Okay. I have a story to tell. My therapist had to move our appointment this week to today, so I had more time than usual afterwards. His office is right next to a movie theatre, so I saw Avengers Endgame, like I mentioned before. Now, I am not an MCU fan, overall. I haven't seen… Continue reading Sturm und Drang
Category: Fan Culture
Acceptance Speech
This is gonna be a short post, but it was a discussion I had with some friends last night and I feel like the points I was making to them were broadly applicable enough that I wanted to get them down in a slightly more coherent way than a couple tweets. There's a push lately,… Continue reading Acceptance Speech
Paradoryxical
Where to begin. Although the information has been floating around gaming's social media spheres and message boards for a few weeks now, yesterday Polygon ran an op-ed by Laura K. Dale about Oryx, the titular king of Destiny's recent The Taken King expansion, being transgender. As a cis-though-not-as-cis-as-they-thought-they-were-for-30-years person, I struggled a lot with whether it was even… Continue reading Paradoryxical
Taking a Dive
So last night I was part of mostly spectated a discussion on Twitter about the game Divekick. This may or may not have been caused by statements I made earlier that day suggesting that Noah Sasso's BaraBariBall was, perhaps, a bigger success at taking a core fighting game idea and turning it into something broadly accessible by… Continue reading Taking a Dive
Duck Soup
So Polygon reviewed DuckTales Remastered and then Twitter got ahold of it and, you know, stuff has happened. Since I'm trying to keep in the habit of blogging, I figured I'd write something about it, especially after I had an extended convo with Matt Bremner about it on Twitter earlier. Matt was pretty unhappy with the review, and… Continue reading Duck Soup
Dress for Success
Alright I promised I'd leave this alone but someone made a really great comment on that last post and I'm somewhat afraid that it might not get read. Plus it's actually a somewhat different line of thinking from the "FF is dead (to me and only me)" line of thinking. Plus it's a reason for… Continue reading Dress for Success
Dispatch From the Bureau of Critical Vitriol
Okay I don't like getting into blog fights where people asynchronously duke it out without ever engaging each other, but I don't know Chris Kohler personally and I am... disinclined to battle it out with him on Twitter, 140 characters at a time, while I infuriate everyone who follows me, him, or both. So when… Continue reading Dispatch From the Bureau of Critical Vitriol
You Knew This Was Coming If You Were Paying Any Attention
Right, I've about had it. Let me set some context for this blog post: I'm listening to "Blinded by Light" -- aka Final Fantasy XIII's default battle music and riff on Lightning's character theme -- on loop while I write it. So, you know. Strap in. So this happened: To be more literal about it: ever since… Continue reading You Knew This Was Coming If You Were Paying Any Attention
A Slight Followup on “An Open Letter to Riot”
So, a few things happened, and I wanted to bring them up. First, game journo/critic/maven Patricia Hernandez gave my post a write-up on Kotaku which is humbling/gratifying. While I'm not normally a proponent of ignoring comment threads -- I think that sort of sweeps them under the rug as "not real" somehow when I firmly believe… Continue reading A Slight Followup on “An Open Letter to Riot”
Mass Effect 3: Extended Director’s Unrated Super Special Rainbow Alpha Neo Ending EX
Right. You knew it was coming, so let's just get it over with. Obviously, spoilers for good old Mass Effect 3 and the Extended Cut endings, after the jump. So, when I first saw the "traditional ending," I wrote in this space about how the ending had a few holes and a few elements I didn't like,… Continue reading Mass Effect 3: Extended Director’s Unrated Super Special Rainbow Alpha Neo Ending EX