Something exciting landed in my mailbox today! #apwot #VideoGames #magazines

Full quote’s a bit too long for here but I made it a note on Substack: https://substack.com/@robotfanclub/note/c-45244885

Or you could buy the whole issue cause it’s great: https://shop.apwot.com/products/issue-3-special-edition

Again, credit to Grace Curtis for the most amazing quote I’ve read in a long time ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#apwot #flashgames #anticapitalism

Note by Simon Peng on Substack

I’ve never been as delighted and blown away by such a scathing (and accurate) description of the kinds of people who destroy artistic industries. It’s just… ❤️ I love it. The Flash boom was a creator-driven movement and no creator would design the system we have now. This is the work of vapid marrow-sucking venture capitalists wielding business degrees like truncheons. They are an army of amazingly boring people, men and women who could not pass a captcha test at gunpoint, who have convinced themselves that generating maximum profit at any cost is a fun and interesting thing to do with their finite time on earth. They are headteachers in spirit, if not in name. If we are to have any future we must stop taking these people as seriously as they take themselves. - Grace Curtis, “Flash Forward: A requiem for Nitrome - Kings of the Once-Mighty Web-Game.” A Profound Waste of Time Issue 3

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From Grace Curtis in #APWOT issue 3:
“...no creator would design the system we have now. This is the work of vapid marrow-sucking venture capitalists wielding business degrees like truncheons. They are an army of amazingly boring people, men and women who could not pass a captcha test at gunpoint, who have convinced themselves that generating maximum profit at any cost is a fun and interesting thing to do with their finite time on earth...”

The full quote is incredible. This is a masterpiece 🤌

Got APWOT number 3 in the mail last week. Just again a fantastic book. The art, interviews and write ups are always so inspiring.
#APWOT #print

If you like nicely produced print magazines, you might like to know the 4th issue of A Profound Waste of Time is currently funding. Back issues available through it too!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz/a-profound-waste-of-time-4

#APWOT #VideoGames #Magazines

Nice vacation day, by the beach, reading about #videogames
#APWOT

#5 - A Profound Waste of Time - Vol. 1

A critically acclaimed videogame culture magazine that pairs reflections and ideas of some of the best writers and developers in the industry with specially-commissioned illustrations from leading image-makers.

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/a-profound-waste-of-time-vol-1

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A PROFOUND WASTE OF TIME - VOL. 1

Jonathan Holmes, Toby Fox, Ashly Burch, Ojiro Fumoto, Dennis Wedin, Adrian Bauer, John "JJ" James, Temmie Change, Adam Heart, Rami Ismail, Hannah Nicklin, Kat Brewster, Adam Tierney, Dant Rambo, Jake Kaufman A Profound Waste of Time is a critically acclaimed videogame culture magazine that pairs reflections and ideas of some of the best writers and developers in the industry with specially-commissioned illustrations from leading image-makers. Rather than focusing on news and reviews, APWOT takes

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"You just backed A Profound Waste of Time”

Reads worse than it is. 🕷️

Issue 3 of this gorgeously written and designed videogame magazine is now on Kickstarter. #APWOT #videogames

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz/a-profound-waste-of-time-3

A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 3

The third instalment of the celebrated videogame magazine, featuring Fumito Ueda, Tim Schafer, Rodney Greenblat and more ...

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