Issue : People : Frenetic

Skater XL is a game about evolution.

I guess... Maybe to kids not raised on golden age Tony Hawk, this looks hype. To me, this shit looks somewhere between Thrasher Skate and Destroy for the PS2 and OlliOlli shot by Grant Brittan after a few drinks. Whatever, an open market is an open market.

Speaking of, wow, Facebook sold your data to the highest bidder. Tell me more about the shit that has been in their EULA since the beginning. Wanting FB gone is so 2011, wanting FB gone without understanding how ingrained in the sediment of the modern internet the organization is silly as fuck.

That is not how Pandora gets all that music back into the box. It's out and flying and now that the recipe has been perfected the employees of silicon valley high will be spreading punk rock market strategies into question marks at different companies under different names with different "don't be evil" logos with different morally autistic CEO's selling friendship using platform systems that were literally the reasons they had no friends irl.

The journalists are smelling blood, but where? They are just hurt and desperate for the public to listen to them again, just once, just on one thing, just desperate as hell, the sad old grumpy good men and women they are. They never learned how to play when the truth wasn't the end all be all objective. The truth will be fine, as it always will be, it's just sleeping.

Politicians sound insane when talking about technology, no way to sugar coat it. It's basically witchcraft to them. Banks are this close to coming out of the closet as libertarian and legit hiding physical money in mattresses from this "Crypto cloud" their nerdy cousin told them about on Thanksgiving in Turks.

And the people that run tech these days were basically bad by default. Been running the table so long against people so convinced they had it figured out that by the time it all comes out the public is so addicted to the service they would use the service or subsurface of the service to revolt against the service.

Politicians are made by the service and slaves to the service by way of votes and data, so they would ask the service how to properly market against the service on the service without hurting the feelings of the service, and business will continue to make money hand over fist with the service till the service don't do nothing for them no more. Cause business only has one true god, the internet is just another vessel the holy ghost travels in. They come and go.

Also, what happens when all the rubes don't have social media no more? Idle minds etc... etc... Keep them logging into echo chambers and describing shadows on the wall. Please. The alternative is just... yikes.

So yeah, bad company got caught being bad, and? Oh wait is Skater XL the mobile game that ooooh ok now I remember that game is not bad. Heard it's launching on Steam early access tomorrow. Nice. Also rest in peace TC rest in peace Tall T love is smart hatred is dum these are big facts also go out there and do great things, I really really fucking believe in you. Serious. Also Jerbz.

The Protoculture Mixtape : Issue: Games: Phrentitis  

Issue : Games : Millefleur

Headliner: NoviNews is a game about linear design.

It's a game about the news. It's good, I dunno what else to say.

Anyway, so we just saw That new Spider-Man film... It was very good. Dare I say the best of the Spider-man films. It was made by Sony, go figure.

Fuck it, I got nothing. Have to pack for Japan. Peace. Also All the shit I normally say, also Jerbz.

The Protoculture Mixtape: Issue : People: Flowars

Issue :Games: Epitome

ATOM: RPG is a game about Fallout.

A long time ago to a kid and a short time ago to an old fuck I worked at this place that made home cameras where you could spy on like, your dog, or babies, or maybe a burglar if they broke into your house and stood in a place that hit the angle of the where you set the teddy bear on the nightstand or whatever.

I dunno, I wasn't in marketing then so I don't remember what the c-suite claimed they were used for, I just tested them. To reiterate, this was a long time ago, before the time that these type of cameras became popular, then prevalent. This was back when people assumed they had some kind of right to privacy, so all of this was like, "Wait what now?"

Most complaints were about masturbating. People were seriously worried that the camera would catch them masturbating so they wanted to know how to turn it off whenever they wanted so they could masturbate and then just turn it back on so they could catch their significant other cheating.

I never found the bug. I mean the easy fix is if you got it set up in the bedroom just jack off in the bathroom. I guess the problem was for super paranoid people that had them everywhere. I don't know, I just threw away the tickets. That was actually the problem with the company as a whole, thinking back, a distinct lack of respect for ethics when it comes to technology.

The company didn't seem to be that worried about if they should do something, or if it was legal. They were of the mind that they just made the stuff, they had a legal team that made sure that the wording in the EULA was solid in that no shit was on them, and it was just a matter of how hi-fidelity was the image of that dude your lady was caught with, divorce courts loved this company, bankrolled a lot of Lawyers' Barbados trips, I imagine.

I got fired because of my big mouth, yet again. Asked one of the C-levels if they had ever been spied on privately and if so how did it feel. he said no, I presented him with the raw reel of the cameras I had placed all over the fucking building, to test.

As I was being escorted off the premises the security guard told me, " Ma nigga, you really go out of your way to prove a point." I responded, "Nah, I just needed a Christmas break."

Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh, ATOM: RPG. It's fallout, basically. Which means its fuckin' dope. It's coming out of early access this week. Check it out, or don't, whatever. Also shouts to information also r.i.p TC r.i.p Tall T, love is wise hatred is foolish, go out and do great things, I believe in you, and jerbz.

The Protoculture Mixtape: Issue : Games: Precis

Issue : Games: Vitiate

War of Rights is a game about unions.

A gaming union is an easy thing to want, but a hard thing to accomplish. I am proud of the folks in the UK working to make it happen. Brave souls stepping up to the line and taking a shot. It's gonna be a funny feeling for them when they look back and no one else is behind them, but everyone is giving them heart emojis from the safety of their jobs.

Because that is life right now in the video game industry, everyone knows it is fucked up, with the overtime, zero-hour contracts, lack of inclusion, systemic misogyny, and all of the rapes, but that is just, like, life to most of these folks. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and all of that.

Publishers and developers are gonna fight for the southern way of life, global corporations are gonna fight, the tech industry is def gonna fight because that is what gaming is at the end of the day, a sub-sect of the big bad.

And the people, they are gonna fall in line, because no matter how tired of the status quo they are they are more tired of fighting and losing to the status quo because no one helps them when the chips are down.

Back in the day unions got started because it was a life or death thing, people were being worked to death, pay was horrible-bad. Whole families were being affected, no one respects video games enough to even understand the problem, let alone devote energy past "thoughts and prayers" to fix it. Right now it's like unionizing against mass shootings in the states. Who wouldn't want to, but also who would want to risk getting mass shot over it?

I care about this particular issue, especially for my QA family in the States. Maybe I should put my money and network where my mouth is on this one. But then again I have been banished to the island of broken toys, so what can I do? Good question.

Shouts to information, rest in peace TC, rest in peace Tall T. Love is wise hatred is foolish, the UK is out there doing great things, we should all take notice. Also Jerbz.

The Protoculture Mixtape: Issue: People: Vice