Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 05, 2011 5:00am PSTI'm still catching up on my RSS feeds from November and December. I haven't the foggiest what I was doing then but it apparently resulted on me getting very behind on reading things I very much enjoy. Hey! Let's go on a magical mystery tour together!
Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer Frictional Games wrote a splendid lengthy piece on 'How the player becomes the protagonist' in its spook-o-rama.
'Costumes: the Wearable Dialog' is a bit of an illustrated crash course in costume design. While its focus is on comics, the principles absolutely apply to video games too.
Inspired by the book Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide To Punks On Film, Everything Is Terrible! produced a seventeen-minute, four-part compilation of 'punks' in movies--parts one, two, three and four. Movie punks are such strange and wonderful creatures, absurd caricatures of caricatures, that I find them delightful. As you well know, movie punks are not workplace-friendly so do not invite them to yours.
Do your part for society and make dolls--action figures, if you will--poseable so they can ride dinosaurs and do other things unbecoming of girls, lasses, women or ladies.
That's enough links for today. Do you like links? Of course you do. Did you already see these on Digg or Reddit or Clickit or Punchit or Rockit or Sockit? Good for you, sunshine.
Nintendo kicks off 'Crowdfarter' promo for Game & Wario
Narco Terror announced from Deep Silver
Call of Duty: Ghosts teaser gives tenuous look at next-gen COD
OZombie will be Spicy Horse's take on Oz
Deadpool listed for Wii U on Amazon Canada
CastleStorm assaulting XBLA next week
Leisure Suit Larry HD delayed until late June
Rhode Island looking to sell Amalur intellectual property
Resident Evil: Revelations DLC coming throughout June
Seeing Red: A History of the Xbox 360's Red Ring of Death



Moving my 5.1 system into the living room as I never take advantage of it while it's plugged into my computer.
So I'm looking for a set of good 2.0 speakers (sorry sub fans, I hate the box sitting around) and a decent matching soundcard. I game mostly with headphones anyways so these just need to sound good for some music, but they do need to sound quite good.
I'm tempted by these ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836166006 ) speakers, or these (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836116043) as they look cool.
and this card ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829271001 ). Which may be way more than I need, but I hear good things about their sound quality.
I don't need 7.1, but it seems if you want decent sound quality, you buy something with a million and a half channels, even if you don't use them.
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