What you do if you want to write an article about Dani Buten is you write an article about Dani Buten. The most fundamental bigotry in this piece and in your subsequent comments is that you act like calling her Dani and using her preferred pronouns is a “discussion” of her identity that transforms the entire piece into one on “trans stuff.” That transformation is happening for you alone, inside your mind, where the rest of us don’t see it. What you’ve told us is that you feel entitled to deconstruct her life and her identity and decide, for yourself, which bits are or aren’t valid. You’ve told us that you think Richard Garriott and Bill Budge are worthy of being called by their own names and you have judged that Dani is not.
Anyway, the tone and the language of the trans talk in these comments is some seriously clueless 1970s TV movie shit and it’s actually possible to both cling to your old video game obsessions and engage with actual living human beings (even the ones you haven’t tried to understand) but w/e, I just wanted to point out how lame this all is and I don’t want to mislead you into thinking we’re going to have a “dialogue” now.
Confusion is Sex takes me back to dark, dark, darkness in a year when I’d put it on practically every time I got in the car. Two years ago, I’d have wanted to switch it off.
The novel pleasure of touching, with your bare hands, something that’s lost the ability to hurt you.
HOWLING DOGS CONTINUES THE SWEEP
howling dogs won Best Story and Best Writing in the 2012 Xyzzy Awards
and j chastain’s rat chaos won Best NPC for New Rat City
it was held in a MUD so me and j got to explore a little text world (~CYBERDATE~)
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi (Hausu)
Very nice Q&A + screening with him last night at Cinefamily theater of Los Angeles
Old short films & tv commercials
Cowboys/glamor/cowboys/glamor/cowboys/glamor. Symbols burned into collective unconscious through mass generational media consumption. Not my generation. Scenes in 80s movies where people are watching TV and crying at 30s movies. What? How did that happen? The oldest movie on TV is X-Men.
Games dominate my generation’s collective unconscious. The archetypes they have given us are different from Hollywood’s idealized human images; they’re the idealized, inhuman systems, perfect digital economies, sealed zero-sum Microverses. Our heroes are the status bars and minimaps and shops with bottomless inventories, and we seem to be far more effective at inscribing these tools for affecting the appearance of order and control onto interactions throughout our daily lives than most anyone was at growing up to be cowboys or space explorers. Those dreams were predicated on the existence of a frontier in a time when there was no more land to seize. Our dream is abstract, malleable, and adaptable, indifferent to who or when or where we are; it’s that we can carpet our lives with enough meters and counters and notifications and achievements that we can play pretend we’re glimpsing the skeleton of the world, finding signs that there are rules, there’s a way to go, there’s a way we can win, there’s a natural equilibrium that ensures this place will still be here tomorrow as surely as Hyrule will load from a cart. The banking app is nestled among other games.
I realized I missed reblogging thing and have therefore made a counterfeit tumblr for reblogs
The only gaming community site I’m interested in is the one where we collectively recall our puzzling fixation on the bodies in Super Spike V’Ball, our arousal at being shredded into chunks in Skate or Die’s “Downhill Jam,” that time we masturbated while we watched Yoshi repeatedly submit to punishment and death at the hands of Magikoopas (it was an autoscrolling level.)
http://gamejolt.com/blog/interview-the-catamites/32/
Read this cool interview with intensely radical game maker “thecatamites”
Read it
a talk i did with terry cavanagh about cool games, queer creators, diy, curation, and fuck capitalism
