See, my general attitude is that picking these more "adult" terms like Graphic Novel or Interactive Fiction is a mistake for two reasons. First, when we use these terms we're limiting the medium based on the connotations of words that don' really apply. Take Comic Book. What's comic about any given po-faced, deadly…

I think that the issue with Gone Home, at least in my opinion, is that it's a mediocre coming out novel that's presented in a pretty novel way. The house is interesting since each room's basically tied to the text that happens in it. Stuff like the couch fort or the dad's typewriter never move even though they're set…

It's the Graphic Novel vs Comic Book thing though, innit?

It's to the show's credit that it takes the notion deadly seriously. There are a handful of really dark jokes and a horrific twist at the end, but the Prime Minister's anguish and its effects on his marriage are treated with realistic gravity.

The whole thing makes a lot more sense when you keep in mind that Fey and Carlock both really like rape jokes. Fey's rationale for this is that most comedy writers and standups wind up being really into really rough or taboo jokes abut stuff like rape, racism, child abuse, weird sex, etc.

No, they probably wouldn't mention anything to the fans at this early a stage unless they were planning on kickstarting something.

Eh. They've tolerated multiple remake projects for years. I think this is, if anything, an indication that they might be interested in licensing WoD and other WW projects out now that the MMO is dead.

You ever get that thing where you just can't stop screaming at something?

Why shouldn't we try and change other peoples' art? Art, commerce and politics have never been genuinely distinct in any sense, and the idea that they are distinct is a bourgeois pretension that's as ridiculous as the idea of pure research.

I don't think Gone Home is a game. That's not because it makes me uncomfortable or because I think it's bad per sae, but because it's not really a game. It's a piece of IF, and IF is often classified in terms of gaminess (puzzles, systemized design, etc). Barring the speed-runs people have done, there's no gaminess to…

If they didn't reuse models it would've been hugely detrimental to the game itself. Part of what makes the game work (and what I think you were getting at when you called it a surreal fever dream) is that it's a carnivalesque play on Ocarina of Time. The carnivalesque requires shifts in identity, and you can't really…

Maybe the fact that it's tailor made for a video game is why it it hasn't gotten a good one. I tried to get into the show but the world just seemed to pat and dull. what with the different elemental nations and all. It just felt, well, it felt like something a middle schooler would hash out for a D&D setting.

Are you straight? You seem really straight. You go through an entire Bayonetta review without talking about drag, which I think is just... well, it's fucking ridiculous is what it is. Bayonetta's aesthetics are really heavily rooted in drag. That's kind of the entire point of combining excessive, performitive…

The sad thing about 'gamergate' is that the men lashing out are exactly the sort of people who would really be helped by feminism. They cling to these fucked up and kinda tedious fantasies because they've been strung along by all these toxic ideas of what manhood is, but can't actually enact it because... well...…

I never liked the Pitt because they chickened out on the baby-murder. And normally that wouldn't bother me, because baby murder is fucked up and a lame way of trying to crank drama out of something. But the whole story is clearly built around the idea of baby-murder. You hook up with a chick named Medea and it's…

This kind of thing happens like, once a year. It's very strange.