If you’re under 13, it’s past your bedtime.<\/p>\n
Seriously, kid, get outta here.<\/p>\n
“My name is Wil Wheaton, and Jack Thompson<\/a> can suck my balls.”<\/span> “Any corporate lawyers here can suck it.”<\/span> “How firm do<\/span> you like your tip?”<\/span> “Well, there’s no barrier to entry…”<\/span> “Cockthirsty.”<\/span> One of my favorite things about Penny Arcade is that they don’t just use profanity; they are gleefully<\/span> profane. They celebrate the myriad ways in which language can be made more colorful through the use of metaphor, analogy, or nearly musical sequences of primal vocalizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s not cursing just for the sake of cursing–Tycho, the writer, uses all sorts of words to achieve his desired effect, and the juxtaposition of ten dollar words<\/a> with drunken-sailor-speak only emphasizes the importance of his choices.<\/p>\n Is a game bad<\/span>? These, dear reader, are important distinctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re under 13, it’s past your bedtime. Seriously, kid, get outta here. “My name is Wil Wheaton, and Jack Thompson can suck my balls.” – from the start of his keynote speech (download MP3) “Any corporate lawyers here can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– from the start of his keynote speech (download MP3<\/a>)<\/p>\n
– a non-profit lawyer, before asking her question<\/p>\n
– Tycho, sleazing up Gabe’s answer to an innocent Photoshop question<\/p>\n
– Gabe, sleazing up his own answer to an innocent art student question<\/p>\n
– Tycho & Gabe, having a Kevin Smith<\/a> moment<\/a> with the sign language interpreter<\/p>\n
Is it shit<\/span> (but not “the shit”<\/a>)?
Is it shitty<\/span>?
Is it so godawful that it ruptures the very fabric of space and time with the sheer overpowering force of its mediocrity<\/a>?<\/p>\n