linkspams must die

• Why Malcom Gladwell Matters (And Why That's Unfortunate). Amusing takedown of that Blink/Outliers/etc guy. See also Culturalism, Gladwell, and Plane Crashes, featuring Gladwell himself arguing on the internet :P


• The Banality of Genius—at first I wasn't sure I really wanted to spam this, as the author's biases are pretty transparent if you've read his other stuff—but I've been turning this one over in my head from time to time for the past couple weeks so I figured it's interesting enough to share.

the last of us playthrough: fuck pittsburgh edition

If I were writing for Rock Paper Shotgun or something, I could totally babble a bunch of pretentious nonsense about why the game I'm currently obsessed with is objectively awesome and artful or something.

But if I were being 100% honest with myself, I would admit that the point where I went from "this is fun" to "this is zomgbbqawesome" probably started somewhere around the point when I realized, "okay, as much as the southern-dude-from-the-south-with-a-thick-accent is such a zombie apocalypse stereotype... damn, Joel's accent is puh-ri-tee fuckin' hot."

...the game has other merits, though, I promise!

( assorted thoughts )

( assorted thoughts involving very vague spoilers up through the suburbs portion )

In conclusion, I'm like only halfway through and there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to beat this before Friday and then I'm going to be in the forest until Monday night and sob why can't I plug my PS3 into a tree ;_;

i just want to find out what happens and then probably cry a lot and then write some terrible fanfiction about it okay