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Erik Wolpaw: Still Alive

An interview with the person responsible for Portal’s insanely good writing. (Also that Old Man Murray thing.)

Also, there is cake. Why’s that?

Well, there are lots of message games coming out now. Like they’ve got something really important to get off their chest about the war in Iraq or the player is forced to make some dicey underwater moral choices. Really, just a whole heck of a lot of stuff to think about. With that in mind, at the beginning of the Portal development process, we sat down as a group to decide what philosopher or school of philosophy our game would be based on. That was followed by about fifteen minutes of silence and then someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake.

Yes, But They're Still Farming

There are more World of Warcraft players in America than farmers. We are no longer an agricultural nation.

– Paul Krugman, appearing on This Week.

We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

EA acquires Bioware for more money than you can count.

Edit: or, apparently, more money than the media can count, either.

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World of Adcraft

Fan-made commercial for a sneaker contest:

Actual commercial for, um. Trucks:

Yes, the Apocalypse is among us. Expect four horsemen and plagues shortly.

Drugs Are Bad

The Seventies were great, though.

(Mind shattered? Blame Yahtzee for reminding me of this classique.)

Africa Is Hard

In The Know: Situation In Nigeria Seems Pretty Complex

This Just In: Lyndon LaRouche Still Loves You

As seen by a LaRouche stalker blog commenter, the LaRouche Youth are enjoying their moment of cathode-ray sun.

The reactions to the evidently competent, recently published LPAC exclusive “Halo 3: The ‘Third Wave’ of Destroying the U.S.”, as received by its authors in the form of “Letters to the Editor” by swarms of agitated Internet-addicts, reinforce the simple points outlined, but not understood by its relevant audience, due to certain, cumulative effects of turning over the sovereign function of creativity to a Tweener-oriented culture of “groupthink”, as typified by Ayn Rand’s Wikipedia.org.

The sacrificing of one’s will to a higher commitment toward the Common Good would be appreciated by future generations. But to sacrifice one’s will to the third-wave of the counter-culture fostered by DARPA, Microsoft, BAE Systems, and the new religious revival known as the Fools of Silicon Valley, is to submit to America’s long-standing enemy—the British Empire!

Sadly, despite the title,  nowhere does the screed mention either Halo 3 or Abu Ghraib, but instead reads like a randomly edited Prokofy Neva rant on Wikipedia. The Queen was reportedly not amused.

Happy Nazis

This Just In: Lyndon LaRouche Hates Halo 3, World of Warcraft, You, and Second Life

DEEP THINKARIf you read Wikipedia, Lyndon LaRouche is one of the most influential political thinkers of our time, responsible for the Strategic Defensive Initiative, economic policy in Russia, and Wikipedia itself. He was a political prisoner, and a serious contender for the US Presidency.

If you read websites not called Wikipedia, Lyndon LaRouche is a fascist, a cult leader, an anti-Semite, and has an unhealthy fixation on the Queen of England.

However, a new article from the LaRouche Youth explains the real menace facing American life today: Dick Cheney’s plot to have us play computer games.

The more substantial subject for investigation is: How does one young adult get corrupted into becoming a psychotic-mass killer, or a mere useless drone for the likes of Anti-Nation-State Fascists, such as Felix Rohatyn, George Shultz, or even their dupe, Dick Cheney? The most obvious answer to any thinking individual— is to dehumanize the image of human beings. There are many tedious details and complexities that go behind the production of such games as Counterstrike, World of Warcraft, Entropia Universe, EVE-Online and Halo 3. However, once that dehumanizing process has been accomplished, the ability of making useless wars (like that of Iraq, today) and mass killing of innocent people, as in the case of the Virginia Tech incident, are stepping stones for the unleashing of a New Dark Age.

Then follows a chart. See?

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No, I don’t get it, either. Somehow, this explains why we play games instead of writing arpeggios or something. But thankfully, the LaRouche Youth Counter-Intelligence Squad is doing its job to counter intelligence and is on the case:

With that reality, an investigation by the current LaRouche Youth Movement counter-intelligence team is ongoing, to look at the deeper implications of this “Brave New Cyberworld.” Two things come up that are prevalent with the creation of these games. One, is the mental psychosis of the vulnerable adolescent or young adult, who are gullible to these fictions. The second is the fostering of specific types of “virtual world” games— supposedly designed for mere entertainment, such as the hedonistic Second Life, or Halo 3. Either way, the dehumanization process occurs in any instance, by the first-person shooter games’ precision to kill another object, or by the adoption of an arbitrary set of anti-scientific, anti-principled rules, like that of Second Life, or even the great Ministry of Truth—Wikipedia.

See, I told you it was Wikipedia’s fault.

The Internet: Occasionally Useful!

For example, if you need a ‘new’ name for your guild.

I like “Bat Reason”, myself.