Reeking cryptids Skunkape Games, not content to merely exhume the Sam & Max classics, have now turned their profane, necrophile lust toward the beloved Poker Night At The Inventory. Inexplicably, my alter ego is featured in this game and continues to be even after these warlocks completed their dark ritual. But we love to challenge the reader – and lies are a great way to start.
A friend of mine was at a shindig a while ago for some kinda game, and he hadn’t really emerged from the event feeling much of anything and he was confused and disturbed by it. I was curious about it though, and he said I could check out his footage of the event so long as I didn’t tell anybody.
Whoops. That’ll learn you, huh? You dumb fucker.
I had asked him about a few of the super interesting revelations at the event, and he hadn’t even heard them. I’m listening to his own video, that he gave me, of him, being there, talking about something nobody knew at that time and it hadn’t even penetrated his consciousness. This is because events where you are supposed to play a game are the worst possible context in which to learn anything about games. There is certainly a social metagame that gets played at a very high level, but as far as doing anything even remotely associated with knowledge production? As the Italians say, “forget about it.”
There was recently a post from someone who had been fired from the Highguard studio, someone who had been burned as fuel and released into the air as exhaust. I would link it, but he took it town. He said all kinds of things, it won’t be hard to find; he was in torment and had a lot to say about everything, which in turn gave others an opportunity to say whatever they wanted to say anyway but now they had a n SEO-freighted reason. But one of the things he said was about the compliments they had received from people who had played the game were such that the game’s eventual reception utterly blindsided him.
I’ve told you such private press events are mostly useless for their stated purpose, and I am correct. You’re trying to learn a new game while talking to people who really need you to like it. It is very weird for any remotely conscious individual. But, also….most people aren’t assholes. If you like what you’re hearing, it’s probably not worth filing away.
(CW)TB out.