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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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Voluntary Insanity
Alcohol is pretty prevalent around the world. I recall being home during a heat wave in Europe and a German news station interviewing English people who were griping because there was a threat of low beer supply–as the weather grew … Continue reading
Body Gaming
This weekend brought to my attention a fact that I had not fully pondered, but one which I’d argued in the past: gaming is a community activity. It started Saturday. After a four hour rally against the hate legislation that … Continue reading
Tagged Cap'n Perkins, community, reward
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The Repair Bill
The first game I can recall playing that had equipment with durability is Diablo. At the time, it annoyed me more often than not and I did not see it as trying to immerse me in the world by putting … Continue reading
Survival of the Grotesque
What do you get when you combine the following elements: Cliff Steele, a man who had a race car accident and woke up with his brain transplanted into a metal body; Crazy Jane, a woman suffering from sixty-four multiple personalities, … Continue reading
Tagged Cap'n Perkins, difficulty, engagement
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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
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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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
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
Where I End and You Begin
It’s been a rather wet week in Chicago. When I first started this blog, I was intent on playing and finishing Oblivion. That didn’t happen. Once again, the game lost its interest for me, and I spoke with Cap’n Perkins … Continue reading
Tagged Cap'n Perkins, engagement, literary devices, theater
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Ambisexual Androgynes
This post is inspired by an hour long conversation with Cap’n Perkins (this was among one of many topics broached, one of which will hopefully see a dual-front post from the both of us within the next month), recently having … Continue reading
Vorpal Bunny Ranch 