Y'ever have one of those moments where it's late at night, and you're prepping for sleep by skimming articles and such you may have missed during the day? You read something and have a bad initial reaction, i.e. "Oh what the fuck?!" and maybe you make some upset tweets or FB/Tumblr posts about it but think… Continue reading Payment Past Due
Category: Sexuality in gaming
Dick Joke
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
Say Anything
Remember a while back, a long while back, I wrote about a League of Legends champ named Taric and how I felt Riot should just make him gay already? A long time has passed since then (three years+, in fact). As I've written elsewhere, my feelings on Riot, on the situation itself, and on what I said back in… Continue reading Say Anything
Fest Be Not Proud
So, Pridefest happened at last. I heard this today from my friend Bryce, who was engaging the "oh goodness, do I play this?" internal argument. I then had the same internal argument before deciding: yeah, I should see what is going on with this. And so I picked it up, since the game is free-to-play microtransaction mobile… Continue reading Fest Be Not Proud
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
Touch Me
Where do I start. On Thursday, Robert Yang put out a game called Rinse and Repeat. It is a game that is part of Robert's growing body of work on making... well, gay sex games. However, these are not games about gay sex in the "want to watch some folks with cocks do it" way; rather, they're about… Continue reading Touch Me
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
Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)
So, let's talk about Cobra Club, the dick pic simulator by Robert Yang, for a little bit. Because the content of the game is NSFW -- and because I'm going to spoil some of the game's stuff -- you can find the rest of this post under the fold. I'm always in a weird place… Continue reading Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)
See Something, Say Something
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
From Purgatory: Poison, Birdo, and Trans Character Discourse
So I was looking through my blog drafts folder and noticed a few blog posts that I never actually finished, but had started writing at some point. I don't have significant time to finish most of them, but since Twitter expressed some interest in seeing them, I figured I'd do my best to bring them… Continue reading From Purgatory: Poison, Birdo, and Trans Character Discourse