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Literate Gaming Analysis
aderack writes "The first issue of The Gamer's Quarter, a magazine that tries to take a more literary approach to videogames than do current publications, has been released in .pdf format. Included are fourteen lengthy articles, each with a unique perspective; one piece looks at the cultural meaning of Katamari Damacy, while another piece speaks of the writer's gradual acceptance of death as a learning tool."
you'd be amazed at the number of wannabe-intellectual weenies that are running around proclaiming themselves the new revolution in games journalism. they call themselves the New Games Journalists (which i assume is patterned after Hunter S. Thompson's "gonzo journalism"). in my nightmares i can see them gathering at a big conference to discuss the dialectics of gaming theory, or some bullshit like that.
Sensible, mature people like you and i have an obligation to stop this nonsense before it gets started. We have to expose and humiliate these frauds before they reach critical mass and become a bona fide movement.
if only it were that simple, grasshopper. here is a short list of bullshit intellectual movements that didn't just disappear into the abyss, with tragic consequences:
1) communism
2) postmodernism
3) third wave feminism
4) scientology
yes, i really am comparing New Games Journalism to communism. considering the mass human suffering that resulted from the scourge of communism, don't you just wish that one of Marx's school chums had called him out BEFORE Marxism caught on? well, that's basically what i'm doing, because i am an american hero.