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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