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Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 3:58 pm on 8/23/2005
Um, just to make that more clear. We’re gonna throw open the doors, too - no private beta the way we thought we were gonna. Things may be incomplete and imperfect at first, so don’t let that surprise you.
Also, OgreCave did a lot of video from Gen Con, and I am in some of it, doing interviews with game industry types. It’s fun if you have the bandwidth and want to see some of my grade-A T-shirt collection.
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 5:04 pm on 8/22/2005
I came up with that phrase two weekends ago, up in Portland, while walking with Ouroboros and some other E2-emeritus heads I don’t see often enough. I was telling them about _whytheluckystiff, and his various projects intended to teach people the programming language Ruby. Said efforts include lots and lots of cartoons, wildly meandering text, and the occasional live performance with band and shadow puppets.
Why “gloriously misdirected”? At the time I just meant to convey the WTF-ness of it all, along with the possibility that the work’s intended effect on its audience was not being fulfilled to the degree the creator believed. Or that the size of said audience was smaller than it appeared - why that part is important to me at all is the subject of an ongoing internal debate, though. A debate attended by many people with angry placards.
I seem to be applying this phrase to everything in my cultural life lately - from gaming (although the glory there is often missing) to odd internet phenomena to… wait, that is everything in my cultural life right now. I have of course considered it as a slogan for Fictionsuit (which LAUNCHES ON AUGUST 31).
I mainly intend it as a compliment, but it does open up the aforementioned debate. It’s still percolating in my head and I’m going to let it, and in all likelihood post about it here again. I’m considering trying to blog here every day in the month of October (which may be an act of GMC itself), and if that happens I can just refer back here as a reference point whenever I type GMC.
To let you know that… you know… I’m not talking about trucks. Thanks for your cooperation.
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 3:14 pm on 8/16/2005
After being a Poster Children fan for years, I finally started listening to Radio Zero, the proto-podcast that the band’s husband-and-wife front-peoples Rick and Rose have been doing for years. I’d tried before, but never got into it. What made the difference this time? I don’t know, but now it’s a “podcast.”
I have been known to listen to This Week In Tech. I don’t subscribe to the feeds of any of these things; I take ‘em a la carte.
I’ve begun watching Rocketboom.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME