I got some thoughts, about some games journalism. And about dicks. This is your content warning: I'ma talk about dicks. I'ma try not to show dicks, but there might be some NSFW stuff in this post anyway. Hence my sticking the rest of this post about dicks behind the cut tag. Okay so. Let me start… Continue reading Dick Joke
Category: Games Journalism
Boys We Like
Recently, Polygon asked: "who is Final Fantasy 15's hottest boy?" Normally, this is the sort of content I am here for. As you may remember, some excellent friends and I did a panel on male sexualization in games and some of the problems surrounding it at Indiecade East. So an article about which dudes in an upcoming… Continue reading Boys We Like
Teachable Moment
Right. By now I'm sure many of you have heard about Michael Thomsen's WaPo review of Super Mario Maker. Suffice it to say that I found it really freaking obnoxious. Others did, too. I didn't see many people defending it, and I can imagine some reasonable ones; Tom Auxier at least had a couple reasonable explanations for… Continue reading Teachable Moment
Dismissed
Hi, Twitter. So I made this tweet earlier tonight, around dinner time-ish: https://twitter.com/laevantine/status/618580256325283840 I've got thoughts about both of these topics, obviously, but I've been skirting writing about them for various reasons. Some of them more professional, some silly (FF14 has eaten up a lot of my life lately), and some personal (I am scared… Continue reading Dismissed
Brofist Intimacy
Just this morning I said that I was pretty close to done when it came to talking about Final Fantasy XV, mostly because, quote: "It's like shouting at an incoming meteor with a megaphone asking it to politely turn around." That was maybe me being a little upset because I've had a trying morning in general,… Continue reading Brofist Intimacy
Dog and Pony Show
So as some of you may have read, yesterday Kotaku's Stephen Totilo posted a story based on an interview with Zelda mastermind Eiji Aonuma about Majora's Mask and other topics. One of said other topics was the creation and history of series NPC and running gag, Tingle. And if you follow me on Twitter? Well... https://twitter.com/laevantine/status/568148510853492736 ...you know… Continue reading Dog and Pony Show