Unhelpful

More than 200 years after Thomas Paine made a sound case for an Age of Reason, America finds itself increasingly at odds with the very faculties of such an endeavor.

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The site’s had some extended down time. It’s been a byproduct of typical issues related to server moves and DNS changes; none of this will be interesting to the casual observer.

I’m writing something which could be the long-form successor to the “Love Letter to Apple” and “Love Letter to Novalogic” at the moment, and as the site was down during several of the most newsworthy weeks in U.S. history, that will probably provide inspiration as well. The only thing I’ll reassure you about is that I suspect I won’t indulge myself the luxury of thinking that you’re terribly interested in what I think of Afghani politics (or more accurately, lack thereof).

The machinery of gaming has run amok. Instead of serving creative vision, it suppresses it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it represses it. Instead of taking its cue from our most imaginative minds, it takes its cue from the latest month’s PC Data list list. Instead of rewarding those who succeed, it penalizes them with development budgets so high and royalties so low that there can be no reward for creators. Instead of ascribing credit to those who deserve it, it seeks to associate success with the corporate machine.

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Due to the length of this update, I’m forced to split it into sections. Here’s the rest.

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