Administrators at the Schofield school where a teacher has been placed on administrative leave for reading supplemental material to his students without following proper procedure say they expect the matter to wrap up quickly. Apparently earlier reports that the teacher was also reading pornographic material off the internet are untrue. Aiken Public Safety officials have now […]
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Over at Kotaku, Luke Plunkett has an interesting post up on the sort of conflict of interest some gaming journalists and websites face when penning honest reviews of video games. To briefly summarize, long, long ago in a galaxy far away (called simply The Year of Our Lord 2007) a writer at GameSpot, Jeff Gerstmann, […]
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I have a love-hate relationship with the 1997 adaptation of Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. I get that it was intentionally cheesy, and that cheese was part of the charm, but I couldn’t help but think it might have been so much more. Anyways, there are apparently two sequels already made for the film, and now we’re […]
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I’m not sure what to make of BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka’s apology to Mass Effect fans for the mass disappointment surrounding the finale of the third game. The angry fan response was “painful” to hear, Muzyka writes. “Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics […]
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In our ongoing discussion of Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, and storytelling in video games one thing that occurred to me is that in the halls and dungeons of Skyrim there are simply too many books. Worse, the majority of these books are almost entirely useless. Each tome is filled with one story or another, and I […]
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[updated below] [Read my final update to this story here. Rumors that the teacher read pornography off the internet appear to be patently false.] Ender’s Game was one of just three books that a South Carolina teacher read to students and was suspended for when an angry parent complained. Since we’ve determined that it’s entirely […]
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[updated below] [Read my final update to this story here. Rumors that the teacher read pornography off the internet appear to be patently false.] In South Carolina a teacher has been placed on administrative leave for reading excerpts of Orson Scott Card’s science fiction classic Ender’s Game to his middle school students. “The parent that reported him to […]
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Tom Bissell has written quite possibly the best thing about Skyrim that I’ve read. There’s so much to admire (and, as a writer, to envy) in his review, I’m tempted to just excerpt the whole thing. I won’t, naturally, but I’m going to lean heavily on his observations. Skyrim is truly a great, absorbing game, […]
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Ridley Scott’s Prometheus will hit theaters almost exactly 33 years after the release of Scott’s most famous film, Alien. This is understandably generating a lot of buzz, and I am both extremely optimistic and a little bit trepidatious about the film (which made my top science fiction films to watch in 2012 list.) Here’s a few reasons […]
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Mike Daisey lied in service of a greater truth, if we are to believe the man himself. ‘s defense of Daisey is compelling and intriguing. And while I likely fall somewhere between Worstall’s and Daisey’s views on the promises and perils of globalization, I think it’s worth taking a look at what both men have […]
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