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Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.

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a when did this become hotter than this meme comparing nathan drake to a zoombini
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I think there is partly a ritual function to these discourses: the participants are able to strengthen their identities as gamers and people who value games. So in this sense, the point of discourse is not to reach any concrete end (and base on seeing the same discourses for decades, there seems), it's really arguing as a means towards having the identity as gamer/game designer. Which... is not really an issue unless someone goes overboard and like, drags someone into it who doesn't care. (But idk... sometimes you do really want to change the world with discourse and it's hard to do that without encroaching on other beliefs...)
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Robert Altman quote where he says: Another thing Nashville signifies is that we don't listen to words any-more. The words of a country song are as predictable as the words of a politician's speech. When President Ford announces that the state of the Union is that we're solving problems in the Middle East, we don't listen; we don't read or pay attention to what he says. It becomes rhythm and music rather than meaningful words. No one can quote one thing Ford has said since he's been in office. Nashville is merely suggesting that you think about these things, allowing you room to think. Many people, I guess, want to know exactly what it is they're supposed to think. They want to know what your message is. Well, my message is that I am not going to do their work for them.
An announcement for a charity stream on June 6 at twitch.tv/rangedtouch
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The three protagonists of Mixtape on a car hood.
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A blog post screen cap that reads: But GDC took a chunk out of me, too. The expense, the scamminess, the desperation. I have not quite recovered. What I've seen makes me want to keep my life small and focused, make work by any means necessary on shoestring budgets and ignore the industry completely. I think for me, for now, that's how it needs to be. It's not like the industry has any answers or knows what is next. It's not like I see myself in the majority of these quickly-vanishing roles. Maybe my small, focused world is all there ever was.
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WG: Well, the thing that I would question in that theory as you paraphrased it is that women's bodies are the map; I think bodies are the map, and if, for instance, you looked at the sequence in Mona Lisa Overdrive where what's. her-name, the little thing... I forget her name... Mona! Yeah, Mona. TM: (laughing) Your title character, remember? WG: Jesus, I can't remember the characters' names... I never think about this shit. (laughing) That's what I think you gotta understand.
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