Coming Up For Air

Mar 17, 2013 21:26

The family's been down with a seasonal bug.  Regular Life (TM) will resume at some later date.

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swordznsorcery March 18 2013, 19:29:20 UTC
Hello. Sorry you've been feeling down.

Saw this news story a little while back. It might interest you:

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/03/donkey-kong-pauline-hack/?cid=co6309434

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crabby_lioness March 19 2013, 17:46:40 UTC
I saw that, and the Link-Zelda switch it inspired this week.

Reading the comments in various places, I see no father of daughters among the handful of protestors. Good. It's wonderful to see constructive post-modernism generating excitement. I wonder what Nintendo thinks of it all?

Thought #2: this sort of has been done for decades in other media, but with them it's been a tedious process that didn't get much attention. Thanks to the nature of 80s video games, a good hacker can do it on a weekend and become a global sensation. That's sure to generate some much-needed conversations that move beyond, "Why are girls always complaining?"

On a related note, we started Animal Crossing: City Folk on March 1. That game has taken over the TV completely. Who knew paying off a mortgage could be so much fun?

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eumenidis March 24 2013, 08:07:09 UTC
My sympathies; I hope it doesn't drag on as long as my 80-something mother's bronchitis has.

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crabby_lioness March 24 2013, 15:41:16 UTC
Thanks. We're making incremental progress, but it's in damn tiny increments.

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