Or do they restore color to the world inEpic Mickey(2010)? However one looks at—and does—it, games bear an alternative to how one controls themselves and shapes their environment as they go about their real lives. Digital escapism, after all, isn’t just about leaving the real world be...
"Give me some of that vibe." Over the course of the next couple of weeks, I started recording "Grateful" and trying to do some more weird effected stuff and some electronic pop-influenced stuff. The lyrics are about my girlfriend. Over the course of our relationship, I would...
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They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you."
While I totally understand why an employer would want to ensure their top-level employees are in top-notch health, there’s still something about the concept that feels wrong to me. Like an invasion of privacy. Then again, North American employers often do health checks and/or apparently ...
When I say that “I am a solo-dev. I do everything myself!” I will have a bunch of people coming in arguing how that devalues labor, robs others of credit (even though nobody else is working on this stuff but me… there are literally no others), and th...
"I like remembering stuff." He goes silent then, for a long beat. "Me too, Lanny," I say finally, and there is a deep breath on the other end of the line. Then Lanny starts another story about Savage and Steamboat, and we talk for a little while longer....
They’re still pretty weird about it. At the time what I did was I had a friend who really liked the project. He posted it on Reddit. I told him to point his URL towards the Shopify website instead of the Kickstarter project so that people could buy multiples over there because it ...
I'm curious to go back to the Lil B thing. What sort of parallels do you see between his approach and what you're doing? Because a lot of what he's doing is made up or improv or really reactionary. It's not this studied, perfect thing. Because I came up in the ‘90s, w...
11. Chet in 'Weird Science' (1985) The late Bill Paxton gradually revealed a talent for softer-spoken types in his later career, but in his prime there was nobody as adept or hilarious at playing countrified, bullying goofs with all the internal fortitude of Jell-O. As gun nut older br...