Video Games on Overthinking It

Open Thread for November 6, 2009

Welcome to the start of the Christmas shopping season, Overthinkers! Here’s the week gone by: Some Oscar-bait opening this weekend: Precious, a film about a black teenager who rises up from crippling poverty, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, … Continued

Through the Player’s Eyes

I was reading an essay called “Art and Answerability” by Mikhail Bakhtin the other day, where he makes the claim that one of the most important differences between novels and dreams is that in novels, we see the main character … Continued