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Re: The Rewind: Revisiting ‘nostalgia, ULTRA’ Six Years Later

CantEvenGo — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:10:57 -0000

well written.

Re: Erasing the Pop-Culture Scholar, One Click at a Time

CantEvenGo — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:20:45 -0000

I'm guilty of this, so i will work harder to respond quickly. I did include my research in my Twitter bio recently, and that seems to have been a good move.

Re: Injustice at Universities Runs Deeper Than Names

CantEvenGo — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:27:54 -0000

HBCUs were DEFINITELY constructed based upon a history and ideology of racism. It's called "segregation".

Re: R&B’s Dying Landscape & The Rise of Ty Dolla Sign

CantEvenGo — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:34:52 -0000

i can't be the only one wishing that "Stand For" would have made the album. it so fits in with the overall aesthetic. I'm not as enamored with Credit - the production feels generic - but the album is cohesive and well done.

Re: 15 best Android fitness apps and workout apps

CantEvenGo — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:57:37 -0000

The Walk (by the Zombies Run dev) is pretty solid as well.

Re: Origins: 18 Detroit tracks from Dantiez and Kevin Saunderson

CantEvenGo — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:08:28 -0000

Can we get these as a one-track mix? I'd ask for a zip, but that's just being greedy...

Re: The Blast

CantEvenGo — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:30:21 -0000

You rock, man. I have to turn in a rationale for listing my course as fulfilling the University's Race and Ethnicity requirement, and your last few sentences perfectly encapsulated my thinking. I'm going to paste the first para here for context (if this is threadjack i apologize) but THANK YOU.

"This course redirects students from popular instrumental understandings of information and communication technologies as value-free artifacts towards a cultural-historical framing of technologies as products and producers of cultural values, specifically focusing on race, ethnicity, and racial ideology.

While I understand that the LSA [Liberal Sciences and Arts) R&E requirements ask for a focus on racism and intolerance, I feel that this approach diminishes the positive accomplishments of non-Whites involved with ICTs. Moreover, this approach decertifies the undiminished rhetorical power of White racial ideology, which gains power from its discursive flexibility. Instead, I prefer to approach issues of discrimination by focusing on the social construction of Whiteness and White racial ideology across time periods and technologies. In this way, I can highlight the incorporation of rights, privileges, and privileged representation of Whites in ICTs while also highlighting the positive accomplishments of non-Whites that exist regardless of racism."

Re: MIAUN V4 – MIUI Theme Design Competition 2nd Prize Winner

CantEvenGo — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:04:05 -0000

Thank you for the mirrors!

Re: MIAUN V4 – MIUI Theme Design Competition 2nd Prize Winner

CantEvenGo — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:36:06 -0000

do you have a mirror? the mediafire link has been deleted.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of three Nexus 7 units, courtesy of Poweramp!

CantEvenGo — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:30:15 -0000

I'd love to win.

Re: The Kelty Impact 30 is a Great Light Adventure Backpack

CantEvenGo — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:54:42 -0000

not quite a daypack, but the Lululemon Cruiser backpack is one of the best all-around backpacks around.

Re: Lin Takes The Weight - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Entertainment - The Atlantic

CantEvenGo — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:55:27 -0000

This article made me miss PopLicks.

Also, a dream team pairing of ODub and TNC?!? I'd read that blog E'RYDAY!!!!!one1!!!

Re: Morning Coffee - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic

CantEvenGo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:04:29 -0000

I love this movie! i've constantly complained that i want more movies with REGLAR black folks...nerdy negrohemians like myself, so i was happy to watch it and watch it again.

On a related note, have y'all seen 'A Good Day to be Black and Sexy"? Some really nice portraits of Black intimacy, but a few problematic moments sprinkled throughout.

Re: Joystick Division - Mitch Krpata - Doing it wrong: Are game reviewers bad at video games?

CantEvenGo — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:20:01 -0000

I'd venture to say the same for academics who cover games. it certainly is for me.

Re: Giveaway: Win a nVidia Power Pack - 10.1 Galaxy Tab, Jambox Speakers, Keyboard dock and more!

CantEvenGo — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:57:52 -0000

I'm new to this Android thing...just got a VZW Fascinate. I'd like to dip my toes in the gaming waters, tho!

Re: Weekend Giveaway: A Tagged Tumi Bag

CantEvenGo — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:19:41 -0000

My favorite pieces of art are ceramic and glassware. I love the way that shape, color, and form work together in a piece meant to be held and fondled. I love industrial design, but only when it's accessible to all rather than just the rich.

Re: Summer Burn-Off 2010, Part 1

CantEvenGo — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:54:16 -0000

yeah...i'm like Jay - i also just discovered Shadow Complex and i'm LOVING it. i'm trying to decide if i want to do another run thru - i think you can do a game plus, right?

Kirk - i JUST ran across this from 1UP; they asked devs at E3 about hidden easter eggs in their games and Guerilla Games contributed this one:

Killzone 3:
You know Rico, that total hardass from the Killzone series overall? Guerilla Games managing director Herman Hulst reveals his secret origin, "Rico is modeled after one of our artists, and in real life, he's the nicest and gentlest guy you'll know."

man...how would that change KZ if the main character was a reluctant pacifist?

