Yesterday I finished watching Netflix's 13-episode series Daredevil and I'm quite glad I did. It took advantage of the series length to do some... interesting... takes on tropes, some bordering on being literary. I think I'll do a couple of posts over the next few days to jot some down. These will, of necessity, contain spoilers for the series ( Read more... )

The game criticism show Extra Credits, on considering players to be co-creators of the games they play and how that impacts (or should impact) game design.

-- Steve greatly enjoys seeing the medium treated as more than a diversion or disposable consumer good.

I'm watching TVO right now, one of their mini-documentaries on the film industry... it's "Edifice Complex", a series of interviews with architects intercut with scenes from The Fountainhead and Manhattan discussing how films approach their profession. Sorry, Objectivists, but Rand's work doesn't come off too well in the comparison; even the most ( Read more... )