Gaming and Games. Betrayal and Solace.
Sometimes I feel like we’re not living in reality and only a few of us see it.
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Esoteric Gaming
Extraordinary Feats of Player Practice (in Pursuit of the Perfect Game)
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Esoteric Gaming’s Role in Helping Us Come to Grips with Our Trauma in a post-COVID world
“Can esoteric gaming be the remainder of what was fucking us up in the first place? Can it provide a guide toward that place so few of us can get to? Can esoteric gaming help us push back against the monsters we’re seeing in the mirror?”
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These are not the roles you are looking for: The three facets of roles in RPGs.
The term “role”, as it relates to MMOs, bothers me because it has drifted from its original meaning in table-top RPGs,…
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The Tomb Raider Mic-Drop: How the Tomb Raider Reboot Trilogy Called Out Videogames for Imperialism and Left the Room
…if you’ll pardon my proverbial ‘French,’ the series remains imperialist as fuck.
Which is why I want to talk about what Rhianna Pratchett did at the end of Shadow.
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She’s Right Here, Sofia! Tandem Play and On-Screen Romance
“I didn’t mean to flirt with you.”
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The Guilt of Cheating
It’s 0200 and I’m tossing in my sleep. My PS Vita is sitting on the night stand next to me,
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Co-Playing with My Mom: Mega Man 2
“I’m going to play Mega Man now.” “Ok, I’ll be free in 15 min.” I distinctly remember this conversation from
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Celebrating a Portal to The Nether with Cake! Emergent Play in Minecraft
With all of the proper ingredients gathered, I baked a cake. I baked this virtual cake as my two companions
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Death of a Guild, Birth of a Child: Multi-Boxing and Self-Imposed Exile to the Prison Server in EQ2
I used to play Everquest 2 (EQ2), but like many MMOs it can be intense and tiring. People burn out.
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“I Happily Pronounce You Bonded for All Eternity”: Marriage in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV
It wasn’t long after I joined Raven’s Crown, my current guild, that I received a wedding invitation in my moogle
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