TW for this post: homophobia, transphobia Because of the sensitive content, the remainder of this post comes after the jump: Welcome to a couple of whiplash weeks for queer representation and themes in pop culture, especially games; from Kung Jin and Bobby Drake right around to yesterday morning's fantabulous and short-lived Steam Greenlight game about killing… Continue reading See Something, Say Something
Category: Rants
Object Lesson
I'm gonna keep this short and sweet, ideally, because this situation has become so absurd that I'm not even sure it's real anymore. So there's a fighting game by FK Digital called Chaos Code. It came out last year-ish? Around the same time as AquaPazza. I bought it for a pretty cheap price (around $10, I think)… Continue reading Object Lesson
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
I’ll Be Watching
So, this is an open missive to the creators of HBO's Looking, about their upcoming second season of the show. Now, I know that on the eve of the premiere tonight is too late to reach them before these episodes were filmed. Consider this gesture symbolic, perhaps. Certainly, I feel like it's a necessary step for my… Continue reading I’ll Be Watching
Lewd-ology
So I've been doing everything in my power to... well, power through the end of Dragon Age: Inquisition, since I've already sunk 70 hours into it. With the sudden reversal of the games press's game-of-the-year sentiments, it seems like now is the time before my motivation evaporates. Probably the most widely-discussed critique of DA:I to make the… Continue reading Lewd-ology
Taxonomy
Hey there. So normally I use this blog for like... 80% games criticism, 15% general media criticism, and maybe 5% personal stuff I just need to talk about. This post falls in that last 5%, so if you usually come here for games stuff you're free to go. Also I wanna warn you that it's… Continue reading Taxonomy
Eat This
Okay. It's 2:30am, and this has been stewing all night, and on the heels of my GaymerX talk hitting YouTube and my expanded version of it getting into GDC, this feels like the right thing to do. So I'm gonna make a quick blog post to talk about a thing that bothers me, and perhaps pre-emptively… Continue reading Eat This
Before I Literally Explode
Sorry, guys. This isn't a very funny post, and there's not going to be any images or videos, mostly because I'm writing it to get something off my chest before something seriously bad happens. So my friend Mark Vigorito mentioned a story from Slate on Twitter earlier. Specifically, this story, titled "LGBT Microaggressions: Are We… Continue reading Before I Literally Explode
Three Short, Fat Films
I've realized I probably do too much Mega Buster charging when it comes to blog posts: I wait until I've got so fucking much to say that it pours out in a sometimes untempered flood of nonsense that people excusably stop reading 10% of the way through. So today I'm trying an experiment in just getting a… Continue reading Three Short, Fat Films
She’s Got the Look
So Bryce Mainville wrote a short piece last week about suggestions for overhauling the design of Street Fighter 4's main cast. It's a quick read, and not all that controversial; most of the suggestions are relatively mild changes, but I found the entire post thought-provoking and wanted to elaborate on my thoughts on the subject in general,… Continue reading She’s Got the Look