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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Centipedes, beetles, and hornets. Oh my!
I loathed this screen. Really, I did. From the mid to late 90s it could cause a cursing storm that would jettison me from my chair and have me come crashing back down on my keyboard; hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL is now … Continue reading
Tagged community, engagement
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O frabjous day!
I have many memories of videogames, overwhelmingly positive. While I realize the dangers of nostalgia, what I’d like to do every so oft is recall something from my gaming past and see why it held such wonder for me. Also, … Continue reading
Practice, Practice, Practice
Whenever someone finds out I’m a videogame enthusiast, I can expect one awkward question. Much like the ever-annoying What kind of music do you like? I rank What type of videogames do you play? up there as equally baffling. I … Continue reading
Tagged community, engagement, reward
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Emotionally Invested
This past weekend I went to a party celebrating my good friend Sir Iris’s (everyone loves a palindrome) twenty-fifth birthday. The central theme around the party was Sock Wrestling. Iris rents out a room in her house to various foreigners … Continue reading
Argh!
In March of 2004, fourteen other theater students, two professors, and I took a trip to London paid by my college. Because our intent on going was to enrich our knowledge of theater, six out of the seven nights we … 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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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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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
(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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Vorpal Bunny Ranch 