I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “Azeroth” from The Cultural Gutter
The Mainstream Notices Us, Head Explodes
Forbes gets worried - World of Warcraft will create "offline political forces". Charles Stross' Halting State has a lot to say about this stuff, including a fun, opposing theory: we've never been contacted by aliens because they're probably too addicted to some advanced MMO game to worry about reality anymore!
The Long Road Back to Gaming
For the last nine months, I considered myself a non-gamer. Not a reformed gamer, mind you, but someone who just hasn't had the time to dedicate to playing games or keeping up with the industry. I had been adapting to the life of a new parent; I had been forever transformed. The days and nights were busy, and weekends were usually spent with family or trying to turn our house right side up. Everyone tells you that things will never be the same, and as an expectant parent you just kind of shake it off as if it's no big deal. It will be different. You'll manage your time better. Life doesn't have to change that much, does it? But it does.
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Imagining Robin Williams on Warcraft
Susan Marie Groppi reads the Warcraft forums so you don't have to, and muses on whether celebrities enjoy anonymity online gaming gives them or whether it makes them lose their shit.
When Spheres of Interest Collide
Why
people read what they read and watch what they watch has recently been of interest
to me. As a cultural consumer and producer both, I know that advertisements
and reviews are hardly the overwhelming factors, just the most reassuringly
quantifiable. Recommendations from friends have the advantage of being motivated
by passion rather than profits, but subjective passion can also misfire: as
anyone who's had someone feverishly press something into their hand and heard
"It's gonna change your life" can attest. That said, I have a few friends whose
recommendations have hugely enriched my life, people with shared sensibilities
that span genre and medium.
But that wasn't why I finally played StarCraft (Blizzard, 1998).
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I Am Woman, Hear Me Purr
When I got Sudeki for review, I sighed. An anime babe smiled out from the cover, her armoured boobs thrust forward and her arms upstretched as she cast a spell -- presumably on the teenage-boy market. The following two strikes were the five-star recommendation from Maxim and the name of the game company (Climax).
But I decided to invite Daniel Heath Justice to play it with me. I'd read his terrific story in the Girls Who Bite Back anthology, which features a full-figured female sorceress who defeats an evil arch mage with her sheer fabulousness -- and a few fashion tips.
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The Mainstream Notices Us, Head Explodes
Forbes gets worried - World of Warcraft will create "offline political forces". Charles Stross' Halting State has a lot to say about this stuff, including a fun, opposing theory: we've never been contacted by aliens because they're probably too addicted to some advanced MMO game to worry about reality anymore!The Long Road Back to Gaming
For the last nine months, I considered myself a non-gamer. Not a reformed gamer, mind you, but someone who just hasn't had the time to dedicate to playing games or keeping up with the industry. I had been adapting to the life of a new parent; I had been forever transformed. The days and nights were busy, and weekends were usually spent with family or trying to turn our house right side up. Everyone tells you that things will never be the same, and as an expectant parent you just kind of shake it off as if it's no big deal. It will be different. You'll manage your time better. Life doesn't have to change that much, does it? But it does.
Imagining Robin Williams on Warcraft
Susan Marie Groppi reads the Warcraft forums so you don't have to, and muses on whether celebrities enjoy anonymity online gaming gives them or whether it makes them lose their shit.
When Spheres of Interest Collide
Why
people read what they read and watch what they watch has recently been of interest
to me. As a cultural consumer and producer both, I know that advertisements
and reviews are hardly the overwhelming factors, just the most reassuringly
quantifiable. Recommendations from friends have the advantage of being motivated
by passion rather than profits, but subjective passion can also misfire: as
anyone who's had someone feverishly press something into their hand and heard
"It's gonna change your life" can attest. That said, I have a few friends whose
recommendations have hugely enriched my life, people with shared sensibilities
that span genre and medium.
But that wasn't why I finally played StarCraft (Blizzard, 1998).
Continue reading...I Am Woman, Hear Me Purr
When I got Sudeki for review, I sighed. An anime babe smiled out from the cover, her armoured boobs thrust forward and her arms upstretched as she cast a spell -- presumably on the teenage-boy market. The following two strikes were the five-star recommendation from Maxim and the name of the game company (Climax).
But I decided to invite Daniel Heath Justice to play it with me. I'd read his terrific story in the Girls Who Bite Back anthology, which features a full-figured female sorceress who defeats an evil arch mage with her sheer fabulousness -- and a few fashion tips.
Continue reading...