Don’t worry! Mama will fix it!
Continuity Issues
“Remember when you were at SxSW, and I got comics without you, and you were disappointed* that I didn’t wait for you?” Harold asked on the phone the other night. “What would you think if I didn’t wait until you’re back to go see X-Men First Class?”
“I wouldn’t be too disappointed. But between when you see it and when I see it, I’m going to unfollow you on Twitter and Tumblr, and defriend you on Facebook, and probably not pick up the phone either, so your inevitable comic-book-movie complaints** don’t hamper my enjoyment of the movie.”
* He actually used a word a bit stronger than “disappointed.”
** I actually used a word a bit stronger than “complaints.”
Nyko at E3
I can’t figure out what I like best about this photo…. Is it the red wig? The intent expression? Waving my arm in the air for some futuristic cyberpunk videogame?
The Knifefight Principle
So Figment has an idea for a social game with optional premium content. The basic concept is a multiplayer knifefight on the Facebook platform. Anyone can play free, but getting a knife costs extra. For a gold membership, he explains with an evil grin, you can actually bring a gun to a knifefight.
Posted in Los Angeles, New York City
Tagged casual games, Facebook, facebook games, Figment, IGM, Lexicon, Los Angeles, New York City, social games
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Booth Dudes
That’s it. When my studio goes big time, I’m hiring booth dudes for #E3.
—amandadadesky, via Twitter
Posted in Gaming Culture, Los Angeles
Tagged Amanda d'Adesky, e3, gaming, girls play that too?, Los Angeles, twitter
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Bouncy Castle
bouncy castle!, by Simpson’s Paradox
This bouncy castle at E3 was pretty awesome, but I wasn’t best pleased by the girls in short-shorts hired to bounce around.
Between New York and Los Angeles
I wrote this piece, Wanting, for TheSmartly a few months ago, but traveling between the two cities reawakens the same feelings.
LA and New York make me want. That’s not a transitive verb here, I don’t have something in particular in mind to want.
I just want everything. I look around, and I want better clothes, shinier hair, straighter teeth. I want a newer phone, with more apps, too, the paid ones that run smoothly and integrate perfectly, and the underground indie apps that I discover before anyone else.
Via TheSmartly (And I particularly like the article naming convention that titles this “Wanting Meg Stivison”)
Linguistic Circuits
I sent my parents my travel plans for conferences and conventions I’m covering this summer, and my dad wrote back:
Well done, Meg! Now add these phrases to your vocabulary:
(1) “Stop the presses!”*
(2) “But the people have a right to know!”
(3) “I have it on deep background that…”
(4) “Our readers want to know…”
You may now delete these phrases from your vocabulary:
(1) “Anybody need more coffee?”
(2) “It comes with French fries.”
*No one actually says “Stop the presses!” anymore but I don’t think “Login to the admin panel, and open a text editor for a recent post!” really has the same effect. Call it old-media prejudice.
Posted in New York City
Tagged being a real journalist, coffee, my dad, my family is crazy, New York City, travel
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