Christian McCrea

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:39:15 -0500

GamesNetwork Must Be Destroyed

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:28:00 -0500

The email list known as GamesNetwork is the primary discussion list for games research in the English language. It must also now be abandoned and destroyed. It only has one good purpose - It collects CFPs, which are benign. Aside from that, it then has two major forms of conversation.

1) The bibliography search.

A tourist will emerge with a singularly woolly topic and ask that the collective mind produce a bibliography. Rather than coming to the group at the end of their research with questions, they decide to make a google out of the collective and demand that this all-so-amazing link between tangential phenomena be declared wholly original. Why else would their 10-second web search have yielded no perfect quotes to use in their mind-bendingly shitty article?

2) The inflamed sore.

An off-hand comment will balloon into a deranged festival of misreading as jaded academic vampires whisper all sorts of dimsal euphonies in order to progress some long-forgotten implacable territorial war. Young graduate students will assume this discussion is of some worth because they will have heard of some of the participants. However, it is not. It is a thunderously masculine ritual of self-hatred devoid of meaning, producing precisely zero carry for the field. Worse, the arguments on Gamesnetwork have now begun to inspire and provoke articles in journals which are just as deliriously meaningless.

Conclusion

The culture of the GamesNetwork list is now completely poisonous. We wait on the list for arguments to emerge and to be rude to tourists in the meantime. Very serious opportunities for discussion are further fragmented not because there needs to be an email list - but because there is GamesNetwork, and it kills intelligent conversation.

It would be better to have no list like it at all. Should there be a list, it needs heavy theming and moderation and a diverse culture of research multiplicities, pointed at contemporary issues. The current list seriously disrupts the ability to have a collective conversation with your peers.

kari-shma: A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:28:32 -0500

kari-shma:

A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED Lights

The Luminarie De Cagna is an imposing cathedral-like structure that was recently on display at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

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Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:46:20 -0500

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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:01:52 -0500

nevver: Why so glum, chum?

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:55:57 -0500

nevver:

Why so glum, chum?

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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:35:05 -0500

freddycainee: YOU JUST WALKED INTO THE WRONG HOOD MOTHERFUCKER

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:27:55 -0500

freddycainee:

YOU JUST WALKED INTO THE WRONG HOOD MOTHERFUCKER

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:17:15 -0500

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:30:59 -0500

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:55:03 -0500

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Santorum “glitter-bombed” at South Carolina Republican primary

Members of Occupy Charleston “glitter-bombed” Rick Santorum at the tail end of his speech here at the Citadel tonight. - PhotoBlog

This isn’t very nice but it sure as hell is fierce.

You know what else isn’t nice? Everything about Rick Santorum.

Zing.

Holy FUCK!!! Santorum’s face is priceless, it’s like the photographer caught him just as he realized what was happening.

Ba-bam. Nice.

The dude behind him is so not amused. XD

it looks like someone is literally jizzing glitter on him

South Carolina.

I love you but stop harassing people.

Even if this is funny.

So I generally don’t like harassing people (and seriously Occupy folks why are you even at a Republican primary you’re not going to agree with them anyways) but.

That guy’s face. In the background. So distant. It’s like he’s thinking “Oh…I left the stove on… :c” as someone gets glittered directly in front of him.

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:53:12 -0500

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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:23:40 -0500

promieniowanie: http://www.coreyfishes.com/

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:00:07 -0500

promieniowanie:

http://www.coreyfishes.com/

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Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:00:03 -0500

rhea137: Les Oreades (1902) by William Adolphe Bouguereau

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:05:26 -0500

rhea137:

Les Oreades (1902)

by William Adolphe Bouguereau

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Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:05:19 -0500

cratered: The flair far detail and subtle handling of marble...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:05:11 -0500

cratered:

The flair far detail and subtle handling of marble texture emerges powerfully in a close-up of a figure from the late first or early second century A.D., National Geographic, October 1981

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