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Why You Should Watch 64 Games of Soccer in a Month: Sunday, June 13th Edition
Game #6: Algeria vs. Slovenia ( Read more... ) -
Why You Should Watch 64 Games of Soccer in a Month: Saturday, June 12th edition
Game #3: South Korea vs. Greece (7:30 AM on ESPN ( Read more... ) -
Why You Should Watch 64 Games of Soccer in a Month: Friday, June 11th Edition
So, first of all, a quick overview of how the World Cup works. First there is the group stage. This is a set of round robin tournaments among four teams. The groups are selected as follows: One team from the best teams in the tournament. One team from either Asia, North America, or Oceania. One team from either Africa or South America. One team ( Read more... ) -
Nintendo Project: Battle of Olympus and Battleship
Exploration is a paradoxical goal for a video game. Indeed, it is a paradoxical goal in general - after all, it's not so much a thin line as no line whatsoever between exploration and being lost ( Read more... ) -
Nintendo Project: Battle Chess and Battle Tank
Electronics are inexorably linked to the speed of light, and with it the notion of high speed. It is implicit in the design of video games, where a flick of a controller button is expected to show up in real time on the screen. It is thus a surprise, sometimes, to go back and remember how slow video games used to be. The most memorable case is, of ( Read more... ) -
Nintendo Project: Batman Trifecta
It is a mistake to treat Batman as if he is a character. Batman, along with Superman, is the apotheosis of the Modernist "machine made out of words" image of writing. Batman is a set of narrative functions - a set of capabilities. He is defined not as Bruce Wayne but as a particular mode of narrative. Ontologically speaking, Batman always wins ( Read more... ) -
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Nintendo Project: Dissertation Defense
No game this time. Or perhaps every game ( Read more... ) -
Nintendo Project: 10 Baseball Games
Baseball, America’s supposed national pastime, represents a pastoral tradition in America that, if it ever existed, is long since dead, though at whose hands one cannot readily tell. A sport beloved by a particular rarified middle class impossibly distant from the very agrarian nature that the pleasant greenery represented by the baseball diamond ( Read more... ) -
Nintendo Project: Barker Bill's Trick Shooting and Bard's Tale
I taught Amiri Baraka the other day in class. As one would expect, my class was not overly fond of Baraka, viewing him, like good little middle class moderately liberal college students, as a sort of reverse racism. I would fault them for their shoddily timid interpretations, but it's not as though I did not go through the same phase. And it is not ( Read more... )