Hugh MacLeodpragmatically notes, “The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else.” Leading designer Joshua Porter, also known as Bokardo. In his post,Finding Innovation in Design, he describes the AOF method of ...
My disdain for memes as social-political discourse is well documented. So I was surprised the other day to encounter one that I found to be fairly effective. At least on the first pass. Then my analytical mind kicked in, and I quickly found the meme was perfect–at helping me identify s...
but your female characters should be about far more than their looks. Don't cater to "pretty" PCs any more than you would to "plain" ones; in fact, if you want to make things realistic the truly beautiful ones should have a lot of problems blending in and shaking...
The girls appeared to have it all together (I know they don’t, but they do appear that way). And the popular boys seemed to know exactly what to do. They can talk sports to each other, they brag about their romantic exploits. They never get in trouble for stupid reasons like ...
I explained to Phil that it was not 1923 and I didn’t live in a tenement with my extended, seamstress family. As a result, I did have my own bathroom. He almost seemed convinced that I was telling the truth. So – we met each other out earlier that evening with a few of my fri...
When I hear about shopping, what other people said, and the various examples of small talk, not only do I tune out, my social battery starts draining immediately. Other introverts will relate to this one. It’s when the extroverts get going and talking is sort of a competition, where th...
The beta dropped, and the meme was pretty obvious - give Willow hundreds of embers and lolflamethrower.gif I think this *did* expose a design flaw for Willow's skill tree. Letting her use the spells as a primary attack is a bit too much. Not just mechani
RADU JUDE: Well, always, any work of art, or, if you will, any work of communication… Umberto Eco wrote extensively on this. A lot of things are left out or are approximated in communication. Eco used to say that he finds it a miracle that we can understand each other. If you tak...
Dr. Dre came out to Inglewood to do his songs “Still D.R.E.” and “California Love.” He also helped on the first playthrough of “Not Like Us,” kicking the song off with the “I see dead people” line. That’s gotta hurt, Drake. Kendrick x Dr Dre - “NOT LIKE US” This...
– have sex with each other, instead of with our normal same-sex partners, as we would have sensibly preferred. They forced us to swear allegiance to boring heterosexuality and commit to maintaining homophobic attitudes. We tried to resist, but what could we do?