Summary:
Hi, my name is Denis. I originally started this blog over at Blogger in July 2008. I tend to write a lot about videogames, and have made various rounds of the web. Was formerly a staff writer for both GayGamer and The Border House. This blog serves to explicate my thoughts on any number of issues, not solely focused on videogames anymore (though they still make up the majority).Search:
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What be this bait? Please, you teach me.
My experience with the Xbox as a console would leave me as a Level 1 Gamer. No prestige (class) for me yet, I suppose. When I was applying to colleges, the one to which I eventually matriculated offered to fly … Continue reading
Tagged device input, difficulty
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So much depends on a red wheelbarrow
(Frank Stella’s Marriage of Reason) As I’ve mentioned, I’m replaying the Fallout series in anticipation of the third title, which (Amazon willing) will be on my doorstep the day it releases. It’s been at least six years since I last … Continue reading
Smashy Smashy
It was the end of my high school career. I had just completed an original one man show, directed another two act play, and was finishing all the remaining duties that remained as a member of the International Thespian Society … Continue reading
A New Age of Gaming
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I never completed Fallout 2. … Continue reading
Tagged acting, difficulty, Emergent gameplay, reward
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Night of the Living Gamer
The first evening Cap’n Perkins stayed with me, my friend Josh also came over and we all played Zombies!!! It was Perkins’s first time playing it with more than two players, and it had been so long since I played, … Continue reading
Tagged Cap'n Perkins, Emergent gameplay, review
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I’m so pretty!
Welcome to another entry of Fanny Fridays (shamelessly inspired by Grant Morrison’s Lord Fanny character from The Invisibles). These weekly posts examine the mirror of gender and sex that occurs between our culture and videogames. The Minx series of comics … Continue reading
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Sail the moon
In one manner or another, I’ve been reading comics since I learned to read. The confession part comes in the fact that I don’t feel I started reading really good comics until Advanced English II, my sophomore year in high … Continue reading
Think before you speak
I think that’s an adage many of us could get behind: Think before you speak. It’s not that surprising, sadly, that the term, “That’s so gay,” can be found in most spaces both on and offline; this includes videogames (oh … Continue reading
Tagged marketing and games, sexuality
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Once upon a time, in a city that was labeled with the number 2
Imagination, story, writing, narrating: these are all words that describe my earliest loves. My aspirations as a child were three-fold. I wanted to be a father, contortionist, and writer. I’ve abandoned any progress on the first two, but the last … Continue reading
Cultural Layering
Welcome to another entry of Fanny Fridays (shamelessly inspired by Grant Morrison’s Lord Fanny character from The Invisibles). These weekly posts examine the mirror of gender and sex that occurs between our culture and videogames. The last Fanny Friday, I … Continue reading
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Vorpal Bunny Ranch 