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My morning shift got cut, which was such a relief; why the fuck am I even trying to work this much srsly. :(



Fly would like to tell you about the 15 worst songs of 2011. Read from bottom to top for the full countdown experience.

Kris Ligman on 'media species':

The last thing videogames need is for Hollywood to decide what makes a story and how we can shove more of that into interactive media, which clearly all behave in the same way and can accommodate such a worldly deposit of the collected wisdom of a century of filmmaking, right?

Seb Wuepper on the outside looking in at videogames:

It's about an artistic medium that is increasingly defined by the amount of fine particles of blood on the screen. If we as a whole want to be taken seriously, the games we play will have to change. It's not possible that we will always have to say "well most of the time you shoot people in the face BUT the story and worldbuilding and overall experience are really good."

Clay Shirky on paywalls, and the unbundling of news:

A printed paper was a bundle. A reader who wanted only sports and stock tables bought the same paper as a reader who wanted local and national politics, or recipes and horoscopes. Online, though, that bundle is torn apart, every day, by users who forward each other individual URLs, without regard to front pages or named sections or intended navigation.