Beckett Warren

YouTube video by Justin Bellio Velvet Underground-All Tomorrow's Parties

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And velvet underground were a mid to late 60s band that had a profound influence on punk and indie rock. Hung out with Andy Warhol, kinda origin of "art rock".

Focuses on game as product of consumption, rather than of cultural impact.
And in terms of Nintendo Bump, the way fan culture functions as outgrowth of marketing campaigns tying brand identity to personal identity. I don't know what I'm getting at necessarily.

Video games are unusual among cultural objects in that they began as consumer goods not worthy of "serious" consideration. I guess film & television had a similar trajectory but I think there was a category of "prestige film" or whatever. So the default in criticism (like discussing what games mean)

So this isn't specifically about Earth Bound. But could Earth Bound be something like the Velvet Underground, a band no one cares about at the time, but everyone who did went out and made an important band?

Really enjoying this episode. But Chris something you said got me thinking about the way we think about videogames broadly, and how more than other form of expression, market dominance dominates the conversation. I've never played Earth Bound, so I don't have a strong opinion on how good it is.

@beauschwartz.com was listening to the latest Core episode. The rift between critical role at wotc goes back to the attempted OGL revision from 2023.

What is it?

You've got a show on wfmu?!

Breaking Things at Work In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countrysid...

@joshuawolens.bsky.social your piece on YouTube dropping ads in the most engaged part with AI assistance got pushed to me by Google news. Dig it particularly the link to a defense of Luddites. Peep my pal's book on how the Luddites were right, we hate our jobs: www.versobooks.com/products/688...

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You hack my email, or is my medium not as discreet as they told me they were? I will say the ghost microwave is better than when Hal Linden kept breaking into my cellar.

I don't like bananas, and I wish I did because they are so cheap. But then I realized instead of trying to like bananas and save a few bucks, I should moralize about how terrible banana agriculture is and its role in American imperialism.
Do better!

That's the kid who doesn't want to go to school, right?

@shanevsevil.bsky.social you have to at least let the people know their cat isn't dead, even if you aren't going to give the cat back. You need to ease their anxiety.

I listened to a retelling of the Water Margin last year and thought it would make excellent d&d adventures.

I've got it and want to put some time into it. Seems awesome. But I need to not have another big game going when I dive in

Saw that in the theater 20 years ago or whatever. At first I was like, we should get out of here and do some drugs! By the end I was like I'm never doing drugs again!
You ever read Selby's novels? Last exit to Brooklyn is awesome (movie adaptation of that is whatever)

There's some nuons on eBay and some games too. Pick some up as business expenses. Do a whole series that kicked off with a magazine read along!

Remembering Nuon, the gaming chip that nearly changed the world—but didn’t How DVD players and game consoles nearly combined to rock consumer electronics in the ’90s.

The story of project x
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I think we did find out that profit killed creativity.

One of these years I'll make it out

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