A note to Roger Ebert on art and video games.
I love Roger Ebert. He is, in my view, not only the finest film critic of all time but also a tremendous social critic, political gad-fly and general Fan of Life Well-Lived whose stories and commentaries on everything from rice-cookers to Russ Meyer films utterly intrigue me.
I hold his opinions in high regard. That is not to say that I AGREE with them all the time, but I find that he regularly displays an extremely difficult-to-balance mix of advocacy and objectivity in his writing. Objectivity, contrary to the notions put forth by cable news outlets and the like, is NOT simply the act of “presenting both sides” or of creating a bullet list of positive and negative aspects of the thing being considered. Objectivity allows you to (even DEMANDS that you) take a stand and defend your position, so long as you are willing to have your mind changed by a reasonable counter-argument.
Pause for Station Identification
The new year is well underway. I have a Post-it on my desk that reminds me to eventually re-purpose this site into something I actually post to occasionally. I’ll get around to that ANY minute now.
Maybe.
Anywho, in the meantime, you can continue to stalk me via any or all of the following means:
Standard caveats apply: Opinions posted are my own/do not represent The Mothership, may include salty language and/or bizarre iconography, not liable for fits of Lovecraftian madness, etc.
The cake is not a lie.
Set your Tivos to KILL! No… wait… RECORD! Set them to record.
Why, you may ask?
Because our episode of Ace of Cakes will be airing later this week! Details, details:
Episode DB0706L – “Big Red Squig” airing:
Aug 27, 2009 10:00 PM ET/PT
Aug 28, 2009 1:00 AM ET/PT
Sep 08, 2009 8:00 PM ET/PTDuff suits up to do battle as he and Ben whip up the craziest video game star ever… the Big Red Squig… and meet some uber gaming fans. Geof’s Pinto cake starts leaking fluid on its delivery run and Katie has trouble seeing straight as she does a cake for a video tribute at the Contemporary Museum. Geof clues us into the traits that make us his crack cake delivery staff and spatulas go flying as Video Duff goes to war, onscreen, against his nemesis, the flesh-eating Squig.
Make sure to tune in to see what Duff described as “the best cake he has made on the show.”
Mmm… caaaake.
Who are these two handsome devils?
Protip: You should come to Games Day Baltimore.
Rock-n-roll!
Somehow, I managed to forget to draw your attention to the fact that I am now – officially – a rock deity:
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That’s a picture of our office “garage band” – The Hamtouchers – hanging out with members of Blue Öyster Cult (they of “More Cowbell” fame) in our local recording studio.
Why, you ask?
Because we were recording a track together. An EPIC track. A track dedicated to Warhammer’s Slayers (newly added to Warhammer Online).
You can download it here, but be warned – it may melt your face off with ALL THE AWESOME.
ROCK.
Back… and gone again.
We got back from Korea in one piece. It was fun. A few pics here.
And now I’m in the UK for two days, then it’s off to Spain, then France, Italy and Germany before heading home.
I basically live off of Red Bull and Ambien at this point.Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download
Anywho, the point of this trip is basically to reintroduce WAR to the European press. Obviously, we’ll be touching on the new stuff we’ve added and upcoming content, but I intend to focus most of my time talking about the changes we’ve been making (and will make) to the Live game since launch. New, sexy stuff is fun to talk about, but at the end of the day we need to make sure folks know we hear their comments and are, in fact, working hard to improve them game continuously.
Hopefully, some folks in the press will take that part of my presentations to heart, but ya never know.