end route / restart

Fat boy birthday :)

I think about this piece by tcg artist Gapao a lot.

You have no idea

On the other hand, numerous scholars have argued that audience-led production of games, Including modding, is not new. Rather, these activities have become notable in the present moment because they represent a break from three decades of commercialized, centralized game development, which has drawn a distinction in the popular imagination between game designer and game player where previously no such distinction existed. Sotamaa writes that “it may be problematic to assume that there actually ever was a moment when we were able to distinguish game producers from consumers with relative ease”. The first cultural objects to be considered computer games were themselves created through unstructured, incremental homebrew-style development: games like Spacewar! were passed around and played primarily among the hacker elite at universities and research institutions, and it was these same players who continually made and recirculated changes to the game code. Digital games were co-creations of the commons in the very beginning. The dominance of opaque, gargantuan media conglomerates in game development was not a timeless order that is now finally giving way in the Internet era, but a moment of history like any other—with a beginning as well as, possibly, an end.

Well to be honest with you and the rest of the people in this stadium I would probably be touching him sensually

fiiine i cant stay mad at youuu