Filed under: Greg Stuetze
Is it just me or does DSM-IV sound more like a killer video game title than a psychological classification tool?
“I beat DSM-IV in three days. Sweet.”
Well, the AMA has recently made some interesting rulings in the realm of video games and video game addiction. Just think, someday gamers will be on disability for their addiction and you may have to call the cops on kids huddled in your alley playing PSP.
As if our world could deal with an even smaller margin of personal responsibility. MK2 said it best, “Fatality!”
Greg
Filed under: Matt Gagnon
Hot as hell out here in LA. The air conditioning is broken in the coffee shop. These poor baristas are dying. It’s like the safari in here; I’m watching my back for lions.
I’ve been reading the last couple volumes of Gotham Central and it occurred to me that it’s the last excellent series that DC have published. From purity of concept to execution, it’s damn near flawless. The story follows the day shift and night shift of the GCPD’s Major Crimes Unit. The characters in the story are the best detectives (that don’t wear costumes) that Gotham has to offer, all hand picked by James Gordon himself. Some of the last honest cops in a notoriously crooked department trying to prove themselves in a city where the World’s Greatest Detective cracks all the major cases. Fucking excellent motivation. Co-writer’s Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker — two of the best crime writers in comics — each take a shift as their own. Rucka takes first shift, focusing on his favorite DCU character, Renee Montoya, and her no-nonsense partner from Metropolis, Crispus Allen. Brubaker’s got second shift concentrating on detective Marcus Driver, the last detective to be hand picked by Commissioner Gordon before he retired. I can’t put theses books down. My highest recommendation. Search them out and abuse your local comics retailer if they don’t carry them. All five volumes are in print.
Other than that, I’m making my down a laundry list of Things To Do. Today finds me compiling a list of producers my co-writer and I want to get our pilot script over to. It’s to be handed in to our reps next week. Next up is some more work on the treatment. We’ll need at least 6 potential episode ideas in there. It’s (very) possible that we’ll be asked to create a series bible at some point along the process. Yay.
I’m listening the The Hold Steady right now. I need to get my hands on the new Spoon album. Also, an old album from Neutral Milk Hotel. Magnolia Electric Company founds its way back into my rotation and I forgot how much I like those guys. I saw them live with some friends about a year ago and the lead singer was in a bitchy mood — tiny little chap with an attitude. But, you know, I don’t let that take away from enjoying the music.
I’m hearing good things about a new British tv show called Skins. I’m planning on tracking the down the pilot online later. I saw the credit sequence on YouTube and it was fantastic. I’m obsessed with credit sequences for television shows.
Man, it really is hot in here.
Filed under: Greg Stuetze
River Raid, H.E.R.O., Riddle of the Sphinx, Pitfall, Ikari Warriors, 1942, Gauntlet, Defender, Moon Patrol, Millipede, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Wizardry, Lode Runner, Ultima, Taipan, Super Mario Bros., Metroid, Excitebike, Contra, Castlevania, Altered Beast, Final Fantasy, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Tower of Miraglen, A Bard’s Tale, Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Bowl, Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Warcraft, Command & Conquer, Everquest, Starcraft, Dark Ages of Camelot, Halo, Ghost Recon, Star Wars Galaxies, Splinter Cell, Baldur’s Gate, Kung Fu Chaos, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Gears of War…
My all-time favorite is Metroid. I can remember bringing down Mother Brain with two energy tanks to spare (or was it three). It was the first time that I felt the rush from a gaming experience, and it seemed to fuel the future.
My time on this earth can be measured in video games. Wow. As I am working more and more on /afk I have begun to realize the depth of my own relationship with the gaming world and the games that define me.
How much time has been spent? That is something that need not ever be answered because I have absolutely no regrets.
Anyone have any personal favorites that ring true for you…
Greg
Filed under: Matt Gagnon
Wired has an article up on Soviet-era arcade games. These crude, beautifully historic video games stopped being produced around the fall of communism. You just know that Russian Spetsnaz were recruiting young soldiers based on high scores off these relics.
