Comments for Indignant Desert Birds

Comment on Can’t Buy Me Love by MT_Richardson

MT_Richardson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:27:49 +0000

It sucks that art forms, from games to movie to television, can have successful properties and artists’ work killed off by poor business decisions. This problem goes doubly when big budgets, so critical to the AAA experiences we love, are involved. It’s frustrating to see promising projects either killed off or horribly mutilated because some jerk with an MBA had a fit of hubris.

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material Second Sunday in January 2012- A Month Dedicated to My Cat Edition by slacktivist » One for normal people and another one for women

slacktivist » One for normal people and another one for women — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:14:12 +0000

[...] Punning Pundit recently discussed another graphic digital example of this neutral/marked problem in video game design: One of the great features of Science Fiction [...]

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material Fourth Sunday in January 2012- Puns of my Father Edition by Dad

Dad — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:17 +0000

Great LBJ video. Not to say that racism is still not an American Problem and will continue to be until the cycle of poverty is broken but we need a speech as powerful as that one identifying poverty as the American Problem.

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material Third Sunday in January 2012- Football! Edition by Mutton of the Sea

Mutton of the Sea — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:42:40 +0000

Thanks for the link to the review of “Fixing the Game,” which I will definitely be reading. It is terribly, terribly sad that somebody has to write an entire BOOK pointing out that companies should be run to make and sell a product, not to enable stockholders to “win” at the game of Wall Street. Is gambling one of the fundamental human drives? Shareholder behavior is prompting me to vote “yes.”

Love the video of the cheerleaders performing “Girlfriend.” Almost as funny as my kids dancing to it on WiiDance2!

Your cat is the most awesome thing ever. I can say that with confidence, never having met him or her, because all cats are the most awesome thing ever.

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material Second Sunday in January 2012- A Month Dedicated to My Cat Edition by Dad

Dad — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:15:58 +0000

Class warfare and video games?
Well I’m all for class warfare except that “the games they play are part of my solution”, thank you Mick…they are not very nice to us when they are digging through our pockets for every last dime…what/who does Attila the Hun look like today? I know he went through the central valley a few years ago. No one saw him coming and no one saw him leave but there are a lot of villages that have been burnt to the ground. O well, life as a peasant in America post WW2, is still better than being king 300 years ago. Viva La Peasant, or something like that

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material First Sunday in 2012- Celebrate Good Times Edition by Dad

Dad — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:56:48 +0000

Money bought a house in a good school district. I’m happy that my children know how to think and communicate.

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material First Sunday in 2012- Celebrate Good Times Edition by The Ridger

The Ridger — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:05:52 +0000

I canNOT believe they really think the hashtag is “ruining” English. Not only is English a helluva lot tougher than they apparently think it is, things like this have been around for as long as there has been writing. Get a grip…

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material First Sunday in December 2011- Ampersand Edition by Mutton of the Sea

Mutton of the Sea — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:26:00 +0000

Great post — but my favorite part was “Batman Eats a Hotdog.” He has such a smug-cat-just-brought-home-dead-squirrel expression on his face when he’s done.

Nice catch on the Cracked article about money. I was going to tweet about that, too. Every word is one hundred percent, totally, bitterly true — and as far as I can remember, that’s without even dwelling on the whole Health Insurance nightmare that haunts modern American society.

Comment on Sunday Morning Reading Material Fourth Sunday in November 2011- Maniacal Laugh edition by Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:30:42 +0000

Re: porn for chicks: they may be half of the sex-having world, but they are not half of the porn-watching world. And it’s not just because porn isn’t being made for them. If it were, that would be the single biggest untapped market in the world. Think of the amount currently being made on porn (billions) and double it. No force on earth could stop us from capitalizing on that.

But no; the fact is that one of the most notable ways in which men and women are wired differently is in how they experience arousal. Men are visually fixated in a way that (most) women aren’t. At the same time, female arousal has a large emotional component that is unknown to (most) men.

Functional MRIs don’t lie: our brains work differently.

Comment on Games built for the PC are simply better than games built for Consoles by Ritalingamer

Ritalingamer — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:57:33 +0000

I also want to point out how much it irks me to play games that were cross-developed when they fail to take advantage of a keyboard setup.
A prime example would be Fallout New Vegas. The lack of separate shortcut keys for the map, quests, info, and inventory, instead all being accessed through tab/The Pipboy is baffling and inconvenient.