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Monthly Archives: October 2015

TLF: I’m Batman!: Replaying Arkham Asylum

28 Oct

Recently I’ve been replaying Arkham Asylum for class, and I was reminded about just how awesome a game it still is, even six years later. So I wrote about it on TLF.

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Clothing is not Censorship (Usually)

20 Oct

So today’s bizarre straight-white-troll objection (no, not Star Wars–this is a gaming blog, so I’m leaving that one to the film people) is to the US version of Fatal Frame. Let me begin by saying I know absolutely nothing about the game itself, … Read More »

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TLF/AIP Bastion: The Kid Falls Off (Two) – And an Announcement

19 Oct

New installment of my As-I-Play Bastion series over on TLF. In unrelated news, I got my advance copies of my book today. I have a book. It is published. It is a Real Thing. It is not at all about … Read More »

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TLF/AIP Borderlands 2: From the Ashes (Twelve)

12 Oct

So after the mad-cat incident in which Grimm destroyed my Borderlands 2 disc, and a brief hiatus, I’ve returned to Pandora thanks to a new disc from a friend for my birthday – hence, a return to the As-I-Play Borderlands … Read More »

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So I Have this Idea…

6 Oct

It’s October of 2015, we’re starting to wind down the year (amid pumpkin spice EVERYTHING), and this is something I’ve been contemplating for a couple of months now. It’s something I think has a lot of potential, and it’s something … Read More »

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TLF Memento Terra Mori: Elegy for a Dead World

5 Oct

I did a write-up on Elegy for a Dead World from Dijoban Games over on TLF, including some of my students’ responses to it (I used it in class).

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