""My suspicion is that highly prolific artists - especially ones slagged off by cultural elitists - unknowingly present themselves in such a way that audiences recognise elements of themselves within the sonic iconography."
"I'm going to go on a limb and say that the Comcast connection is immaterial, and a more apt headline should read: "Two Dragracing Vans That Happen To Be Comcast Vans Cause Accident That Seriously Injures 3-Yr-Old Girl"."
"@NeoStarr: Well the failure to address the competitive aspects in gaming would be the fault of the "reader".
My analysis of the representations of terrorists in gaming, should I ever pursue it academically, would have to include the fact that you can switch sides in COTD4 multiplayer, since it is a fact of many games that in competitive multiplayer situations, the sides are usually split into the good vs evil characters from the single player experience."
"I've been entertaining graduate study in comparative media because I find the idea of studying games critically to be very rewarding and I imagine that the theoretical principles drawn from other fields, like literary studies, could carry over to feed game design and vice versa.
Here are some examples of critical perspectives on gaming that I think appeal to both mature gamers as well as academics:
I saw a blog post about the feminist elements of Portal that discussed GLADOS as a stand-in for a game developer/dungeon master."
"@uberwolf0: 1990 Nintendo World Championships.
26 were made and sent to Nintendo Power readers, meaning that not only is there a very small number of them, but they could be anywhere."
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