General mind-dump of Jonas Wæver
One of my game-design-interested friends has serious beef with the genre term “Role-Playing Game”. Of what use, he asks, is a genre that encompasses such tremendously different games as Fallout 
and Diablo ?
It’s a good question. I’m not certain I really like the genre term either, although I do find it of general (if slightly vague) use when estimating whether a given game is worth buying. But what is an RPG? First… I guess I have to deal a bit with what genre is.
Chris Avellone just moved from MySpace to LiveJournal. This happened 3 days after I moved from LJ to this place.
Now, I like it here. But if there’s one thing OTP doesn’t have… it’s Chris Avellone.
Typical.
Wow okay. I saw Pan’s Labyrinth at a special screening yesterday; what a movie. It’s amazing that it actually won all those Oscars, because it seems so unamerican. It definitely feels like a sort of movie which would never have been posible to do in the US, but more power to the Mexicans for that, I guess.
Pan’s Labyrinth is poetic, cruel, beautiful, terrible, amazing, and grim. It’s a war movie and a fairy tale. And it’s definitely not for children. It’s the most equilibristic allegory I have ever seen. You should go see it, if you can.
I’m getting sort of tired of LiveJournal, although I like some of the new features they added. I just don’t like having my blog hosted outside of OTP, where everything else I do is located. I noticed Kieron Gillen and Jesper Juul both use Wordpress, and if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me. This way, I have a lot more control over the layout as well, so I’ll probably change it away from just the default (but nice) design soon enough.
I’ll be adding my old LiveJournal posts to this blog over the weekend, but there are a lot of them, so we’ll see how far I get.
January was the Month of Exams for the first semester, and as such, I turned in two papers. One was an insignificant Culture and Communication Theory paper of 7 pages that would either be passed or failed, the other was an important 15-page Media History paper which was to be graded on the 13-scale (apparently we switch to the new 12-scale this summer) and will actually show up on my final graduation papers.
I spent one evening writing the C&CT paper, whereas I took a whole week off from work to study intensively and write the Media History paper. Obviously the important one got an only slightly above-average grade (9, if you must know), whereas my C&CT paper generated a surprisingly excited reply from my teacher. Typical, eh?
I suspect it was just that he hadn’t read much about media convergence (the subject of my paper) before, but it can’t be half-bad if it managed to get him interested in the subject. Thus, I’ve put it on the FTP for you to read. But I’ll warn you in advance: It was written in Danish and I’m not sufficiently proud of it to translate it, so if you can’t read Danish, don’t bother. Otherwise, here’s a quick 7-page overview of some things that have been written about the phenomenon of media convergence 
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