FerretBrain

2010-07-28 16:34 - Games. UR Doin It Wrong - link

Seriously? Guys catcalling women in the streets is a sign of *female power*?

It's a depressingly common mentality, unfortunately. It's all part of the whole "if a woman tries to look nice it's because she wants you to not...

2010-07-27 11:54 - Games. UR Doin It Wrong - link I'd thought it was originally free-in-browser, but could be entirely wrong on that.

2010-07-27 11:08 - Nano Redux: So Near and Yet So Far - link Hiya! We generally don't object to people commenting on old articles (we're a stubborn lot around here, so it's not like our opinions change much). I absolutely see the appeal of "How To Write X" type books, if only because they tend to b...

2010-07-27 00:05 - How Many Bites Until It Starts to Suck? - link The general rule with threes is that they're either the worst part of the series (every marvel trilogy ever made) or the best (Indiana Jones, Back to the Future).

2010-07-27 00:03 - Games. UR Doin It Wrong - link

at the same time, I can't see past the fact that this is a shitty game to any of the "good stuff" underneath

I think the difference between "Hey Baby" and The Path is that Hey Baby isn't actually trying to be a video game ...

2010-07-22 14:41 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Eleven – The Final! - link Arthur I've told you this a hundred times, there is *no such writer* as Dickens. I just hypnotized you into believing there was.

2010-07-21 18:57 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Eleven – The Final! - link Bearing in mind that I read The Woman In White back in my University days (so the early 2000s) and haven't reread it since, I'd say a couple of things in its defense (and for what it's worth I'm eschewing spoiler tags here because I find them clunky, we're...

2010-07-20 14:42 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Eleven – The Final! - link I actually had much less of a problem with her. She does terrible things, but I think they're kind of understandable, at least within the context of a person who lives in a world that is itself deeply broken. I mean to my mind it sort of undermine...

2010-07-15 15:33 - A Series of Interesting Choices - link Yeah, something I've found is that the games suffer rather a lot on replaying. They're much more linear than they seem at the start, a lot of the choices are fake, and the consequences of a lot of your choices are minor. They're still fun though.

2010-07-13 19:11 - Garth Ennis Is A Hack - link I think the thing about abbreviating "superhero" to something like "cape" or "supe" (did Watchmen use "mask" or am I making that up) is that it highlights the fact that this is an EDGY SERIOUS WORK OF FICTION about EDGY DARK CHARACTERS not some KIDDY THING...

2010-07-08 12:12 - Tokens, Lampshades, and the Trouble With Deconstruction - link

Anyone with the right look and skills should be considered for any role.

I think this is the crux of the issue (and again this might get a bit long). For many years, to a white audience, a man in blackface had the...

2010-07-08 00:47 - Tokens, Lampshades, and the Trouble With Deconstruction - link

But I might be misunderstanding why exactly people are angry about it.

I'm not really qualified to speak on behalf of People With Disabilities, but if I had to explain why I *think* people are so upset about it, it would b...

2010-07-07 10:28 - Tokens, Lampshades, and the Trouble With Deconstruction - link Obviously it's great that your friend's landed a part in the series, but I'm a bit uncomfortable with his complaining about people criticizing the show. He's entitled to his opinion of course, but so are other people. I have absolutely no doubt th...

2010-07-06 11:50 - Games Are Not Art - link

Yes, but there's a necessary but unstated assertion there: 0. Tracey Emin's bed is art. And the problem is that it isn't, which makes the rest of the argument faulty. The bed isn't the art, the bed is just a component of a wo...

2010-07-06 11:28 - Tokens, Lampshades, and the Trouble With Deconstruction - link Hiya, welcome to Ferretbrain. The whole dream sequence thing is just wrong on every level really isn't it? It seems like the producers genuinely did believe the fact that Kevin McHale *isn't* a wheelchair user somehow made him uniquely qu...

2010-07-05 13:08 - Games Are Not Art - link @webcomcon

Defining terms is clearly not in the cards, as far as this discussion is concerned.

No, it's not. The reason it's not is because defining "art" is functionally impossible. You cannot cre...