AIP/TLF Dragon Age Inquisition: Making Friends and Influencing People (Four)
29
Jan
Part Four of my As-I-Play Inquisition is up on TLF! Don’t worry, Sera grows on me later.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Does Gender Matter Behind the Pen?
27
Jan
So yesterday my attention was drawn to this opinion piece on Polygon about whether or not we can rely on men to write good female characters. I assume, by extension, that women must therefore be unreliable as authors of male … Read More »
AIP/TLF Dragon Age Inquisition: Not in the Hinterlands! (Part Three)
23
Jan
The next installment in my playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition is up over on TLF. I finally made it out of the Hinterlands (for the first time, although not the last), and moved on to smaller and better things.
Not the Problem You Are Looking For: “Nerds” are Not Game Culture’s Problem
22
Jan
Gaming culture – particularly in its pseudo-journalistic internet form – has problems. A lot of them. Some of them are problems it shares with every other culture on the planet and are a simple byproduct of being human. Some of … Read More »
[Redacted] – Games, Censorship, and Sexual Violence
15
Jan
One of the big news stories in gaming at the moment is about Australia’s refusal to issue classification to Devolver’s Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number due to sexual violence (link to Kotaku Australia). In Australia, media that “depict, express or … Read More »
AIP/TLF Dragon Age Inquisition – The Unending Hinterlands
12
Jan
My second As-I-Play for Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Unending Hinterlands – is up on TLF. The Hinterlands really do feel like they will never end. Ever. I will spend all the time in the Hinterlands. But not really. Although … Read More »
Put it in Reverse
8
Jan
So there’s this word that’s been bothering me quite a bit recently when it comes to posts on or about a lot of recent events. It’s “reverse.” As in, “reverse sexism,” “reverse racism,” “reverse persecution.” It bothers me because there … Read More »
New Year, Same Old Sh**
6
Jan
So yesterday I returned to the internet (for all intents and purposes) after two weeks of travel, holiday celebrations, and other things that kept me away. I did not read Twitter for two whole weeks, checked Facebook maybe once every … Read More »
TLF/AIP Borderlands 2: Failure and the Enkindling (Part Seven)
2
Jan
New Borderlands 2 post over on TLF! More chasing Roland around Pandora!