True story: Part of this movie was filmed inside a brownstone on my block in Park Slope. I even saw Josh Radnor talking on his cell phone once.

Second true story: At the same time they were filming, my apartment had bedbugs. So as this movie was being made, I was walking back and forth, back and forth (repeat 20 more times) past the film crew so I could wash literally everything I own at “Sud’s on 8th” (sic) in scalding hot water.

Point being, sure, bedbugs may be keeping people from seeing movies. But maybe, considering that I’m pretty sure every single place on my block had bedbugs too, bedbugs will begin to stop people from <making so many movies. Or at least from making so many terrible-sounding movies, like this one.

I read it as well, and I think you’re missing part of his point. He’s not calling games like Shadow of The Colossus drivel, he’s calling them *games.* Saying that video games can’t be art isn’t necessarily a pejorative – he also says that the game of chess can’t be considered art, which is not at all a denigration of chess. Games inherently are about achieving goals and objectives within a set of constraints. In contrast, true art is expansionary – it takes us beyond the constraints of its medium and asks us to consider or question larger things. Games, by definition, are self-limiting in a way that prevents them from ever transcending into art. That doesn’t mean they can’t still be entertaining, valid, and worthwhile uses of our time.

That being said, Sonderkommando Revolt is indefensible bullshit.

My favorite part of Halloween is remembering that this exists.

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

Bloodbath and Beyond

My son Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, a communist, but he’s not a porn star!

I love this site but sometimes I do not know what is going on. Didn’t we all agree earlier this morning that Anne Geddes is the worst, during the caption contest? And now we’re all posting pictures of babies in costumes like a bunch of Anne Geddes wannabes?

Sometimes I think Gabe is testing us, and if this is a test, we’re failing.