Opinion
7 Popular PC games of the last 65 months that actually sucked
These games are all immensely popular, highly rated and a fair amount of fun, but each and every one of them is also a spectacular shitbag of suck. Mirror’s Edge (2009, metacritic 81, user score 8.2, 1+ million copies sold) Parkour does not translate well to the PC. Moments of fluid motion are rare, the [...]
The shared experience of single player games
We don’t often stop to think about the entire layer of shared experiences represented by video games.
Islands of the different
“However, a change in modern ways of thinking and living cannot be commanded ‘from above’, but solely grow ‘from the ground up’” – Wilhelm Schmid, contemporary German philosopher.
Mr Mackerel’s thoughts on Democracy
In the realm I grew up in, there was no democracy. It struck me in all of you cutesy muffin munchers, that every one of you I met held this thing very dearly. Go Earth! That is nice, seeing all of you united in loving the vote. Who loves the vote! Do I hear someone [...]
