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Daily Clarity from Hawkes: For the benefit of Mr. Hsu
Gaming journalism as a print medium is dying.
It’s a natural progression for gamers, seeing as we’re very impatient and on-demand type of people. Most magazines need a two month lead time, making exclusives and real behind the scenes items old news by the time they hit stands.
It’s sad really, because as Maj Malfunction once [...]
Daily Clarity from Hawkes: Ben Heck pwns all “geeks”
With each new product, I feel like a geek wanna-be. Like I’m not worthy to carry the title or that maybe I’m more nerd than geek. Sure, I love games, and computers, and tinkering with them. I enjoy my sci-fi and anime and reading like a good geek should. I worship [...]
Daily Clarity from Hawkes: The good old days make a comeback
The Internet was still an early teenager. Nirvana was a long ago memory, and OJ was just about to get acquitted. My brother had moved to Virginia and had taken with him a rag tag group of mutual friends. One of them, Joe, I had only met on several occasions. [...]
Daily Clarity from Hawkes: Don’t believe the hype
The US Dollar is weak sauce. There’s no denying that. If it were a horse I would have shot it by now and moved on. Thankfully, people in Europe don’t have to deal with my money issues; they seem to be doing alright.
Well at least they were, until the greed factory that [...]
Daily Clarity from Hawkes: Marry me Stephen King!
With this paragraph, I thee wed:
What really makes me insane is how eager politicians are to use the pop culture — not just videogames but TV, movies, even Harry Potter — as a whipping boy. It’s easy for them, even sort of fun, because the pop-cult always hollers nice and loud. Also, it allows legislators [...]
