cody @ halo4.isnotcanon.net

The ideologies of superiority/inferiority in these matters makes me so mad I have to go mow a lawn.

I'll have to have you over when the grass gets tall and talk about how doctor who is too British to be legitimately enjoyed, you are an untapped resource.

Yeah... well... That. Doesn't. Bother. Me.

Control your emotions, Leviathan, control them---

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Not saying all devs are off the hook, Phil fish seems to be the poster boy for this right now.

The ideologies of superiority/inferiority in these matters makes me so mad I have to go mow a lawn.

I'll have to have you over when the grass gets tall and talk about how doctor who is too British to be legitimately enjoyed, you are an untapped resource.

Which songs do the Shins do again?

And yes, you decided my outfit for the day.

Oh they just wrote some of my favorite songs. Do you like the Broken Bells also? If so they just announced a new album.

Ooooh, that's fantastic! Thanks for letting me know, I've been waiting for a second go - I just throw the first one in with the rest of the great Shins albums in my head. :)

"Vaporize". The lyrics have described my last few years. Hell, it's in the official Mayflower Soundtrack.

(We haven't gotten any others on Vinyll yet, but Chutes Too Narrow has been up on the wall till recently - we switch out album covers every few months to keep things fresh.)

Which songs do the Shins do again?

And yes, you decided my outfit for the day.

Oh they just wrote some of my favorite songs. Do you like the Broken Bells also? If so they just announced a new album.

It doesn't help that it's often used in an elitist terminology to refer to those who are true gamers as opposed to casuals or something. It's like a reverse hipster, another word I'm sick of. It's caught on. It's popular now to make fun of people with that term, and people have enlarged the breadth of the definition to use it to basically condemn anyone they think is weird or makes them uncomfortable. The ideologies of superiority/inferiority in these matters makes me so mad I have to go mow a lawn.

So anyway, if I do say I'm a gamer, I feel I have to say I'm an everythinger to balance it out.

Are you from Utah? If so what part (if you don't mind me asking)? Also I love the Shins. That is all.

My friend from college, we built some small game prototypes together (and are still working on stuff, though it's on the backburner at the moment). He moved to Salt Lake City a year after graduation, and so the studio, Commonwealth Industries, is registered in Utah. He's now making some other games with it under the Commonwealth umbrella.

But I have been there once. I saw some pretty water and rocks, got frustrated by a highway, then went on to Seattle.

Which songs do the Shins do again?

And yes, you decided my outfit for the day.

Working with "indie" game developers, I don't see any of this nonsense as accurate for such wide range of creations. People are using some documentary or scandalous news or the trend of labeling and hating "hipsters" to stereotype a games instead of trying games they haven't heard of before, often handcrafted by passionate and self-disciplined designers and artists, a range that includes titles that have just as great of chance of being terrible or fantastic as "AAA" games, which is another term stereotyped as much or more than "indie".

The pretentiousness is mostly on the side of the gamers and journalists.

So, resolving some cognitive dissonance?

The pretentiousness is mostly on the side of the gamers and journalists.

Ah, the people I don't listen to. I used to love my subscription to EGM back in the 90's and at the turn of the century (and still read those old mags from time to time), but I haven't read a game-related journalism piece in years, unless linked to from these (or HBO's) forums, and boy am I happier gamer for it.

Oh yeah... "gamer"... another word I hate. I guess I'm also a reader, comic-booker, filmer, paintinger, architecturer... If I was obssessed with gamers, I'd be a gamerer! And...

Working with "indie" game developers, I don't see any of this nonsense as accurate for such wide range of creations. People are using some documentary or scandalous news or the trend of labeling and hating "hipsters" to stereotype a games instead of trying games they haven't heard of before, often handcrafted by passionate and self-disciplined designers and artists, a range that includes titles that have just as great of chance of being terrible or fantastic as "AAA" games, which is another term stereotyped as much or more than "indie".

The pretentiousness is mostly on the side of the gamers and journalists.

pre·ten·tious
adjective
1. attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
"a pretentious literary device"

The brand of indie is most certainly pretense, whether or not it's of value or good is lost by the "genius visionaries breaking through the facade of mainstream blah blah".

There is a market for it, that's really as far as the thought goes for some.

Working with "indie" game developers, I don't see any of this nonsense as accurate for such wide range of creations. People are using some documentary or scandalous news or the trend of labeling and hating "hipsters" to stereotype a games instead of trying games they haven't heard of before, often handcrafted by passionate and self-disciplined designers and artists, a range that includes titles that have just as great of chance of being terrible or fantastic as "AAA" games, which is another term stereotyped as much or more than "indie".