In the last episode of Walking Dead, one of the characters explains his cavalier attitude about being lowered into a well to try to extract a zombie from the drinking water. He says he approached it as if he was playing Portal. “It’s a videogame,” he explains.
I appreciate the product placement, but I don’t really get a Portal vibe from that scene. It does vaguely recall a certain Valve game, but not Portal. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe Team Fortress 2.
Skyrim is putatively a game. More accurately, it’s a narrative loom.
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Is Alexander Payne’s The Descendants an effective story about a man’s struggle through a family crisis, or a maudlin soap opera with a made-for-TV sensibility? Depends on who you listen to on this week’s Qt3 Movie Podcast. At the 52-minute mark, for this week’s 3×3, we discuss our favorite uses of the color red. At least one of us is literally color blind.
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The wallet threat level isn’t high due to any new releases. There aren’t any, of course. Instead, the threat to your wallet is due to any holiday sales that may or may not be going on. But if you made it through Steam over the weekend — that front page of deals was deadly — you’re probably past the worst of it.
