"Just to clarify, the premise for the game is sick, there’s no doubt about that. The furor that continually crops over it each time a country ‘discovers’ it however is bizarre, as are the subsequent attempts to scrub it from the Internet. Rapelay is definitely a uniter, in that it has virtually zero backers (other than Penn Jillette perhaps), making it the ultimate safe target for attack."
I now use the Read It Later extension on my iPhone for long pieces, so just as soon as I see Tim Rogers’ byline anywhere, I tap tap tap, and his editorial is all sync’d up with my iPhone.
In which I admit to being a childless, paranoid cat lady. For a split second as I was editing, I thought I’d actually typed “gamers who are scared of dying,” and then I started thinking about dinner.
It’s OK! Don’t worry! I made sure to get permission to post this one. ”[H]ow people respond to the column says more about their own philosophies than it says about the column’s.” That is something I made up after spending 45 hours awake, and I am trying to remember and believe in it.
You are probably wondering how I beat all those custom toy websites to the punch! So I will tell you my secret: kodykoala and I both have livejournals, and I’ve gone into my options and settings and made it so that I get a livejournal email every time kodykoala updates his. That is how I am always first to know. Ta-da!
Jenn Frank ·
February 8, 2010 at 7:09 am
· Filed under Ephemera
Sorry about the lack of updates—I’ve been trying to build my stamina. But, um, in the opposite way. Like, I can build stamina by never posting anything. Or something.
Jenn Frank ·
January 16, 2010 at 3:21 am
· Filed under Ephemera
05/26/2010 update: So a newer, better, EVEN LONGER, revised version of this hokum will allegedly be published in issue #1, the ‘No Fun Issue’, of Kill Screen Magazine. I’m very proud. Please avoid this version and read the longer, better one! Thanks!
I’m disappointed I haven’t been able to actively participate in any Bayonetta discussion—I kind of haven’t played the game, so I have no fully formed opinions, here.
But that won’t stop me from posting a long stream-of-consciousness with squirrelly punctuation in the middle of the night. No sirree!
The ongoing Bayonetta dialogue reminds me of a short conversation I had on a patio deck at a casual (birthday?) party maybe a year or two ago. I don’t remember which editor of what website I was talking to (and that’s just total laziness on my part, because I could just google around until I find his piece and byline), but he wanted to talk to me about his pick for Video Game Character of That Year.
And, for this editor, his choice had come down to two characters, each of whom he admired. There was Faith Connors (Mirror’s Edge) and—he excitedly told me this—“You!” (Fallout 3). And he could not wait to pen this article, because Fallout 3’s “You!” had thrilled him, you know, not only as a critic, but as a gamer.
I could totally get where he was coming from. In 2006, for instance, Time absolutely got it right when the magazine named “You!” the Person of the Year. I think the magazine did something really smugly stupid, too, like a shiny, mirrored cover that reflected your own face, which invited a lot of eye-rolling.
Tiff Chow: "Personally, I don’t buy it. Bayonetta is pure camp to me, which well explains the extremities of everything from her disproportionate body to her saucy one-liner dialogue. Because of this campiness, I can’t even begin to think she is a character of ‘substance’ to any degree."
Kevin Bunch ·
December 30, 2009 at 11:39 am
· Filed under Places and Events
I live in the Metro Detroit area. It isn’t particularly well known as being a mecca of gaming, but we do have one of the finest, and weirdest, homages to gaming’s past within our lands.
The following is an interview I did with the business’s proprietor back in 2007. I wrote an article about it, but wasn’t writing for anything covering the beat. Having just found the article, however, I’ve touched it up a bit and provide to you the story of this odd little place tucked away in the suburbs of Farmington Hills.
Marvin Yagoda is a busy man.
Dressed in an off-white shirt and suspenders, Yagoda is moving all over the place as children and adults both crowd his workplace, Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum.
“I’ve got three birthday parties today,” he tells me. He is working on a small television displaying the tale of the world’s tallest man.
And, for this editor, his choice had come down to two characters, each of whom he admired. There was Faith Connors (Mirror’s Edge) and—he excitedly told me this—“You!” (Fallout 3). And he could not wait to pen this article, because Fallout 3’s “You!” had thrilled him, you know, not only as a critic, but as a gamer.
The following is an interview I did with the business’s proprietor back in 2007. I wrote an article about it, but wasn’t writing for anything covering the beat. Having just found the article, however, I’ve touched it up a bit and provide to you the story of this odd little place tucked away in the suburbs of Farmington Hills.
