Amanda and I spent the evening as a pair of fledgling cat burglars: a hacker and a recon expert. Playing the game BURGLE BROS., we successfully broke into and navigated our way through a 2 story office building, dodging guards, cracking a safe on each floor, and sneaking out with our loot: a gemstone ring and a yapping chihuahua!
How that dog ended up in a safe, I’ll never know. But I hope he was put in there because he was valuable and not because he was annoying.
For some reason, I’m the only person on Bandcamp who has spent money on this propulsive rock album from Argentina.
In honor of the birthday of Emcee Child, here’s a collection of some of his mixes, a custom single and a few Signal mixes he co-hosted that you may have missed in years gone by.
There’s this tweet I quite like from Mike Rosenthal that reads: “What if your fiance said ‘smell ya later’ and then got his nose shot off in the War? I’m crying now, I hate the immersive power of fiction”
I thought of it often while watching YouTube personality Markiplier play a very simple game for an hour and, despite really simplistic graphics and a hard-to-swallow high concept, find himself completely absorbed in a game where he’s trapped in a cell and asked to simply stay happy and play video games.
The meta-narrative of also being in a room, alone, trying to be happy and play video games might have got to him. There are several points in the video where, in the embedded video Mark shoots of himself while he plays, you can see real emotion as the isolation of the game draws him in and forces a very human reaction, despite the limitations of the medium.
It’s a pretty amazing thing to watch. Be ready to see the immersive power of fiction.