Jamie Antonisse

I always suspected, but I was never sure until now. Thank you, Boris! You've saved 532!

For celebration/good measure, here is one of Kirby's finer collaborations. A nickel to anyone who can actually watch the whole thing!

I've been pretty busy lately, working on PB Winterbottom, building a site for my ICT project, keeping Hush going, writing and revising endless documents for The Cache, and last but not least, appreciating the British weather.

Sometimes in such states all we need is something mildly miraculous to distract us completely and utterly.

I just spent thirty minutes staring at this animation, wondering if I was going crazy.

This ENTIRE POST is a response to RJ's phenomenal rant on the endless, misinformed comparison between movies and games. I could not in good conscience tack something this long to the tail of his blog.

I almost forgot!!

For those interested, the games/movie debate has been continuing in full force over at Sean's blog, Softcore Gamer. Ethan Kennerly has weighed in as well with some interesting stuff... check the comment section of the entry.

Our Thanksgiving turkey, courtesy of Hutson Hayward. Brined (brined!) for two days prior to eating. Amazing.

We have a nice little Thanksgiving tradition: a gathering of East Coast expatriates that congregates at our house on turkey day, a second family for the family starved. This year the party grew to seventeen; we threw every table and chair in our house into the center of the room, stacked foodstuff on every surface, and ate ourselves to distraction. Forget Christmas, Thanksgiving is the holiday that really showcases people's giving spirit: twenty dishes! Eight desserts! 15 bottles of wine! And I never needed to stray farther afield than my sidewalk. What a holiday.

Yes, it has been awhile. I have not been a well-oiled blogging machine. There are of course several reasons for this, none of them exciting or in any way Guild-related. So no, I am not on Strike.

[Nice segue, Jamie!]

Who says criticism can't change the world.

Thank you, Ben Abrams, for finding the best page on the IMDB.

Pony party, anyone?

This one's not for the faint of heart or the workplace. Parents strongly cautioned.

I never had a dog when I was growing up, but I wouldn't have dropped the controller either. This is the nature of the gaming spirit.

This one's coming via Adam, by the way, and I assume therefore that it's somewhere on Mahalo as well.

Also, someone on the comments wrote that this was "staged". Maybe on the kid's part... the dog is not acting and that's what really matters.

This game.

It's a perfect distraction-puzzler... like all good head-scratchers, it presents a goal that appears simple but ends up taking you the long way around. Bonus simple-but-elegant points for the sound design.

Thank Laura (who found teh Bloxorz) and Roboman (the Nexus-7 who created it).

Strange things are afoot at Pure West Films...

Play This Thing has found it's way into my aggregator recently... it's a good read, and great way to get exposed to a wide variety of games. Lo and behold, today they deviated from their normal pleasantries and posted this overwhelmingly negative Review of Game Criticism.

Well, I'll make this short. I'm jealous.

I want to be writing for RJ's blog. More specifically, I want to be writing this and this and this.

I've come to a difficult point in my blogging life: specifically, I've become aware of the blog as a potentially powerful tool. As anyone creative knows, POTENTIAL is a downer. All the things you COULD do tend to cripple your ability to properly DO anything.

I have a soft spot for slow games. Games that take place over weeks instead of hours. Glacier games, I call them, knowing full well that the phrase will never catch on.

Al Yang and Ed Zobrist turned me on to this gem, a little European MMOG that answers the question: what would happen if you played a game of Warcraft 2 on a geological time scale? Or, if you prefer: what would happen if Civ II WASN'T a compressed experience, a hyperspeed war 'n' progress sim, played out over turns, but was instead... a multiplayer game of civilizations growing slowly alongside each other?

I'm finally watching "The Wire", after listening to five separate friends rave about it as the "best show ever made". I'm three episodes in, and it's growing on me.

This scene is a little convergence of Interactive Media and Baltimore Hustling. We often talk about the "metaphor" of games, and how many different ways there are to make an abstract system meaningful. I can't thing of a better example than this.

Like much of the game-lovin' internet, I stumbled onto a treasure trove of nonsense a few months ago via this Penny Arcade link. Who would have thought that the exploits of Garfield could actually be used for comedy?

I had my fill of "Lasagna Cat" after one day, but I've occasionally checked back on Garfield Minus Garfield, and today I noticed some pretty unbelievable news.

I came across this gem while researching Hypertext for my paper... a naive, hilarious and wonderful view of Interactive Media circa 1990. Leave it to Douglas Adams to get it so wrong, yet so right.

If it's all getting little too linear for you, try skipping around... I guarantee you'll encounter some classic out-of-context BBC action.

Some of the best times of my life were weekends spent filming movie previews with my Pure West buddies. We'd make our own two minute versions of the films we wished existed, mocking every genre we could reach along the way.

I'm still out here, but they have continued the grand tradition with Full Hack. A story of winners, losers, lovers, and minature beanbags. Check it out!