Actually, that’s a little misleading. I don’t intend to take a full-blown run at Cory Doctorow’s logic (this time) but my topic is connected to his ongoing crusades. There is a definite change in the way artistic products are sold to the consumer, and it’s a reluctance to abandon the archaic idea of property ownershipContinue reading “Expanding on Cory’s Wrongness”
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A Cheap way to win an argument
Roger Ebert has once again made a pronouncement that video games cannot ever be art. He is wrong, and his manner of defending his contentious belief is extremely irritating. Essentially, he relies on dismissing his opponent’s definitions of ‘art’, while doggedly using his very narrow criteria to label games as not-art. It’s really perplexing thatContinue reading “A Cheap way to win an argument”
Super Spy hates light
I’ve been playing a bit of Splinter Cell: Conviction, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at my level of enjoyment with it. Normally, I have very little patience for stealth games, primarily because I am terrible at them, and since the cause of my terribleness is my impatience, it’s a nice circular arrangement. Splinter Cell hasContinue reading “Super Spy hates light”
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