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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Today’s the day when the amount of teleporting happening on computers anywhere will start increasing exponentially. Or in the words of Cave Johnson, “You should be designing test chambers, right now and at all times, or by God I will fire you.”
Jim Reilly forwarded news of the UConn interdisciplinary and interinstitutional initiative called < a href="http://vghvinet.ning.com/">The Video Games and Human Values Initiative, and I noted it on the Brainy Gamer blog as well. Spearheaded by the occasionally baffling Roger Travis, professor of classics at the University of Connecticut, it’s a pretty interesting idea — centering around discussion, courses, and bringing together a variety of us boring Ivory Tower types as well as any other interested parties to create a new forum for discussion:
