RND/ to consider the bizarre ‘post Brexit’ cultural politics of Watch Dogs: Legion, in terms of a “Campaign For Real Cockneys” vs: M.U.N.T In which people living in the UK… Read more Watch Dogs Legion: Campaign For Real Cockneys vs. M.U.N.T →
RND/ to consider a new webcomic, featuring characters Ken and Andy from the great movie Dawn Of The Dead (Zack Snyder, 2004). Called “Ken and Andy’s Rooftop News”, the tag line is “Zombiepocalyptic dispatches and wild rumor.” Separated by a whole city block filled with deadly shambling flesheaters, gun store owner Andy and ex-cop Ken use white boards and markers on top of their respective rooftops to converse about daily life, and keep each other up to date with the latest info and developments in the land of the dead.… Read more Zombie webcomic: “Ken and Andy’s Rooftop News” →
RND/ to cybernetically control one’s breathing and heart rate, and consider the oh-so default (normalized) deadpan Hyper-Capitalist Cyberpunk irony of 2077’s raw videogame pre-order hype (already for purchase on Steam,… Read more Cyberpunk 2077 Is Dead (Pre-Order Hyped Up Whiteboy Edition) →
RND/ to consider poor old Rage 2, as perhaps the worst videogame of modern times – one crying out for a new theory of Hollow Videogaming to explain its particular… Read more Rage 2 as the worst (most hollow) videogame of modern times →
RND/ to consider how [/the laughable notion of] ‘1337 gam0rz’ are themselves (anti-ironically) cheated by the [/mere existence of the spectacle of the] culturally unregulated, multi-billion dollar Global Videogames Industry… Read more Git Gud? Leet Gamers Cheated By Global Videogaming →
RND/ to consider a disturbing Google transcript of a Youtube vlog post by author Megan Boyle. Megan Boyle is OK – a good person, and one should wish her only the best – to live long and prosper. When you were a child you were a treated kind but you were never brought up right You were always spoiled with a thousand toys but still you cried all night Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax And your father’s still perfecting ways of making sealing wax –… Read more Google Transcript Poem: Megan Boyle (What I Know And Don’t Know Today) →
RND/ to imagine a framed portrait of London with an abstract sky 5990 x 4827 .jpg [Insert semi inspirational but ultimately existentially disquieting quote about London here] — // how… Read more A portrait of London with abstract sky →
RND/ to consider five, text based conceptual new media art fragments A hyper real garden scene of sweet, strange hexstatic *wink* roses .zip file, 23.6MB: robert-what-hyper-real-fragments.zip — // how to play big science