I went into DC yesterday with some friends, and I finally checked out the Art of Video Games exhibit like I’d been meaning to for months. I didn’t get much out of the “video games through the ages” part as a gamer very interested in gaming history, though I did play Fl0wer in the section with playable games. The Secret of Monkey Island, Pacman, Super Mario Bros., Myst, and Fl0wer were all playable for brief bits. I suppose they were chosen for their accessibility to a general audience as well as impact on games, which worked out okay. All in all, it was a good exhibit, even though something like Babycastles in NYC seems more my speed where “video games as art” is concerned.
I did really like the concept art portion, and I wish there’d been more!
a collection of babies. a selection of my favorite babies in the world. babies
almost… I can almost play things
almost
Mari your art is so hamsumm
Arcade you make me swoon.
“After finishing the main quest in NV every way possible, I have concluded that there is no way to truly win it. NV either ends up as a brutal dictatorship, a puppet of a failing, outdated government, or just another state to be absorbed into a vast imperialist movement. I am not satisfied by any of them.”
I like how if you choose the Independent ending, THE DICTATOR IS YOU.
And you get your own robot army. In some universes, this would make you a supervillain.
Pretty much all of this. Sadly, it’s no longer about choosing a happy ending as much as it is finding one that’s the least douchebaggy.
I could wax poetic about how this is perfect because it shows just how futile it all is, but… I won’t. Obsidian is full of story-crafting geniuses.
It’s a little awkward when I go to Gmail and search my lab TA’s last name: Navarro
50% porn, 45% gen, 5% Chemistry lab emails
herf
-“I found the sexbot you’re looking for.”
-“You did? Hot damn! I’ve been looking for one of those for years! For my customers, I mean… I’m not into that kind of shit.”
PERKS OF THE JOB »
Fallout stories written by two awesome people and inspired by the “Cherchez La Femme” and “Confirmed Bachelor” perk art. Haven’t read them myself but they come recommended!
Pip-Boy mk. II, so far. I need to finish painting it before I can wear it; I had to sand down a bunch of epoxy this afternoon which is why it’s so gross. It has different screens, and plays a New Vegas radio broadcast I made in Audacity (shitty software, but it’s free) with the files extracted from the game.
I’m so excited to wear it again!
I hope you’re looking at those entries and my avatar next to them and picturing Craig Boone attempting to write something in C++ that actually parses
#booneprogram 1
my $sniperrifle = @ARGV[0];
my $beret = @ARGV[1];
my $lovelydeadwife = @ARGV[2];
my $senseofhumor = @ARGV[3];
my $lips;
my $envir;
local *MOUTH;
open(MOUTH, “>$lips”) || die;
while $sniperrifle {
study;
eval $envir;
kill $@ if $@;
return “dead”; }
if ($beret != True) { print ”I would really like my beret back, please.”; }
if ($senseofhumor) { $senseofhumor = None; }
else { pass; }
THIS IS WHY I SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO HAVE IMAGE MANIPULATORS
i think of terrible image macros while I’m tired and driving hahaha
bringing this back because reasons
★Elvis Presley as The King
''Where every man is free to follow his own path, do his own thing. Where every man is a king in his own right.''
