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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Suspension of Disbelief?
Being my mother’s only son in the U.S., I receive lots of weird things in the mail. This picture, whose allusions to a rather famous chapel ceiling will be more apparent as you read the rest of this post, for … Continue reading
God of What?
Hey! Let’s play a game together and discuss it as a group of friends. What do you say? A couple of blogger pals – David Carlton of malvasia bianca and Dan Bruno of Cruise Elroy – and I are joining … Continue reading
Translation Error
This month’s Blogs of the Round Table: We’re heading out of the summer movie blockbuster season and into the autumnal video game blockbuster season. What better time to take a look at the transition of intellectual property from the big … Continue reading
Ars Poetica
Despite having an extended weekend (Labor Day, for those outside of the United States), today was the only day in which I actually sat back and played some videogames. The first game saw me defeating the last two assassins in … Continue reading
Tagged literary devices, reward
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(The Royal) We Play
Don’t get me wrong, I love multiplayer. Lurve it, in fact. A memory that still brands itself in my mind is acquiring three copies of the first Diablo and playing it alongside my father (the warrior) and mother (sorcerer) with … Continue reading
Tagged community, engagement, narrative
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Joey is Hamilton
Joey Comeau writes the hilarious and sometimes heavy-soul-hitting webcomic A Softer World (with photographic help from Emily Horne). He also has various other side projects, one of which is called i am other people – joey interviews people. Comeau’s most … Continue reading
Parent Trap
Today I received this e-mail from Cap’n Perkins:I’ve got a (responsible not crazy) parent that’s interested in monitoring the types of games her 13 year old son plays. Are there any parent themed gaming blogs I can aim her towards? … Continue reading
Gaymer
As I previously posted, being noticeably gay online (or offline for that matter) isn’t necessarily a barrel of laughs. Therefore, whenever I hear someone (e.g. my boss, friends, et cetera) question why people create gay communities in game, I’ve been … Continue reading
Tagged marketing and games, sexuality
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Fanboy, meet Denis.
There aren’t too horribly many things over which I become a fanboy these days. I might squee and awww over a chocobo in a white mage outfit, but I just as easily move on and look at kittens and do … Continue reading
Tagged fanboy
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Pop Songs
Warning: Xiu Xiu (pronounced ‘shoo shoo’) is not to everyone’s taste (though this album is perhaps among their more easily accessed), but as they subvert traditional pop songs quite commonly, I feel this video is of interest to those gamers … Continue reading
Vorpal Bunny Ranch 