Videogames
The much-celebrated Emily Short pokes the slumbering beast of Gamasutra’s notoriously mansplainy readerbase with the SHOCKINGLY provocative argument that Catherine, a game I described most charitably as being less offensive than it could have been (but not by much), has gender and representation issues.
“[Tea Party Republican] O’Donnell might have done better in that debate had she played a few more games.” I detect a Sassy Gaymer Friend spinoff.
What is ‘radical’ for games?
…And well, I wanted to link a design argument post here, but I can’t find it in my bookmarks now. So have the link I linked instead, which really should’ve been recced anyway as it’s own thing: “X is not a game.”
Also, choices.
Animation
What use the skill of mime to animation? Quite a great deal.
SCIENCE!
Watch Neil deGrasse-Tyson fanboy about meeting Carl Sagan.
First– we’re teleporting mice? Second– we’re scanning their brains?
Activism
Let’s start a class war. Start a nuclear class war.
Also, #OccupyWallStreet is heading after the NYPD. If only we could get NYT to stop focusing on spectacle.
Moment of Geekiness
