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The Story of a Woman: Lara Croft
I was inspired into some thoughts on this topic after reading a recent article at the Border House, which was in turn inspired by an interview posted on Kotaku with Ron Rosenberg, executive producer of...
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What Would a Realistic Male Portrayal Be Like?
How about it? While guy characters tend to have an abundance of variety compared to women, they also, ironically, probably have very little when you consider it’s just straight, white males most of the...
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Gamer Spaces
No, I haven’t turned my blog into strict social commentary. It’s just that, as they say, I “can’t unsee”. Once you become aware of something you start to recognize how much of it is around you. In my...
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The Fall of Tyrael
This article is a guest post by one of my dearest friends, Maligma. A person of color, she offered me her impressions and thoughts on Tyrael during a game session of Diablo 3. I was so struck by her...
View ArticleTurning the Tables
No Show 2012 – Deirdra Kiai – Men In Games from No Show Conference http://noshowconf.com/presentation/men-in-games/ Before I give my own thoughts on this, I want to prompt the any and all of you in...
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A Response to Earnest W. Adam’s Call to Arms
Editor’s Note: I have divided this post into pages, hopefully to make it more digestible. Some topics just can’t be compressed and summed up in a few sweeping statements and paragraphs, so I’ve...
View ArticleEscapism and Fantasy
I read a passage from a book this summer with a quote that really got the wheels in my brain turning about socialization in MMOs. The quote? But fantasy is not created from nothing; at least in a...
View ArticleAround the Sphere: The Bullrun of Women
Well …this isn’t just happening around the sphere, but I couldn’t help notice the incredible amount of bullshit that women have been challenging over the past week. Some of it’s happening in the gaming...
View ArticleThe Big Lie or How the Gaming Community Got Dirty
Malcanis over at The Mittani wrote a brilliant article last week about how the player community in EVE interacts. In it, he invoked the ideas of Hitler’s Big Lie to explain how the community deceives...
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Gun Control and Mental Health
Well, I guess that article I recently published on ethics has some relevance to the terrible news of late. Right now in the U.S. we are asking ourselves what went wrong, and what continues to go wrong,...
View ArticleMan to Man: Video Games are for __?__
Don’t let the title fool you: this is not intended strictly for men. It is, however, a question or two guys ask on the subject of sexism in gaming. Maybe I can make a trend of this by periodically...
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