Babysteps in Belief-Building
“The richness an enshrined contradiction gives to a belief system and world cannot be understated.”
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Game Writer Applications:Samples / Portfolio
My blog on getting a job in game-writing was too long so I split it up. The main article is here. Okay, this is where the bullshitting ends. Everything above was about getting your foot in the door, without having to prove anything. But your samples are what you’ll need to get the actual interview
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Belated Guardian hagiography
” a wonderful book which makes me consider games more.”
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Dick’s Golden Man & LLMs
…Out of the countryside came a great golden, godlike youth whose extraordinary mutant powers, combining the world’s oldest and newest methods of survival, promised a new and superior type of mankind…
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Authority, VanderMeer
So, the second Southern Reach cycle book then (the previous book being Annihilation which was the source for the film with that bear). An alienated special agent is assigned to the base that borders the Area and struggles to achieve anything… Whilst the first book was obviously strange and excellent (though it is fuzzy in my memory,
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There’s nice.
“…a fascinating trip through the philosophical canon, showing how games illustrate key existential questions.”
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Playing video games? No, I’m doing philosophy | The Irish Times
As this week’s “Unthinkable” guest, Griliopoulos – the appointed “death” specialist of the duo – explains just why video games should be taken seriously. “Despite their problems, games are also educative,” he argues. “They can show us how to grieve, what the value of life is, how to prepare for our death and that of…
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Why don’t we just… use games for good? – Big Issue North
“With the advent of massive virtual worlds, games and simulations could be the dominant entertainment form of the 21st century. If they are to be so, we have to recognise and encourage their educational and moral components – to make them games for good.”
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Deathbed Recommendations
I had to go to the hospital a few weeks ago, so a doctor could put a camera up my urethra. There was a very small chance that what he found was going to be the death of me…
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My 2015
When people I’ve not seen for a while ask me ‘what are you working on right now?’, I give them this kind of glassy look that says ‘how long do you have?’ It’s this kind of look: //giphy.com/embed/13aSSyJaI5NkTm?html5=true This has been a hard, good year. Apart from coping with a new baby, I’ve probably worked for