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Dominik Johann

Dominik Johann

Dominik is from Hamburg. You can find Dominik’s tweets at and website at fucktotum.net.

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You write because you don’t know what else to do. Is the writing good? Is the writing bad? It no longer matters.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Here’s another experiment. Find a 4-year-old and ask her to draw a picture of you. At the same time, blindfold yourself and draw a self-portrait. You might be surprised to learn that through a child’s innocent eyes, you’re actually a potato with a shock of purple hair, sticks for limbs and a triangular nose that rests somewhere south of where you always imagined your neck to be.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Dominik Johann Re: Dove's “real beauty” campaign.

    April 20, 2013
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“We all have to be selfish to a certain extent, otherwise we won’t be happy. You have to define what makes you happy and brings out your passion, and pursue that in your life.”
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Dominik Johann Unwinnable's George Weidman on Lost Levels, an “un-conference” held by indie game devs and enthusiasts right next to the enormous GDC.

    April 6, 2013
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While development of Ridiculous Fishing was put on the back burner for a time, they returned to the game and fought back in the best possible way: By making the case that you can clone an idea, but you can’t clone the creativity of the artists behind it.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Dark and gritty ist nicht gleich "realistisch" - es ist nur die Farbe, in der man diese Saison aktuell seine Polygone bemalt.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Dominik Johann Rainer Sigl über das Tomb Raider-Reboot und wie Lara Croft durch einen großzügigen Anstrich aus "dark and gritty" zur selbstbewussten Kampfsexgrabräubergöttin werden soll, die wir seit 1996 kennen.

    March 9, 2013
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You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.
Estimated reading time: 11 min
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    Dominik Johann This hit way too close to home. David Cain on neurotic procrastination, perceiving mistakes as personal flaws and the deep-rooted fear of failure.

    March 6, 2013 | 1
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But the past 5 years, and the last year in particular, have been simply painful to watch. Coasting on past momentum. Failing to innovate and failing to capitalize on innovations like Kinect.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Dominik Johann Nat Brown, a founding Xbox engineer, weighs in on the project's grand failures and recent misses on opportunities.

    February 13, 2013
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Admitting that you enjoy sexist content from time to time, does not make you an asshole. But pretending that the sexist scenarios in your games are not sexist, pretending that they are in fact acceptable to everyone except to people who are inferior to you, DOES!
Estimated reading time: 14 min
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    Dominik Johann Anjin Anhut addresses sexism, recent “controversies” and complaints in the games industry as well as common concerns raised by loyalists.

    January 29, 2013
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At 1:41am GMT today I sent out an email to a bunch of gaming sites claiming to be a Microsoft employee working on the new Xbox.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Dominik Johann On tipsters, games “journalism” and leeching fake news.

    January 28, 2013
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I think my obsession with the diversity of sounds on display has overflowed into a greater appreciation for all different styles of music these days, as well, and I owe much of this reinvigorated interest in all things musical to Xtal.
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    Dominik Johann Adam Boffa on how Aphex Twin and his 1992 song Xtal have changed his life. open.spotify.com/track/5ULcHWDMA3GKd9Ib4pUSh6

    January 22, 2013
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A moral code in a game, oftentimes encoded unintentionally by its designers, is unavoidable. And when a game becomes more effective at evoking emotion (due to player choice), it also gains a higher level of social responsibility. It is a double edged sword, and one that must be wielded with care.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Dominik Johann Joe Houstin, member of Dishonored's dev team, comments on approaching violence, freedom of choice and an ubiquitous moral code embedded into video games.

    January 21, 2013
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Kultur – auch die Games-Kultur – ist ein Spiegel der Gesellschaft, in der sie entsteht. Die existente mediale Gewaltfixierung, die sich beileibe nicht nur auf das Medium Spiele beschränkt, ist jedoch nicht die Ursache für eine angeblich dadurch gewalttätiger werdende Gesellschaft. Sie ist ein Symptom für eine Gesellschaft, in der reale Gewalt verpönt ist, andere Formen der Gewalt aber allgegenwärtig und sogar systemimmanent sind.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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You take the glory; I give way to age. You: so physically well and well-meaning it makes me mentally ill—well, something does, anyway. While you fight the dark side with your light, white ways, I’m in the sarlacc pit, covered in Jabba’s vile body fluids. Will it ever end? It probably won’t, but I will. I’m pretty sure I will.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Dominik Johann Wow, Carrie Fisher is one hell of a writer. Bidding farewell to Princess Leia, the character she's condemned to let age and grey.

    January 15, 2013
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Möchte man verstehen, weshalb ein Spiel wie The Walking Dead die Kraft hat, uns in einen solchen emotionalen Tief- und Höhenflug zu versetzen, muss die vermeintliche Distanz zwischen Ich und Spielfigur in den Keller der urbanen Mythen verbannt werden.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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What Chuck Lorre wants us to find funny is not the jokes which the characters are making, it’s the characters themselves. At one point Howard mentions playing Dungeons and Dragons. There is no joke attached to this, it’s not the punchline to any set up, however it is treated as one. Howard says the words “Dungeons and Dragons” and the audience laughs.
Estimated reading time: 12 min
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