei 3 are just the Mac’s text-to-speech Albert voice run through some filters. Also the Killer7 voice.
drink from the cup of the wrath of god to clear the frog from my throat
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when you start most harvest moon games, you don’t even have a place to shit. you have to dig holes around the farm, or go in other people’s houses (not that they’d mind after you pull out a big ass forgive me strawberry from your rucksack).
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counterpoint: me
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Can I guess from their arrangement in the photo which kid lives on which parent’s island
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got real excited that there was a Jaleco action platformer i had never heard of, at first
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who were these characters?*
what was there deal?**
where are they now?***
*the Gorillaz thrown into a large hadron collider and humanised (mostly)
**they had to game in the name of savings
***waiting in the attics, basement boxes and landfills of america for their chance to take their cut of that 10% discount
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The concept of Tengen and how it could apply to video games. I know the corners and sides are preferable, but the trade off between security/territory and influence is interesting to me.
I wonder what kind of failures would occur if the Go board had wraparound. Would new board design be necessary to prevent a dominant large scale game from emerging? Mirroring might be funny.
Edit - Toroidal Go
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Most of what Tengen did in video games is make Nintendo angry.
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I just realized that Tengen, like its parent company Atari, gets its name from Go.
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I often think, someday, someone I know who hasn’t played video games in like 15 years is going to hit me up and say “Mikey I have a decent PC and I want to sample a smattering of all the stuff I’ve missed while I was away”
And then I can stock their Steam library with a bunch of the Humble Bundle keys I’ve got, like a doting relative sending a care package full of food to a college student
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the metal gear solid thing of
“blah blah blah, yes, uhuh, yes. i will handle the assassination/coup/terrorist attack and get back to you. have a lovely day,… mr. president.”
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I say “…Mister President.” and “BROTHER!!” like at least once a week each
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