“Hey baby, why all the aggro?”
And now for something completely different… I have a confession to make. I’m a huge geek. In fact, I am a gamer geek. Ah yes, from the days of table top D&D in someone’s basement in high school up unto present times, I have always loved games and being a gamer. Dragon Con? Origins? Gen [...]
...read moreFaith, without a map
Hi Feministe — it’s been too long! My non-digital life has been a little frenetic in recent months. I won’t go into an extensive personal update, but suffice it to say that I managed to lose my job, but then I landed about six other jobs (I’m still a game designer). Also, one of my [...]
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Hair-pulling and braid-weaving
Ever since the minor kerfuffle over Titan Games’ Fat Princess, I’ve been wanting to write some more criticism of games, and not just because I love attracting defensive trolls who hallucinate de jure censorship and gamer-reviling boycotts whenever something problematic about a game comes up. Fat Princess is basically a decent-sounding game concept that tragically [...]
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Well, that was bound to happen
When I read the announcement of Fat Princess a week ago, I saw the events described in this post unfolding in my minds’ eye, and the whole thing was so annoying that my jaw fell slack and I had to go read something else to avoid thinking about it. But now I feel like I [...]
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A flaming barrel of video game stereotypes, part I
Let’s see what the flaming barrel of stereotypes has for us to day, shall we kids? 1. Video games can ruin your relationship! Ah, such a classic and volatile subject. Gal feels like she and her guy aren’t spending enough time together; obvious culprit is guy’s “males only” hobby that he spends a lot of [...]
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