It's wonderful when your disparate pasttimes come together and create something individual, unpredictable, and all kinds of interesting. Case in point: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds, a wonderful post from Jim Rossignol a big gaming blogger guest posting on a big architecture blog. Rossignol writes first about how gothic construction is the first point of call for a home of a nemesis, but now "the connection with the inhumanity that makes the enemy so thrilling has started to fade via over-familiarity". So he moves on, taking us on a whistle stop tour through some of the greatest...
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