The old site ate my second rant about Grand Theft Auto – part of what prompted the updating of the site – and considering the popularity (read: Rabid fanboyism) of the first, I thought I’d try to paraphrase what I put there.

Grand Theft Auto 4 is turning into something of a parable of the computer gaming industry in general right now. Now, I’m of the technically-minded persuasion – or to put it another way a long-time PC apologist – so I wholeheartedly accept the myth of PC gaming’s “Gold” and “Silver” Ages; namely the careers of Sid Meier, Will Wright, Peter Molyneux, John Romero et al and the companies Looking Glass, Bullfrog, Westwood, Interplay and LucasArts (back when it was doing adventure games) as inventors of the market and giants upon which the industry as a whole grew.

The market had a great number of things to say about game design, processing tricks and how us nerds saw the world in the first place: Insightful and compelling Sci Fi universes and not much in the way of human interaction. Like reading an Asimov series and trying to infer relationship advice from it. Read the rest of this entry »

Nobody likes you.

R-DS* Jindal’s retort was half McCain’s campaign message – “You should trust me because I’m smart enough to realize Bush was an idiot. And that’s why I’m running on the same ticket,” – and half Reagan’s campaign message – “Government is useless and needs to die. And that’s why I’m running for President.”

So I suppose this is the new Republican slogan: “Government doesn’t work. Put us in charge and we’ll prove it.”

*Deep South