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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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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
Let’s talk about sex, baby. Let’s talk about you and the avatar you control who may or may not share your sexuality, prowess, libido, or taste.
When the name of your blog has an allusion to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada, the key terms people use to come across it are pretty entertaining. One rather frequent hit (beyond searching for a gay version of the … Continue reading
Tagged Emergent gameplay, engagement, parenting, sexuality
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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
Virally Loading
Spore will likely do very, very well (even despite the DRM/Amazon review fiasco). At this point, I really cannot see it being a massive failure. It’s easy to get into, none of the stages are overly difficult, and it supports … Continue reading
Tagged Emergent gameplay, review
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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
Choose Your Own Lover
This is a post that has been brewing about in my head for some time, and thanks to Michael Abbott’s Narrative Manifesto and Chris’s Narratives and Interactivity Misunderstood coupled with various discussions I’ve had with friends in the past week, … Continue reading
Imagine a game with no rules
If you look at that image to the left, I would hope you can follow my train of thought in imagining that puzzle piece as a human being, requisite with four limbs and a head. Even though I spent a … Continue reading
Tagged Emergent gameplay, narrative
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Open ended
In 1994 one of my father’s friends came over to our house and brought with him a game, Elder Scrolls: Arena. We loaded it up and my entire family (yes, all of us: mother, father, brother, and I) watched in … Continue reading
Vorpal Bunny Ranch 