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It’s the Experience, Stoopid

Perhaps it’s how my brain is developing as an adult, but I’m finding that, more and more I crave story out of my games. Not just the story that developers give me, but stories that I create myself through the game. Read more

Geekery 2011 – Otakon Follow-up

Otakon was awesome and one of the things that always strikes me – one of the guys who came with me had the same thought: Where are all of these people outside of conventions like this? And more, which I noted, if people are this enthusiastic about Anime and eastern Asian culture, why is it that in the normal course of the day we don’t see this sort of enthusiasm? Read more

Product Placement. Or, How it’s Okay to See an Ad for The Zookeeper in Your Episode of Big Bang

I’ve been reading in articles and hearing in podcasts people denigrating the rise of product-placement in television shows. There are movie advertisements in sit-coms, car and phone placement in procedural dramas and cleaning products in comedies all of which, presumably detract from the show. I’ve even read that ad firms are adding things like flat screen televisions in the background of a scene to promote a product. What is this world coming to?! Ads! The ads are everywhere!

Big deal. Read more