Obligatory Press Pass Photo.
IndieCadeEast
Obligatory Press Pass Photo.
Posted in Chapel Hill, New York City
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Planning Fallacy
There was so much to learn at IndieCade East, and so much to mull over and think about afterwards, but I haven’t actually written anything. I got home feeling completely, deeply exhausted, like I’d been traveling for weeks.
I usually suffer a bit from planning fallacy while traveling, overestimating how much work I can do while in transit, but I hit every possible delay and disaster on this trip. Did you know that if you are carrying a Kindle and iPod and netbook through security, that is a suspicious amount of electronics? And it will get you pulled out line and get your bags hand-searched? (I was carrying my suspicious electronics and associated chargers because I have both Droid and iOs review assignments due.)
With airlines charging to check bags and expecting passengers to be at the airport hours before the flight, it’s pretty ballsy for airport security to question me about why my carryon contains both things to occupy myself for hours of waiting and things I need for a trip.
<<Here I wrote an extremely long list of complaints about everything else that went wrong in the past week, but it’s boring, so I deleted it. >>
Anyway, I have a great deal to think about from the presentations at IndieCade that I made it to and weren’t canceled, if I can stop dwelling on how awful my week was, I will.
IndieCade East
IndieCade East is held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, which should be a almost a straight shot from my parents’ house. Take the 66 from the corner to Port Authority, then take the R almost to the museum’s door, but neither the 66 nor the R was running smoothly. While it wasn’t my most favorite thing ever, it’s been a while since mumbled MTA announcement derailed my travel, and it felt oddly normal and right.
Still Life With Hello Kitties
The view from my window of real snow falling in Chapel Hill!
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Tumblr evangelist, SEO rulebreaker and coffee connoisseur
I wrote about the sameness in tech hipster pitches when I was at TechCrunch Disrupt a few years ago, so I found this auto-generator for tech hipster Twitter bios hilarious.
Have you noticed that there’s a certain sameness to tech and startup bios? What The F*ck Is My Twitter Bio re-spins the common cliche of products-used-as-adjectives with brags-used-as-nouns found in way too many Twitter profiles. Think “Instagram guru,” “Tumblr mixmaster,” “Snapchat rulebreaker,” “Pinterest ninja,” etc.
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What The F*ck Is My Twitter Bio was made by Jack Marshall, Saya Weissman, and Brian Braiker, all from Digiday, proving that even people who live and breath internet marketing can’t say “social media guru” and “bootstrapping ninja” with a straight face.
Although I have to admit I considered making Tumblr evangelist, SEO rulebreaker and coffee connoisseur my accurate and sarcastic Twitter bio.
via What the F*ck Is My Twitter Bio Auto-Generates Cliched Bios So You Don’t Have To | (The) Absolute.
HotorNot’s New Mobile App
The new mobile app for HotorNot offers the same photo rating but adds a dating component for actually meeting the users you’ve rated as hot. Users can find attractive people nearby, or find friends of friends. It’s interesting that dating app OKCupid added the rating component, while rating app HotorNot has added dating, flirting and meeting.
The relaunched HotorNot mobile app is now climbing the app store, reaching 13 for free apps, which is above Facebook. (For anyone saying that Facebook is finished, or that it’s all annoying posts from people we’d rather ignore, #13 is also above the insanely popular and profitable Candy Crush Saga, meaning more people want to rate strangers than pop candies. So, yeah, pretty impressive for a dating and flirting app.) Hot or Not is completing with popular dating apps like OKCupid and Tinder, as well as with smaller romance apps, like start-up Datini or Down, the revamp of Bang With Friends. There’s an Android version as well, which is #12 on Amazon apps for social networkers. HotorNot is also on Facebook, with over 14K fans using the app to rate and date.
When online matchmaking sites like Match.com got going, the excitement of internet dating came from connecting with potential partners in ways you might not be able to meet someone in a bar. Online daters might meet a partner over a shared hobby, or you might use a simple search to weed out potential dates with a dealbreaking viewpoint. It’s interesting to see online dating coming full circle, and becoming more and more like meeting a cute guy or girl in a bar, only without the actual bar part of it. (Or possibly meeting a date from two different bars!)
This post has been sponsored by HotOrNot.
In Bloom. #blog
In Bloom. #blog
Adventures, Games, Harold
Sometimes it’s challenging to work in games and have a partner who also works in games. Sometimes the very idea of having two stable game jobs at two different studios in the same city seems completely insane, impossible and ridiculous.
Today, though, Harold came into my study and asked me I was working on. I looked up from my flowcharts and scene breakdowns, and told him.
“Having written entire hidden object games in a weekend,” he said, “I’ll leave you to it.”
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The Perils of The Lady Gamer: A Graphial Diversion Regarding Women and Games
I wrote about this hilarious and sad comic on female gamers by Shaenon K Garrity for The Absolute. You may have seen it by now — this is actually the 4th time* I’ve covered a story right before a Gawker imprint does, which makes me feel like a fantastic journalist, with my finger on the pulse of breaking awesome. Of course, immediately after that, people will comment and email to call me a terrible hack for ripping off Gawker, so there’s that to keep me from getting conceited.
Perils of The Lady Gamer: A Graphial Diversion by Shaenon K Garrity, is a wonderful comic about being a female gamer… at a gaming convention set in a sort of alternative World’s Faire.
Game writers will notice a reference to Penny Arcade’s Dickwolves and a parody of IndieStatik’s recent embarrassment. Women who play games will find the whole thing terribly familiar, although with an amusing twist. A booth babe raises her hemline to reveal her ankles (scandalous!), fanboys whistle and ask lady gamers to show their shoulders, while other games insist that Mumblety-Peg isn’t hardcore enough to be a ‘real’ game.
via The Perils of The Lady Gamer: A Graphial Diversion Regarding Women and Games | (The) Absolute.
*’Comic Book Heroines in Pants’ hit Jezebel right after I wrote about it on Geek Insider, Jezebel covered Carly’s Choice: Texas after I wrote about it for IGM, and Robert Yang’s talk at G4C was covered on IGM and Kotaku, just in case you’re reviewing my blog while considering whether to hire me.
