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Posted on 03.10.08 by Widge @ 12:55 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  As everyone knows, Gygax passed away last week. We gave our own remembrance in the last Weekend Justice. Adam Rogers, senior editor from Wired, published a piece in the New York Times that makes the following argument: Mr. Gygax co-created the game Dungeons & Dragons, and on that foundation of role-playing and polyhedral dice he constructed the social and intellectual structure of our world. And I think he makes an excellent case. Read the whole thing here. Thanks to Zac for the headsup. Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 02.03.08 by Widge @ 8:03 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. NewTeeVee recently posted a look at a new video meme: re-subtitling a scene from Downfall, in which Hitler (portrayed by the amazing Bruno Ganz) flips the hell out when he realizes just how screwed the Third Reich actually is. Instead, the new subtitles have him going off about football, the fall of HD-DVD, and even his Xbox Live account. Here's a snippet: Seeing history's leading megalomaniac strangely humanized in a road rage-esque outburst puts the world's important figures in a humbler light. Conversely, it puts the frivolities of modern day drama and format wars in an appropriately cowing context. I would agree. And nothing pisses off evil people worse than laughing at them. So... (Psst. NSFW for the subtitles. They're bluish.) Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 01.29.08 by Widge @ 8:06 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  I'll state this up front: I am freaking addicted to listening to Coast to Coast AM radio. It is the ultimate freakshow, what with people calling up and proclaiming their experiences with...well, you name it. I love the show. In fact, I have a theory that Art Bell and George Noory and everybody there really don't believe any of the whackiness and are just playing along. I think this because every so often you'll hear both of them slip and give a reasonable response to somebody seeing a saucer move across the moon or what have you, rather than a completely stunned "I don't know what it is but it means something!" Anyway, I love the show. I state that because this absolutely takes the piss out of the show. And it's hilarious. But then again, the whole call could have been a plant and George was in on it. Wouldn't be surprised. So. In the spirit of that call, here's some other callers we'd love to hear... Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 01.17.08 by Widge @ 12:34 am
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  Shouldn't we be happy about anything that makes people excited about language? Most assuredly. I mean, seriously: have you seen the lack of spelling skills amongst people online? It makes all of us here at Needcoffee.com look like freaking geniuses by comparison. If you are familiar with Scrabulous (which sounds like a description of a skin condition to me, but to each his own) then you know it's a thinly veiled Scrabble knockoff that was turned into a Facebook app and then blew up. It got people excited about playing the game of Scrabble, which is something the owners of Scrabble, Hasbro and Mattel, certainly haven't been able to do. I guess they haven't figured out how to market a Simpsons or NASCAR version or something. Anyway... Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 12.23.07 by Widge @ 5:08 am
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own. There's a bunch of people I know with new-fangled console games. Bailey used to invite me over to play Halo on Xbox so he could take satisfaction in watching me flail about on that retarded controller with its thirty-seven buttons, all color-coded as though I was the protagonist from "I Am the Doorway" and could see which one the green one was without looking down. Sadist. Doc invited me over to play Rock Band with his "band" earlier today. And it was fun, but never anything I would want to own for myself. More on that when I get time to write it up. Ken, though, is a bastard. He wants me to get a Wii. I know lots of other Wiivils who share in this plan to conscript me into the ranks of Wii owners. No thanks. I have a highly addictive personality. So even showing me wicked shit like this--a way to do 3-D headtracking that some guy figured out--will not convince me. You hear me, Ken? You're not convincing me! (Even though this trick is just cool as hell...) Direct link for the feedreaders. Check out Johnny Lee's website for more here. Nintendo really just needs to hire this guy. Found at Nintendo Wii Fanboy. Categorized as: Games
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