Recent content by Imposing Snail

A very intresting and thought-provoking article. Well done! Just one thing, as much as I hate to be one of "those" people: "The American conception of Santa Claus was largely created by an advertisement painter employed by Coca-Cola." You might want to look up Thomas Nast. It doesn't make...

"So Zynga took a simple game dynamic we're all familiar with and made it available to everyone..." Actually they took someone else's simple game dynamic (see FarmTown) and advertised it better. What I'm afraid of is that this "off-the-shelf" synonym for passing off someone else's game as your...

I think nerd is contextual. My main two hobbies outside of gaming are American Football and Go (read: like chess but Chinese and nerdier). When I'm training on the football team I'm surrounded by +6' massive athletic people who would spend more time at the gym than the library, I feel very...