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1. Grandy  •  Jul 15, 2009 @2:56 pm
   

   1. I wanted to get all righteously indignant and go off on a rant about how awesome 1986 was, and welcome do it, but for the tiny fact that it is impossible to take this seriously. Also, it’s timecubish in it’s entertainment value, which means we must preserve it.

   2. But Ultima IV still seriously pwns.

2. Ken  •  Jul 15, 2009 @3:14 pm
   

   I thought your lead-in was excessively satirical.

   Then I saw the charts.

3. Patrick  •  Jul 15, 2009 @3:26 pm
   

   Piss off Mr. Subtle.

   Dr. Elliot McGucken, Ph.D., is almost but not quite as cool as J. R. “Bob” Dobbs himself!

   And for your lackey David, I’m quite happy, and proud, to point out that this man is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina.

4. Patrick  •  Jul 15, 2009 @3:45 pm
   

   Mock scorn for Ken aside, I encourage everyone to read the diagrams supporting the full patent application. Each and every page is a goldmine of weirdness.

   Grandy compared it to Timecube. Usually comparing anything to Timecube means one lacks perspective, because nothing is as strange as Timecube.

   But this is pretty close.

5. Mike  •  Jul 15, 2009 @5:41 pm
   

   Best thing ever on the Internet? I think so.

6. David  •  Jul 15, 2009 @7:23 pm
   

   This demonstrates beyond question that Pepperdine is a world class college university.

7. Mark  •  Jul 15, 2009 @7:57 pm
   

   Quote Rand, and the player (and by extension America) will convert the loose woman into a God-fearing virgin warrior for freedom and justice, suitable for marriage.

   You lost me here, McGucken!! I usually pass Libertarian Orthodoxy Test, but if the choice is between chaste objectivist god-warriors, and sexy communist slut-vampires, then sign me up for the Cheka, comrade!

8. stevedore knot  •  Jul 15, 2009 @8:45 pm
   

   http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&pagenumber=15#lastpost

   omg

   That will be $69.95 for the collector’s edition…
   Posted by Dr. Elliot McGucken on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:31:00 EDT in
   That will be $69.95 for the collector’s edition, complete with a metal box. For $179.95, you will also get a life-like Gold 45 Revolver replica, based on the single-action Colt .45–the Peacemaker Smokewagon–the Judge Colt and His Jury of Six.

   http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/DrElliotMcGucken/1169/

9. Dwight Brown  •  Jul 16, 2009 @5:22 am
   

   Wouldn’t “Gold-plated .45 Revolvers of Love” be a great band name?

10. Grandy  •  Jul 16, 2009 @6:35 am
    

    There is something pure and wonderous in the “moral” outcome of encountering a Lenin quoting women being to shoot her.

11. stevedore knot  •  Jul 16, 2009 @7:14 am
    

    awesome interview: http://www.ae2n.net/page7/page39/page39.html

    How do you conceive or envision “entrepreneurship” and it’s context in Arts education?

    Entrepreneurship was perhaps best defined by Shakespeare in a Midsummer Night’s Dream:

    The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling,

    Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

    And as imagination bodies forth

    The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen

    Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

    A local habitation and a name.

    Entrepreneurship is about giving “an airy nothing a local habitation and a name.”

    Artists naturally do this, and with a bit of wisdom regarding the law and business, they too can make their passions their professions. They can incorporate and protect their IP. The act of original creation is the hard part–the poet’s vision is where the everlasting value lies.

    And when one realizes that our laws originate within Story and Myth, and that all our business principles are based on such classical laws, one sees that artists, prophets, and poets–those who conceived of the fundamental framework of freedom–were the original entrepreneurs.

    At the end of the day, I want to help artists everywhere make their passions their professions.

    I hope AE&T can help!

12. stevedore knot  •  Jul 16, 2009 @8:25 am
    

    “When I was a fanboy, I spake as a fanboy, I understood as a fanboy, I thought as a fanboy: but when I became a man, I put away fanboy things.”

    http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090709/2322/The_Novel_quotGold_45_RevolverIdeas_Have_Consequences_Moral_Premisequot_Game_Technologies_Will_Be_Worth_Billions_of_Dollars.php

    awesome:

    Yes–to you and many fanboy MBAs, killing hookers and unarmed women may be exciting and titillating and profound, while words exalting the timeless wisdom of the Great Books and Classics are “inane” “walls of text.” Just as Sauron created armies of soulless Orcs in The Lord of The Rings, the fiatocracy is creating armies of fatherless MBA fanboys in our real world (who plundered/destroyed Merrill/AIG/BEar/Lehman as if they were playing GTA/Fallout). The fanboy MBAs lack the Zeus/Moses spirit of classic, epic justice; so that they find the glorious Constitution and its epic, classical underpinnings to be nothing more than inane, “giant walls of text.” The fiatocracy has succeeded in an epic manner–just look at our soulless games, our soulless culture, our soulless academies, and our withering families and economy, for Aristotle reminds us that “when storytelling declines, the result is decadence.” Do you really think you can chainsaw Aristotle with that Lancer there, or blow away Socrates with your mere BFG? Even if you do, his words will yet dictate tomorrow’s renaissance in games:

13. Grandy  •  Jul 16, 2009 @9:01 am
    

    Well, that was a hell of a thing.

14. Lynn Oppenheimer  •  Jul 16, 2009 @2:06 pm
    

    haha haha ahah–check it out:

    “I don’t know what’s up with this guy.

    As a fellow who is indeed working on creating games with meaningful choices (in between protracted bouts of procrastination) it seems unlikely that I’d need to worry about his patent. The concept is so abstract that he may well be trying to copyright choice itself, and he missed his chance to establish original precedent of proof of concept some time around when programmers invented the If statement .

    If he’s making a spectacle out of himself to make us painfully aware of what’s wrong in America, then he’s actually a brilliant liberal-leaning thinker who has infiltrated a Christian business school for the affluent. Bravo, well played sir.

    On the other hand, if he’s serious, then what we see here is one of the more dangerous forces in human existence. A man instilled with great passion to succeed while simultaneously having a moral structure shed of critical thought, with social connections that may well vindicate any resulting monstrosities he brings.

    I fear it may be the later. There reaches a certain point where intelligence, unchecked by awareness, can reach a crescendo of such overpowering madness that it becomes an infectious force that destroys everything and everyone it touches. Every once in awhile throughout history, we’re given a reminder that we haven’t evolved that far from an easily excitable Ape after all. I don’t worry so much about an individual, such is merely a symptom, so much as the social environment they must live in that such madness is created and empowered to act.” –from
    brokentoys.org/2009/07/15/for-the-love-of-ayn-rand-do-not-ever-quote-marx-or-the-world-will-perish-in-fire/

    haah h ah ah ah haha ahhaha

    “Wow.

    Ho-ly shit.

    (unable to formulate a response)

    (views gold45revolver.com)

    (head explodes)

    Pepperdine professor uses position to meet women, take swimsuit pics of them, post them to site somehow about gaming? Or… what? There’s nothing other than SI calendar pics on that site? *head explodes again*
    ”
    hahah ha ha ah aha ah ah a

    quote hayek=head explodes

    hahah haha

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