Distributed whuffie

[prog]

I noticed tonight while ego-surfing (via Technorati) that my Gameshelf post from a couple months ago about Space Giraffe, which was my personal return to that blog, and which I figured would get some good foo via its novel theme (colliding a controversial piece of contemporary literary theory with video game design), got linked from Kotaku and amassed a bunch of comments there - many more than the original post earned.

I really have to get around to intsalling Webalizer or some other referrer-log-checker, one of these days. No, sooner than that; it's an indispensable tool for any ego-driven blogger (ha ha redundancy yes), dammit.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Small world-- that post links to an earlier post about Jon Blow's comparison of Space Giraffe to Ulysses. Which elicited this comment: "I think I have a new goal in life, to find and beat the crap out of Jonathan Blow!" I wonder how that's working out for the commenter.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I ran into pointers towards the Ulysses comparison when I was first researching Space Giraffe, but didn't follow them, and so didn't know that Jon wrote it. How about that.

And I also didn't know he was the fellow I met two years ago at your Liberty Ave apt, but I am right now having an IM conversation with you about this so I will just stop here.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I suppose one could reduce emphasis on authorial intent to a simple absurdity: people saying the game sucks don't understand that the author's intent was for it to be awesome!

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Following that link reminded me how much I hate Kotaku. Rrrarrrgh. At this point it is irrational because the comments on that post are fairly intelligent BUT STILL. I hate the smug tone of their writing, the misogynistic anti-intellectualism of it all, and how ultimately they're owned by a fucking gossip blogging network so why on earth do people take them remotely seriously.

Anyway.

No question that links from popular sites are good.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Good point on the anti-intellectualism. The intent of my article was to elicit "that's an interesting angle" and not "you're applying literary theory... to video games? Smirk."

I guess the whole point of a gossip site is that every topic they cover has to be trashy by definition, so any remotely transcendent application must be a gag, right? eh.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

It's doubly sad because they're the first to throw a screaming hissy fit when anyone suggests that games AREN'T art--but analyse games as though they ARE and, ho, ho, ho, they're just games!

Perhaps I dislike Kotaku so much simply because it is such a perfect reflection of the current state of our medium and its audience.