Recent content by Nifarious

TBH, your title promised more than it delivered. Not a bad little glance at vampires, but not all that contemporary or immoral.

Skyrim's obviously the official most anticipated game. Rage and Dead Island are close seconds. Really, the latter two could easily outshine Skyrim in terms of fun, but they could also flop, so who knows.

Eh, I think I can get Kerrigan to have the hots for me. I handle her minions so well ;)

Ah, some thoughtful comments instead of the inane ones which started this thread. Refreshing. Going back to The Thing, its element of subterfuge at not trusting anyone, etc. is social abjection. You're turned away from, disgusted with, and severely threatened by that which was previously...

Yahtzee's an idiot with one conception of horror. Dead Space does what Carpenter's The Thing does: take the human/animal form and contort it to horrible, unimaginable monstrosities. It's visceral, not 'psychological' (scarequotes emphasized). Shock at violence and physical distortion does wan...

Uh, hello...touch. Sex. Ever heard of it? And no, oversensitivity isn't super sensitivity.

Razer Death Adder Very Nice!

You guys really need to lay off the capital A Art sauce. That stuff has gone WAY past its expiration date.

Starcraft 2 and to a lesser extent, Fallout

I presume you're thinking of Beyond Good & Evil and/or The Genealogy of Morals. Those works have their place, but they're works of destruction. AntiChrist and Will to Power criticize morality/Xianity better. But his Gay Science is much much more about life. At least read that. His Zarathustra is...

The art question is stupid. It should rather be how can we think about (and be made to think about) games in interesting ways analogous to art, film, literature...How do games engage us in new ways that other media cannot? How can this be expounded upon? All that capital A Art bullshit needs...

Well, the problem I'm off-handedly pursing is that there are modes of approaching ethics that preclude the ability to consider that which lies outside the bounds that those systems establish in advance. More pedestrian examples of this are 'debates' on politics, religion, etc, that are merely...

I think the curve starts changing when you start bringing in real money into the equation. 100; 1,000; 1,000,000...But it's these hamfisted hypotheticals that really ruin any serious conversation on ethics. Utilitarianism is such rubbish. Granted, you didn't invoke that in your answers, but...

Bravo Waagh Powa. And this deserves quoting: Looks like there's an RPG waiting for me out there once I make it to Masters League in SC2.

You get treaded like an idiot often? :-P