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Doot Dee Doo

By Tycho – June 21, 2011

People are constantly trying to figure out what kind of “hat” LulzSec is wearing, specifically the color of this hat, which is a waste of time. For one thing, LulzSec has no head. For another thing, thinking of it as a group or an individual with agency is a fool’s errand. It’s a natural “force,” like erosion. And I don’t want any Goddamn part of it. Plus, now they’re going to lap gently at the base of our government institutions until such time as our democracies are reduced to a granular, wholly uniform beach.  It's the sort of thing that makes one stockpile seeds.

This Week's Villain

By Tycho – June 17, 2011

We spent some time in Child of Eden’s incredible fourth archive yesterday morning, Passion, and I don’t know if it’s a spoiler to say that you play the part of time in an interactive opera based on human technological achievement. If that happens in any other game, ever, I must have missed it. What we’ve got here is a shooter in reverse, one where you make every entity more beautiful with each shot. The raw clusters of instinct you encounter aren’t just corrupt: they’re so broken that they don’t want to be fixed, and they’ll kill you for trying.

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Book 7

By Gabe – June 15, 2011

Reprise

By Tycho – June 15, 2011

American McGee’s back, and Alice along with him; it seemed like an incredible opportunity to relive the days of yore.

No

By Tycho – June 14, 2011

Not really.

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PAX Dev, PAX Prime Panel Submissions

By Tycho – June 13, 2011

The cutoff date for panel submissions to either convention is the fifteenth of this month.  PAX Dev submissions go here, and PAX Prime submissions go here.  Plus, Early Bird registration for PAX Dev ends June 30th.  

The Hippothalamus

By Tycho – June 13, 2011

Also a true story. Well, a true story about an imaginary thing perhaps. The hippo was small, lying on its side, and its long tongue wrapped around it in an apparently infinite sequence of concentric rings. The exertion it took to maintain this creature was immense, and very near the limits of my ability; if not for the richness and amiability of his company, I might have consigned him to oblivion.

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Third Rate

By Tycho – June 8, 2011

Seeing first-run movies - without slurping them from the Web as a succession of isolated datoids - is something that doesn’t really happens.

Rein It In, Maybe

By Tycho – June 6, 2011

Seizing on the incredible density of industry folk just before E3, Jamie constructed the First Annual Child’s Play Invitational Golf Tournament. Our policy is essentially to look real hard at the kind of thing an actual charity would do, and then do that, in the same way that wearing daddy's coat makes one indistinguishable from a grown-up.

The New Kid!

By Gabe – June 3, 2011

If you follow my twitter than you already know the exciting news. If not, then get your ass ready for some exciting news!