The worst CCG glut game I ever played was the Sim City CCG: a convoluted, time-consuming waste of a game consisting of cards with "art" taken from the real estate section of a local newspaper. In fairness, the idea of building a modern city with cards isn't a bad basis for a game at all… but it could only really work…

As a young nerd, I hated the rise of addiction-based models like CCGs and, eventually, MMORPGs, as they both created obvious class divisions in the nerd community (after all, spending thousands on cards or a gaming computer/internet connection demands a certain level of economic privilege) and devastated the natural…

As a young nerd, I hated the rise of addiction-based models like CCGs and, eventually, MMORPGs, as they both created obvious class divisions in the nerd community (after all, spending thousands on cards or a gaming computer/internet connection demands a certain level of economic privilege) and devastated the natural…

Warhammer has been hugely popular in the US for at least 20 years. It was never anywhere close to CCGs in popularity since it lacked the genuinely addiction-inducing lure of cheap, randomized packs, but any town that had a hobby/miniatures shop usually had a dedicated Warhammer community built around it and more than…

Warhammer has been hugely popular in the US for at least 20 years. It was never anywhere close to CCGs in popularity since it lacked the genuinely addiction-inducing lure of cheap, randomized packs, but any town that had a hobby/miniatures shop usually had a dedicated Warhammer community built around it and more than…

Cyrus with an enraged Charles Grodin instead of a mumbling John C. Reilly would have been great…

Cyrus with an enraged Charles Grodin instead of a mumbling John C. Reilly would have been great…

But the "Benji running around doing stuff" scenes are actually what make the movie so popular and timeless for kids. Nobody cares about the crime plot… it's terrible for everyone, but dogs having a good time… that's something that a 5 year-old can relate to.

But the "Benji running around doing stuff" scenes are actually what make the movie so popular and timeless for kids. Nobody cares about the crime plot… it's terrible for everyone, but dogs having a good time… that's something that a 5 year-old can relate to.

Or it could be expressing male anxieties about rising expectations that they be more involved in raising children as more women enter the workplace… a phenomenon that coincides with the increasing perception that kids are being given too much importance in society (which, IMO, mostly translates to "men have to deal…

Or it could be expressing male anxieties about rising expectations that they be more involved in raising children as more women enter the workplace… a phenomenon that coincides with the increasing perception that kids are being given too much importance in society (which, IMO, mostly translates to "men have to deal…

If the marketing is deliberately misleading, there's almost certainly a well-researched reason for that.

If the marketing is deliberately misleading, there's almost certainly a well-researched reason for that.

Nothing, but there are two forms of pretentiousness, one delightful and the other insufferable.

Nothing, but there are two forms of pretentiousness, one delightful and the other insufferable.

My guess is that she encountered it as criticism afterwards… which would explain the intensely defensive reaction. She doesn't take care to differentiate between the actual meaning of the term and potential misuse of the term, and her "criticism" of the term just supports and reinforces the criticism that the term…

My guess is that she encountered it as criticism afterwards… which would explain the intensely defensive reaction. She doesn't take care to differentiate between the actual meaning of the term and potential misuse of the term, and her "criticism" of the term just supports and reinforces the criticism that the term…

The concept of the MPDG erases all difference… and that's bad… and it's misogynist… and Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault.

The concept of the MPDG erases all difference… and that's bad… and it's misogynist… and Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault.

The target audience of Chuck E. Cheese consists of two key demographic groups: paycheck-wielding dregs who long ago cultivated an immunity to all filth-associated disease and resentful suburban moms who would let their kids eat drywall if it would shut them up for five minutes.