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  • stevenf.com – It’s 4 AM and — no joke — I literally got out of…
    "Multiplayer online Benny Hill. Please, game modding community, hear my cry." +1 to this, methinks.
    (tags: l4d left4dead games humour bennyhill awesome )
  • BBC – Adam Curtis
    "This is a website expressing my personal views – through a selection of opinionated observations and arguments. I’ll be including stories I like, ideas I find fascinating, work in progress and a selection of material from the BBC archives." Adam Curtis has a blog.
    (tags: adamcurtis bbc blog )
  • Have videogames and reality TV given us 'narrative exhaustion', asks legendary screenwriter Paul Schrader | Film | The Guardian
    "Storytelling began as ceremony and evolved into ritual. It was commercialised in the middle ages, became big business in the 19th century and an international industry in the 20th. Today it is the ubiquitous wallpaper of the postmodern era." I still think there's some separation of plot/narrative to be considered, you can't deny Schrader makes some sensible points.
    (tags: narrative media plot storytelling film paulschrader writing )
  • Tep Talk: Awesomely Bad Tattoos
    Yes, they are.
    (tags: tattoos bad awful horrific patrickswayze )
  • Making art from barrels, part nine – the johnson banks thought for the week
    "…the brief, in a nutshell, was to take a series of actual whisky barrels and find a way to express the vast lengths of time it takes to actually produce a bottle of Glenfiddich Single Malt." I found the results rather lovely.
    (tags: whisky art manufacture barrels type )
  • Bug Finder (Programming, Testing / Quality Assurance)
    "To state that another way, given a function f and input x, determine if f(x) will halt." AlanT puts out a tender on GetACoder for Turing's Halting Problem. The responses are entertaining.
    (tags: programming outsourcing humour turing computerscience )
  • Who Botches The Watchmen? » Murderblog 3D
    "Sweet! Quick time events? Combos? Finishing moves? It’s like they distilled Watchmen to it’s very essence. Wonderful."
    (tags: watchmen games comics licensing adaptation brawler bad wrong )
  • YouTube – Let's Play Plumbers Don't Wear Ties – Intro
    All of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. Made interactive. On Youtube. Horrible, barely "erotic", choose-your-own-adventure guff for the 3DO and PC. Don't click through.
    (tags: games plumbersdontwearties interactivemovie 3do horrible awful grim )
  • Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture
    "Just like the inspirations it cites, carry helps explore why we fight, and what happens to the people we send to war, all through the rules. The mechanics of the game work as well as the prose of The Things They Carried or the script of Full Metal Jacket in exploring life in the line of fire…" Sounds really interesting – games' unique ability is to convey meaning through systems, rather than prose, and it looks like carry really embraces that.
    (tags: games tabletop narrative carry indie mechanics )
  • Alistair.Cockburn.us | Nielsen on agile and usability
    "Just remember, 'There’s only us.'" Some good analysis; fair and even-handed.
    (tags: usability interaction design uxd ucd agile development web teams management )
  • TweetStalk
    "Sometimes you want to follow someone on Twitter, but you don't want them to know you're following them. We present to you TweetStalk ‒ the simple way to stalk Twitter users without having to follow them." Oh for heavens' sake.
    (tags: bad wrong antisocial twitter stalking inappropriate greasemonkey script )
  • Curmudgeon Gamer: Review: Mirror's Edge
    "A man can only eat so many cheap sniper shots, so many deaths by machine gun from over 75 meters away, so many attempts at a final tricky jump to a tiny ledge across a giant gap, so many degrading restarts… Sometimes I hate games so very much." Sadly, much of this is pretty true.
    (tags: mirrorsedge games reviews criticism commentary )

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