And now, with the inevitable removal of Learn to Counter from my Feedly list, I officially no longer follow any quasi-/pseudo-professional gaming news/blog sites whatsoever. Any awareness about future video game shit will simply come from Steam/GOG release/sale notifications, most of which I ignore anyway because very few of them tend to interest ( Read more... )

On the one hand, I kind of want to agree with this. On the other hand, I kind of feel that this is another case of Mr. Lowell being too jaded and cynical for even my tastes. I just can't quite decide whether I like and agree with this article or not. I mean, he's talking about stuff like a "benevolent supercomputer that strikes down terrible ( Read more... )

Hmm.

You know, as much as I've enjoyed Mr. Lowell's work in the past, I think that he might just be a bit too jaded and cynical, in this particular case. And, yes, for those of you who have endured my own pissy rants about the evils of the video game industry, that is indeed coming from me of all people, believe it or not. Don't get me wrong, as ( Read more... )

I agree with the majority of this article. The only real points of contention I have are with his unwarranted personal dig against ("non-celebrity") Wil Wheaton at the beginning, and his assertion that more agency to punish other players should be given to players, rather than less. I mean, he freely admits that humans are assholes, and they are ( Read more... )

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1. Why I Am a Dota Expert
2. The Crude Birth of a Genre
3. The Camera
4. Scope, Scale, and War
5. Auto-Attacking
6. The Chess Pieces
7. Complexity Through Choice
8. Balance
9. Dota Obscura
10. Dota and Teamwork
11. Why Dota is "Toxic"
12. Why Dota is Acclaimed
13. Why Dota is Popular
ConclusionAnd it's finished. I'll probably be going back ( Read more... )

One last post before I head back to bed for a little while. I think that this should be pretty much common sense, and yet, as he says, a whole lot of people don't understand the distinction.

Once again, Michael Lowell delivers what I feel to be yet another must read article. I somehow missed this one the first time around, and am glad it was updated and republished.

Michael Lowell of The GhettoLearn to Counter knocks another one out of the park. (EDIT) For some reason, this one isn't on the new site, but I did at least find it in the Wayback Machine for the old site version. (/EDIT)

This article from The GhettoLearn to Counter (which I've mentioned before) is particularly timely for me, given a couple of recent posts I've made.

The article is about half and half between talking about "simple games vs complex games" and "why games journalism in general is useless."

For the second point, I've long since come to the conclusion ( Read more... )

"It is my not at all humble opinion that anyone with even a passing interest in video games and/or the video game industry should read this."

I used that phrase before concerning another article on this website The GhettoLearn to Counter. And now, I am saying the same thing again about this article on the same website.