Re: Summer Burn-Off 2010, Part 1

CantEvenGo — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:44:40 -0000

Of your four choices, i'm either playing or have recently finished 3 of them. Having finished KZ2, i'm still a little bemused that so many people care about how tall Sev is. To me, the greater travesty is that Rico gets promoted to lead the squad but doesn't get to lead the narrative, leaving voiceless Sev as the 'blank slate' upon which the player must imprint their own personality. Am i wrong (as a gamer AND as a gamer of color) to want Rico to become a more reflective leader and major part of the narrative?

WRT to the Saboteur, i TOTALLY agree about the Nina Simone. My S.O. was watching me play one evening and to her own surprise started singing along with Nina while i was cruising the French countryside. Of course, her involvement ended as soon as i got into (yet another) overmatched firefight, but that one moment helped her to better understand my fascination with the game. And i am fascinated - although Devlin is really a huge waste of character development (a profane irishman? you don't say :| ), the developer's attention to detail in their rendering of WWII paris is remarkable in and of itself. I fell in love with the city's design and rendering - both black and white and color - and that helped me enjoy the relentless busywork necessary to actually play the game without dying every seven minutes. I also enjoyed that the developer actually put Black Parisiens in the story, both as a narrative segment and as some of the NPC pedestrians. It added to the believability of the setting for me; although i don't think many gamers know or care that France had a couple of African colonies, i do and i appreciated the developer's nod to the historical realities of Africans in Paris during the Second World War.

As far as AITD...i'm still trying to adjust to the controls. i'll get back to you on that one. So far, however, i'm enjoying the work that the developer put in on developing an atmosphere of weirdness that is reinforced by the game mechanics. Almost as good as the mechanics/atmosphere work on dead space, imho.

Re: Open Thread At Noon - National - The Atlantic

CantEvenGo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:46 -0000

I would actually argue that critical formalism, not critical thinking (in the aristotelian sense, much less the critical race/gender movements) is what English and the humanities emphasize. As a professor in a professional graduate program that attracts lots of English majors, i find that many of them are great at deconstructing literature but sadly deficient when i ask them to reflect upon their own ethnocentrism and logocentrism.

then again, that could be a byproduct of living in the Midwest. /rimshot

Re: Is Your Feed Reader Becoming Boring?

CantEvenGo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:50:36 -0000

Corvida,

I think it's the style of presentation. I've tried lots of RSS readers (mac), and the static style of presentation doesn't work for me - it's too hierarchical, keeps me in a rigid reading pattern, and forces me to do more work to find new content from unexpected sources.

this isn't for everyone, but i can't live without Snackr. It's a news-ticker style feed reader that's synced to my Google Reader account, and it helps me discover new stuff every day.

anytime i come across an interesting blog, i subscribe to it with GR. i keep snackr open all the time (i'm currently pushing over 200 feeds now) and it scrolls new items from a random selection of blogs across the bottom of my screen. i see more stuff from blogs i wouldn't usually see, and when i come across good stuff i'll open the post in my browser.

Snackr requires Adobe Air, and some people complain about memory usage, but as a change of pace i'd highly recommend it

Re: Has Traditional Black Media Missed the Bus?

CantEvenGo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:18:29 -0000

BlackPlanet is the 5th largest social network, i agree. but it is considered a "niche" SN because of its overwhelmingly Black demographic.

i'm not sure i agree with your statement about investments in AA-targeted internet properties, tho. Whither goest MSBET? for that matter, BET.com is only now beginning to use its resources to be more than a video-delivery and tv-show promoting website.

Supporting an internet business is decidedly different from supporting brick-and-mortar businesses. the revenue streams are different and the demands by users of of the medium (for timely AND relevant content) seem to be a major stumbling block in terms of sustainability.

I'm hopeful for theRoot.com, given its backing by WaPo. But that same backing makes me give the site the side-eye because i'm not entirely convinced of their (WaPo's) ethos w/regard to Black culture.

Re: Has Traditional Black Media Missed the Bus?

CantEvenGo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:08:27 -0000

Given the limited local markets many black newspapers serve and the resultant small revenue streams from advertising, i can understand why they were reluctant to invest in the Web at a time when they saw the big dogs (NYTimes, WaPo) go in and lose money hand over fist.

Essence (at least pre-Katrina), and the Johnson Publishing clan were even worse IMHO; they HAD resources but treated the web as a direct-mail service to drive readers to their print issues. bad move.

Moreover, early attempts at Black information provision online didn't do well - NetNoir, everythingblack.com - because their target audience hadn't yet reached the web in numbers that could support them. Other properties that reached a moderate level of success were bought up by larger concerns (BlackVoices, Africana) that immediately diluted their message in order to "reach a broader audience".

i think that Katrina was a wake up call for Black websites and bloggers - they realized the paucity of Black-oriented news available on the web and stepped up to meet the demand.