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.
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!
Peace, Love, Social Justice, and the Inquisition
28
Dec
I’m a few days behind on this blog, but here’s my Christmas post – a podcast with A Play on Nerds! A little theater, a little Inquisition, and a whole lot of GamerGate.
TLF/AIP Borderlands 2: Diamond in the Rough (Six)
21
Dec
New post on Borlderlands over on TLF in which I get to meet Ellie. Ellie is awesome. And no, I haven’t given up on Inquisition. Double-fisting games for the win!
How Homogeneity Happens
8
Dec
So today a friend drew my attention to this little game of Polygons. It’s cute. There are happy squares and triangles. And apathetic squares and triangles. And sad squares and triangles. And the point is to teach us about how … Read More »
Invisible Benefits
2
Dec
Today, Feminist Frequency released a new video – “25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male” – that has almost nothing to do with Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series. I say “almost nothing” because it’s pretty clear … Read More »
Bad Hair Day
1
Dec
So this post is actually a response to a comment on my first Dragon Age: Inquisition post on TLF. The comment reads as follows: Kristin I’ve been wondering how you feel about the overtly masculine representation of women in Dragon … Read More »
AIP/TLF No One Expects the Inquisition
25
Nov
I haven’t given up on Borderlands 2, but being as much of a fangirl as I am of BioWare, I had to put it on hold to pick up Dragon Age: Inquisition. Here’s the first As-I-Play post on Inquisition over … Read More »