tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387285221768321825.post5600445380211934528..comments2023-04-30T06:37:40.583-07:00Comments on The Monk's Brew: And In Other News, Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still DeadMichael Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06244248736498318137noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387285221768321825.post-15920599616762089242008-10-07T18:19:00.000-07:002008-10-07T18:19:00.000-07:00No worries, I appreciate the reconsideration. And ...No worries, I appreciate the reconsideration. And I have to say, you'd better be working on that movie. Your previous work has certainly raised expectations and I'll be all over it when it's ready. If there's any chance to get my name in the queue early, let me know...Michael Rubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06244248736498318137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387285221768321825.post-48395392084314002622008-10-07T11:05:00.000-07:002008-10-07T11:05:00.000-07:00My contemporaries at the event I went to last nigh...My contemporaries at the event I went to last night made sure to let me know I'm a putz for implying you were judging the whole game this way. If you're rating openings with the intention of then going in later to look at the "came on top" ones from the consensus, have at. Makes sense.<BR/><BR/>I certainly wait for the winners to arise before sending them to friends to play. Sadly, I do not play these games at all right now, because I'm too busy making a movie about them.Jason Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876338337658951047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387285221768321825.post-21257500165261163462008-10-06T09:13:00.000-07:002008-10-06T09:13:00.000-07:00Well, can I at least say it's cool to see you actu...Well, can I at least say it's cool to see you actually stop by here, Jason? Love your blog and the BBS Documentary was stellar.<BR/><BR/>I certainly agree that using something like this as an overall metric for a game is not the soundest plan. Judging an entire game based only on its introduction is neither fair nor adequate. But then again, that's not exactly what I'm trying to do.<BR/><BR/>You call it marketing, I call it the "hook." There are too many games to play, and not enough time to play them all. So I'm probably only going to play a few games. I could do it a couple of ways -- pick games at random and play them until I either finish them or can't take them anymore (which means I'll get through a handful), or wait until other people play and review them and just play the ones that other people like (which doesn't appeal to me or my tastes).<BR/><BR/>Or, I could look at all of the intros, and pick the ones that draw me in right from the start, with their writing, setting, and setup. Then I'll play those, and see if the overall game matches my impression from the intro. Sure, it's not fair to the games that start slowly and finish strong, but that will be reflected in the final Comp judging, and I can go back and see why that might have ben the case.<BR/><BR/>Bear in mind that I'm not saying these are my overall reviews of each game. These are my reviews of the openings of the games to see which ones do a good job of intriguing me and making me want to play them more. And that's an issue with a lot of games these days -- too many games, too little free time. It might be a lot to ask of a game to draw me in only from the intro, but that's how it goes sometimes.Michael Rubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06244248736498318137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387285221768321825.post-78603534887943988552008-10-06T06:29:00.000-07:002008-10-06T06:29:00.000-07:00This is, frankly, a horrible metric. Instead of ju...This is, frankly, a horrible metric. Instead of judging the works on the merit of their content, you're specifically judging them on the merit of their marketing, which Emily Short has gone to great pains to show is a severe and chronic problem in their amateur creations.<BR/><BR/>Without a doubt, the authors do need to step back and consider their works from the context of selling them to a general audience, but these contests, really, are cooks making new batches for other cooks, and deciding the taste of the batch based on the quality of the container art and brand name is shortchanging them.Jason Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876338337658951047noreply@blogger.com