Comments on: The Sunday Papers

By: Pew

Pew — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:42:51 +0000

Don’t be hard on Kieron now, it’s easy to miss the prostitutes here in Holland when you are looking for a coffeeshop.

By: G

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:29:53 +0000

Also on an Amsterdam whore tip, I found the neon lights just made them look weird.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:43:20 +0000

I’m terribly disappointed in the GSW commenters. Especially the ones engaging in their own bit of self-indulgence. The ones who thought a bit too much about the author’s own musings and feelings, and decide to wag their fingers at him based on their own over-thinking.

There’s no need to think too hard about them, though. This being merely a gentler variant of a classic internet phenomenon.

By: dhex

dhex — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:48:20 +0000

With nearly naked women standing stock still in big windows. I honestly thought they were mannequins until one of them moved. Nearly shat myself in fright.

i’m glad i’m not the only one who had this happen.

i’m sure it sounds stupid if you’ve never been, but the whole storefront lady thing is unexpected, to put it mildly.

By: mister slim

mister slim — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:31:48 +0000

It may just be a quirk of the last line, but it almost seems like Parkin is quietly referencing Bioshock.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:09:17 +0000

“I dont pirate your games but… [i do pirate others]”

Helpful.

The guilt is obviously strong in these ones.

Or they’re just telling the truth. It’s pretty rare (and an interesting idea, admittedly) for anyone, least of all a games developer, to outright ask for the opinions of people who pirate their stuff, so hardly surprising a lot of people turned up. Plus last time I checked, his games were all pretty cheap, have low system requirements and offer demos, so there’s less reason to pirate them.

The site appears to be down though, unfortunately.

On the plus side, those diagrams are fantastic. I’m going to have to glibly steal them and see how many essays I can use them in before someone calls me out.

By: CrashT

CrashT — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:04:07 +0000

I always prefered “Doin’ The Do” personally.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:56:33 +0000

Alex: I stayed for 2 more days after I had them pointed out to me.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:28:41 +0000

Those GSW commenters sure are pleased with themselves.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:05:41 +0000

a-HA! If you blanked them, HOW would you KNOW that!?? ;)

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:37:05 +0000

No, I was right in the middle of it. As in, there were ones on every street leading away from it for 500m in all directions.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:31:11 +0000

I forgot to mention: the first time I went to Amsterdam, a few year back, I stayed in the red light district. I didn’t notice any sex workers for the first day and a half I was there. My walk-fast-look-directly-ahead way of moving around had somehow blanked them all.

Well, speaking as a Dutch person myself, any red light district in one of the larger Dutch cities is exactly that – a district, so they’re pretty easily avoidable, in my experience.