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Cooler Heads in Egypt Than on the Internet? Why Were/Are People SO Up in Arms over Dickwolfgate?

by on February 4, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Posted In: Keith, Videogames


So I’ve been following the “Day of Departure” pretty closely onAl Jazeera blogs today (I really cannot stress following this enough), and (so far) as of 10:30 pm local time things remained relatively peaceful all day, which I have tremendous respect for. When your country is falling apart and your leaders have been stealing billions of dollars from you for 30 years, throwing a brick through a window or burning down a government building must feel pretty good.

I was talking with some colleagues about the whole Dickwolf thing, and why it exploded the way it did, we drew some interesting conclusions. I need to stress conclusions here, because seriously, it’s over. Both sides crossed the line, and now people are scrapping the barrel of controversy. I mean, barking at Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day for opinions to keep the debate going? Give it up for serious.

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Gabe and Tycho and the Boy Who Cried Dickwolf

by on February 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Posted In: Keith, Videogames

Who is that a picture of? It’s Hollywood producer Dick Wolf! Get it? Yeah… good times.

I feel that I sort of need to do a “take two” on my previous article.

You see, I keep this blog as a sort of writing exercise, since eventually there will be a proper site here:http://www.9to5.cc/ (hey, there totally is a site here now… sweet deal). Until that site goes live I just try to keep the habit of occasionally writing. I don’t really review what I write here, and there’s next to no editing (as some of you have pointed out).

With that in mind, my thoughts yesterday may not have been as clear orconcise as they could have been, I was also not fully informed about the insanity that was transpiring regarding the Dickwolf Debacle (I was personally leaning towards “Dickwolfgate” but Dickwolf Debacle does have a better ring to it). So in an effort to maintain brevity, I present the following in point form as a footnote to yesterday’s article: ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Penny Arcade is Losing its Cool or How Dickwolves Ruined The Party: A Cautionary Tale About Having Children and Losing Your Edge

by on February 1, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Posted In: Keith, Videogames

My final thoughts on the matter here.
Edit: Since some of you are coming in from links and are so lazy as to not check other posts, I thought you might get a kick out of the infamous Penny Arcade comic in question minus the dickwolf rape. It’s right here. On this blog. Seriously people.

Despite my best intentions, I feel as though this post will be unable to surpass my previous post in terms of sheer awesomeness, so much so, that I will likely embed the Insanity Wolf image into this post as well.

I’m not 100% sure where to begin with this thing, so I figure I will start it off with a personal experience. A few months ago, I began to vocallycomplain that Penny Arcade was starting to suck, like, a lot. At one point I clicked through the most recent (at the time) 6 months worth of comics and found that there was really nothing there that was laugh out loud “Claw Shrimp” funny, or “Oooh, low blow to the gaming industry” thought provoking. Nope, instead I found comics that were rarely about gaming, rarely socially challenging, and worse, rarely funny. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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